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Preview of new Emojis Apple (Photo: Apple)

In the honor of World Emoji Day, Apple unveiled over 70 new emojis featuring a handful of new hair styles, d & # 39; 39 animals and food for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac The characters, which will be deployed with the update of iOS 12 later this year, include red, gray and white hair options. curly as well as a new emoji for people cha uves.

Animal lovers will enjoy new additions like kangaroo, peabad, parrot, and lobster, while gourmets can get their friends a mango, a lettuce, a cupcake or a moon cake.

Glimpses of the new Apple Emojis (Photo: Apple)

on the approved characters in Unicode 11.0, created by Unicode Consortium, the non-profit group that decides on the adoption of new emojis.

The announcement comes just before the fifth annual World Emoji Day, created by Jeremy Burge. , founder of Emojipedia, an online catalog of emojis

The psuedo-holiday celebrated every year on July 17 – the date indicated on the emoji calendar – is intended to "promote the use of emoji and to spread the" enjoyment that they bring to all those that surround us ", according to the Burge website.

Burge said that he thinks people will be more excited about the new ha style options because there has been a demand increased for more inclusive emojis

"As soon as you include people in n & rsquo; Any emoji that you are going to have, rightly, more people who want emojis that look like them, "said Burge. "These will always be the most popular, the inclusive."

Although he is partial to the smiling face upside down, Burge said that he has no favorite emoji. He also hopes that Apple will present a sausage emoji to bolster their breakfast options.

While the holidays were starting to small, more and more companies involved in the emoji scene are beginning to celebrate, while people often start parties. emoji themed cakes.

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Burge believes that part of the reason why emojis have become so ubiquitous is simply due to human nature.

"People want to express themselves … funny and we like to be empathetic," he said. "It's much more humane to have emoji with whom to send [texts] . "

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