The emoji that we use on our smartphones are designed by Google -or the manufacturer of your model-, yes, but they are based on Unicode. Every year, the Unicode Consortium releases a new version defining which emojis Google and the others should create for us, the users. And the latest version is Emoji 12.1, a 'review' of Emoji 12 that brings nothing less than 168 news.
The funny thing about this version, emoji 12.1, is that it is effectively not a new version to use but a 'upgrade' of Emoji 12. Therefore, although it includes 168 new features, they are not really 168 totally new emojis but Variaciones, In its great majority. Once again, the Unicode Consortium has focused on faces and representations of people, and they have created more variants of all of these. 'characters'. Most are new hair styles: redheads, curly hair and baldness. In addition to these, the characters with White hair, and there are some other new features.
Emoji 12.1 brings new hairstyles and genderless characters
Along with the new hair styles we mentioned earlier, Emoji 12.1 also debuts genderless options for role emojis like singer, astronaut or pilot. And from now on this will be the default version of said emoji as long as a gender is not specified from the available variants of the emoji. And on the other hand, the farmer emoji has been updated, which no longer holds a pitchfork in his hand but a piece of wheat.
The problem with these releases, of new versions of Emoji, is that they take in reaching users. Because first comes the official launch of the Unicode Consortium, which comes months after proposals, approvals, reviews, and a fairly long process. And then that's when manufacturers, once they know about this final update, begin to create their own designs and implement them on their mobile devices.
The normal thing would be that they arrive with an update of Android 11, but it could be even with the next version of the operating system. And taking into account the pace of device updates, this implies that some of us will never enjoy them, and others will have to wait months. Fortunately, applications such as WhatsApp They have their own emoji keyboard, something that also happens on Twitter and in a few other applications that we usually use on our mobile devices with Android operating system.
Remember there is a trick to put the iOS emojis on Android.