Next OS X Update Could Introduce Customizable, Multi-Cultural Emojis

Emojis are a fun way to express certain emotions when you are sending text messages. Given that sometimes the tone of our voice can’t be conveyed over text, emojis are a good way to do that, or at least attempt to do that. There are plenty of emojis to choose from at the moment, but could it be that Apple is thinking of offering emoji customization?

Now prior to this, Apple had made a promise that in the future, they would be offering users more culturally diverse emojis and according to the folks at MacRumors, there is evidence found in OS X 10.10.3 which has been recently seeded to developers that Apple could indeed be working on such a feature in the upcoming update.

As you can see in the screenshot above, OS X 10.10.3 brings about the ability for users to further edit emojis. At the moment there is nothing to show yet but there are some placeholder icons to indicate that the feature is coming. For example in the “man” emoji, there is a dropdown menu in which additional skin tones can be chosen.

The Unicode Technical Committee has also recently approved the skin tone modifiers for draft status in Unicode 8.0 which has also been approved for beta release. No word on when we can expect these skin tone modifiers to be introduced, but it looks like they are coming – anyone else excited/pleased by this?

Tyler Lee
Categories: Apple, Computers
Tags: OS X