These New Emojis Are A Sneak Peek At What May Be Coming To Your Devices In 2024

In commemoration of World Emoji Day on July 17, Emojipedia has released a sample of emoji designs that could be approved and released to devices later this year. The Emoji Version 15.1 is expected to include 108 new characters, including skin tone and gender variations.

Notably, as pointed out by Macworld, is that Apple, Google, and Microsoft may create their own emoji designs that appear different from the ones presented, so there’s a possibility that the final look will differ from what’s seen in the samples.

Users shouldn’t expect an entire bevy of brand-new inclusions. Instead, a majority of the update will comprise variations of the following emoji: person walking, person running, person kneeling, person with white cane, person in manual wheelchair, and person in motorized wheelchair.

Interestingly, according to the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee, these emojis will be “the first full-bodied people emojis to have an explicitly-stated direction from Unicode.” At the moment, most renditions of the icons on Apple devices are left-facing by default.

Apart from the directional emoticons, highlights include smiling faces that shake their heads horizontally and vertically, a phoenix bird in flames, a lime, a brown mushroom, and a broken chain link.

There’ll also be new versions of the bust in silhouette emojis, with Unicode expanding the options to families depicting an adult, adult, child; adult, child, child; adult, adult, child, child; and adult and child.

While users scramble to choose their potential favorites, remember that the actual designs may vary based on the company behind the devices, while Emojipedia’s own sample images may be updated when the final version of Emoji 15.1 is released in September.

[via Macworld and AppleInsider, images via Emojipedia]