There will be no new emoji in 2021 because of the coronavirus
Photo: Emojipedia If historical patterns are anything to go by, new versions of Android and iOS 📱 will launch this year, and they’ll include new additions to the emoji tool set. Included in the new Emoji 13.0 set are essential pictograms, like people wearing tuxedos, the cockroach, a bell pepper, and a plunger. Finally. 🙌 You’re going to have to savor these new emoji, however, because they are likely to be the last ones we get until 2022.
Under a normal timeline, Unicode finalizes new additions of the emoji collection in March, and then technology companies would incorporate them into products released later in the year, like the new version of iOS released every September. For 2021, however, the timeline has been bumped six months, meaning that Unicode 14.0 won’t be locked 🔒 until September of next year. Once that is settled, tech companies can then incorporate it into their operating systems.
The exception to this concerns emoji sequences. To get a little technical, some quote-unquote new emojis are not actually new. Two emoji with different skin colors are not a two unique characters but an existing emoji combined with two different skin-tone modifier characters. These are easier to put into new software releases because they rely on existing characters already approved by Unicode.
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