

Especially when there's more than one person shown in an emoji. Using pre-rendered objects scaled down into tiny bitmap images, some emojis on iOS almost look like photographs.ĭrawbacks of this approach include large file sizes, and lack of flexibility when it comes to combinations of skin tone or gender. 🔴 = Non-standard /PbzAhOCCc8- Emojipedia April 26, 2021 And if that seems like a strange way to phrase it, it's worth looking at why this was possible in 2021, but would have been impractical barely a year ago.Īs well as new couples from Emoji 13.1 ( ) the latest iOS includes 224 additional emojis:

Most of these were approved by Unicode Consortium as part of Emoji 13.1, but some Apple just decided to support because they could. IPhone users with the recent iOS 14.5 update might have noticed just how many new couples there are in the list.

The way Apple's emoji font works has seen an upgrade in recent times, with new functionality paving the way for more emoji combinations than ever.
