17th of July is universally celebrated as World Emoji Day.
Fun fact! That is the reason why the calendar emoji in your iPhone shows the date 17 July.
To mark this year's Emoji day, Apple has come up with a cool set of gifts for its users. A preview of 70 new emojis!
Being a part of the Unicode Consortium, the organisation that approves emojis worldwide, Apple has proven yet again that they have not exhausted their creative vault by bringing the coolest of emojis that we never knew we needed.
There will be more than 70 emoji in total coming to iOS 12 later this year, including emoji to represent redheads, people with grey hair, and no hair — all available in a variety of skin tones. This new batch of emojis has the coolest hairstyles- from silver, to fiery-headed ginger, to fully bald.
Joining the roster also includes a pair of masked superheroes, an ominously green chemical test tube, a tennis ball, a Nazar amulet (which people use to ward off the evil eye), a Chinese mooncake, a multicolored parrot, a lobster, a mango, a head of lettuce, and an infinity symbol.
Apple’s traditional smiley faces will get an update, with new “cold face,” “party face,” “pleading face,” and “face with hearts” symbols.
To go alongside the announcement, Apple also unveiled emoji-fied headshots of its executives on its website.
