In the latest iOS 17.4 update, Apple removed the family emoji, which had existed for more than 10 years, and replaced it with more classic emojis representing family members. However, this move by Apple was not found very meaningful by users who were aware that it always progressed by improving its actions.
Emojis that are renewed and improved with most updates, This time he took a step back and simplified a lot, so to speak. Apple’s approach has been a matter of curiosity.
So why Apple introduced the family emoji? replaced it with simpler emojis?
In fact, this change was the result of a process that started in 2015.
Unicode Consortium, an organization responsible for creating industry standards for emoji. He decided to make the characters more well-rounded. It would make much more sense for the emojis to include 5 different skin options rather than just yellow.
This change was pretty easy to implement as the yellow skinned emoji needed 5 additional variations. But Things get complicated when it comes to family emoji.
With the addition of same-sex parents in 2015 and single parents in 2016 The total number of family emojis increased to 25. Then in 2019, when wheelchair-like emojis started getting skin tone variations, people wondered why this wasn’t implemented in the family emoji.
Apple and the Unicode Consortium are at an impasse at this point.
When all skin variations are included for each family member approximately 52,000 combinations would be obtained. Displaying this in the emoji section would cause confusion and it would be almost impossible to search for the desired emoji.
On the other hand, Microsoft A personalized emoji generator in 2016 He tried to solve this problem with and allowed users to personalize the skin tone of each family member.
However, sending this emoji to users on non-supporting platforms corrupts the emoji and replaces it with a string of individual emojis It appeared as.
Likewise, in 2017, Facebook took a different approach and created 125 new emojis that added skin tone differences to each family.
But even this is still meant that many races had no family options and the company began to receive criticism for this reason. So Apple took the opposite approach to solving this problem, removing skin tone and gender entirely rather than including skin tone variations.
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