Apple and Google present the new Emoji emoticons that you will use in WhatsApp

July 17th is World Emoji Day, and there is no better way to celebrate than by meeting the new members that will arrive to the already extensive collection of emoticons. These symbols help us on a daily basis to express different situations, feelings or even all kinds of objects, foods, animals, professions and moods without words. Even so, they are not enough, and the Unicode consortium has just presented its thirteenth edition with a few more proposals that will end up reaching WhatsApp, Twitter, Instagram Stories and all the services and applications that make use of them.

Emoji emoticons are standardized so that everything is understandable and has the same values ​​and readings anywhere in the world. To do this, a consortium of companies such as Google and Apple participate in the voting and acceptance of specific proposals. This is how the Unicode Consortium arose, where year after year new proposals and elements are collected. Now we know what will arrive in the coming months on both Android and iOS.

More inclusive and diverse

The dominant trend in the collection of new Emoji is inclusiveness That is why we can see icons that represent people with different abilities of all kinds: from people in wheelchairs, to paraplegics, through an icon of an ear with an adapter for the deaf or even prosthetic limbs. All this with the same style, colors and expressiveness as the rest of the Emoji emoticons well known to all.

Along with them there is also more diversity in showing race and skin color of different human icons. Something that applies to all kinds of couples, where the variety of gender and skin color increases.

More Emojis, more expressiveness

But not everything is inclusion and diversity. Beyond giving representation and visibility to all groups, Emoji emoticons also continue to expand their variety of expressions and elements to represent That is why it now appears a new face that yawns, a one-piece swimsuit, or animals like the flamingo and the orangutan. Among many other elements.

And that's what these icons are about, being able to show anything in our conversations and communications over the Internet.Thus, in addition to showing if we are happy and sad, we can show more states. Or even be much more specific and concrete when saying if we are going to a Christian church or a Hindu temple. Questions that until a few months ago were not even possible. Hence the importance of the Unicode Consortium continuing to review, approve, and extend the existing collection of Emoji-style emoticons.

Personalization: Coming Soon

Another important point that is being talked about on this World Emoji Day is personalization In fact, the Unicode consortium has already opened the door, on his official blog, to a tool with which to customize non-human Emoji emoticons. This would also enhance the representativeness and visibility of many elements that, although they are represented in the current collection, do not have the necessary varieties.For example, you could choose the color of a cat's fur. Or specify if the content of a crystal glass is red wine or white wine. And so with the rest of the elements of the collection.

At the moment it is something that is being considered for the Unicode 13 collection that could arrive in 2020. Without official confirmation.

When will they arrive

Of course, for now we will have to wait to enjoy these new collections. For its part, the adaptation of Unicode by Apple is officially announced for the fall of this year. Something that could happen next to iOS 13 In Google they have not been so clear, but it is expected that with Android Qin its final version land all these Emojis with the style of the big G.

Of course, to be able to enjoy all of them in applications like WhatsApp we may still have to wait a few more months. So you just have to be patient.