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All the new emoji in iOS 13.2

Including gender-neutral options

Including gender-neutral options

Image: Emojipedia
Jay Peters
is a senior reporter covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme.

Apple released iOS 13.2 earlier today, and the update includes 398 new emoji. There’s a bunch of brand-new ones (I love the otter) as well as emoji to represent people with disabilities, gender-neutral emoji (following in Google’s footsteps), and a new way to select the skin colors of each individual in the holding hands emoji.

Here are images of all of the new emoji, from Emojipedia:

All of the new emoji in iOS 13.2.
All of the new emoji in iOS 13.2.
Image: Emojipedia
All of the redesigned emoji in iOS 13.2.
All of the redesigned emoji in iOS 13.2.
Image: Emojipedia

And here’s a closer look at some of the gender-neutral options:

Image: Emojipedia

Here’s a video of the nice new interface to pick the skin colors of each person in the holding hands emoji:

Full disclosure: I personally submitted the proposals to the Unicode Consortium to recommend the creation of the yawning face and waffle emoji, but I was not involved in their implementation or final designs.

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