Apple's New 'Racially Diverse' Emojis Still Divide iOS Users

Apple's New Emojis Struggle To Include Everyone Despite Claims Of Diversity
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The release of Apple's latest software update has brought with it the long-awaited "racially diverse" emojis, but problems popped up almost instantly.

The 1.4 gigabyte iOS 8.3 update included an expanded library of the company's signature emoticons, now featuring smiley faces with different skin colours and 300 brand new icons to choose from when you're WhatsApping.

However, the California tech giant's attempts at bringing its emojis into the 21st century have been met with resistance, with some saying the "Asian" skin colour was a little bit too yellow.

Users have also been confused by mysterious aliens showing up in place of their chosen emoticons - an unexplained phenomenon that is actually quite simple. When sending the new emojis to someone with an earlier version of iOS, they'll be replaced by little alien faces in a black box.

This issue has also been popping up on Twitter, but hopefully the folks at Unicode Consortium (who work with Apple to make emojis work on other devices) will have a fix out soon.

Apple have quelled a mounting social media storm of the lack of racial and sexually diverse emojis in the library with this latest update, but many still feel under-represented but the brand's icons.

Mexican food fans are also crying out for a taco emoji.

Other new emojis bundled with the update include extra flags, same-sex couples and cartoon Apple Watches.

11 Unexplainable Emojis
(01 of11)
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Wrong. It’s a NAME BADGE. We would never have guessed.
(02 of11)
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For the record, the “H” buildings are not hospitals, (that's this guy) but a "Hotel" and "Love Hotel." (Think about that for a minute... There's actually an emoji for LOVE HOTEL.) The mystery building with the red thing is apparently a Japanese post office, and those really are just a house and a house with a garden. And, much to our dismay, the “BK” building is not a Burger King or Brooklyn, but a bank. A "Blue Bank Building," to be specific. We should have known.
(03 of11)
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That little guy is a Japanese rice cracker with seaweed. But for the record, a door on a meatball clearly just leads to more meat.
(04 of11)
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The official Emoji definitions are “dragon” and “dragon face,” but their relevance to everyday text-life (and the weird horns) remains a mystery.As it turns out, these are actually two different types of camels... the one-humped Dromedary Camel, and the two-humped Bactrian Camel. #MoreYouKnow
(05 of11)
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So that first one is definitely a normal teary face. But sadly, there are no crying eyebrows here. The second one is apparently just a “disappointed but relieved face.” The next is “face with cold sweat,” and the final smiling situation is “smiling face with open mouth and cold sweat.” Um, okay. If you say so.
(06 of11)
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We were kind of close: hot springs. And, as it turns out, that grey face is not an Easter Island Statue or Squidward's house. It's called a Moyai and it represents this real statue.
(07 of11)
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This guy turns out to be a construction worker – but still no explanation for his slumber.
(08 of11)
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The party line is “meat on bone,” but we still think this looks like the thingie in Pebbles Flintstones’ hair.
(09 of11)
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*deep breath* Here we have “high-speed train,” “high-speed train with bullet nose,” “light rail,” “metro,” “train” (as in plain ‘ole), “tram,” “station,” and “mountain railway.” Not pictured: the absolutely superfluous 9th train variation, "steam locomotive."With regard to our airborne friends: only the first is an aerial tramway; the other two are “suspension railway” and “mountain cableway,” respectively. So we weren't TOO far off.
(10 of11)
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Wow. So, it’s a “moon-viewing ceremony,” for the Japanese Otsukimi harvest celebration. It all makes so much sense now! Color us myopic.
(11 of11)
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This is a “pine decoration,” popularly displayed for the Japanese New Year, (SEE?!) but we still think it kinda looks like Emerald City.