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# Emoji iOS 8.3
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/emoji-ios-8-3/
- Published: 2015-04-09T12:24:00.000Z
- Updated: 2016-06-16T20:16:46.000Z
- Description: Apple have released a more socially diverse range of emoji
- Author: Maks Fus Mickiewicz
- Tags: Seeds, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:25

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**Apple have released a more socially diverse range of emoji**   
  
The new representations come as part of iOS 8.3’s bid to make the service more universally accommodating. The LGBT community is now semi-catered for with gay and lesbian couples and various configurations of families with same-sex parents. Single figure emoji now give the option to select skin tone - the stock shade being Lego man yellow.   
  
Emoji and stickers have provided a shorthand that can be practised around the world. As our schedules get tighter, often a grumpy face couldn’t provide a more succinct message. In the US and Europe emoji and stickers are primarily used by those under 30, but in Japan they’re already common currency among all age groups, and a shift in behaviour is seeing an ever increasing range of people in the West adopt visual communication. It’s no surprise then that Apple are increasing our symbolic vocabulary.  
  
[Hi Art](https://www.prote.in/en/feed/2015/03/hi-art?ref=protein.xyz) is an app-based service that lets you create ginger and mixed-race emoji, meme-like stickers or reference art works in a matter of minutes, instead of waiting months for Apple to update its IOS servers.   
  
A growing number of forward thinking corporations are responding to calls from minority groups for representation. Apple having woken up to this will go a long way to making these groups feel more connected with the brand.

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