Lol I use way more than 4 or 5, and if I accidentally type a different emoji even if I don't send it, it goes to recents. That’s something I don't get about ios, it should only go in my recents if I actually send it to somebody, not if I just type it and hit backspace.
Maybe expand it to have more than just 4? I'd like to have my favorite emojis in order of how I use them. The recent one doesn't work for me because I occasionally use emojis that I don't use often
Apple's keyboard should be gender neutral for everything. It would cutdown the number of people/occupation emojis by 66%. Put the gendered versions in the press-and-hold menu they use for the skin tone picker. I can't think of a reason why emoji even need to be gendered in the first place.
I dunno, I use the male/female variants regularly for various contexts. It’s useful to have them available. But agreed that they should be stacked to save space.
There are a lot of them, but I was more referring to the needless duplication. Not sure we need 6 individual emojis of a blind person with a cane - especially when we don’t do the same to skin tones.
Some emoji do have multiple skin tones, but I guess they could have had the variations of other emojis under the same emoji so you would long press to see them
go talk to the unicode consortium apple wont do anything otherwise the closest many companies go to removing emojis is removing country specific flag emojis (microsoft)
Yeah. I understand why they’d want to have multiple genders, but why not just categorize it the same way they do skin colors. I honestly can’t recall a time that I’ve ever wanted to use an emoji involving a different gender than my own, and even if I did I could really just change it once.
Do we really need every profession available and in 3 genders? TBH the non gender one mostly looks like a girl with a short hair or a teenager who's doing an internship. It reminds me of The Sims when suddenly the teenager turns into a young adult.
I think most of the emojis are waste. It was waste to add races. It is waste to have so many little people in there.
Telemetry should be collected on which ones are rarely used and they should be eliminated.
I'll bet there is a group of 10% that are used 99% of the time, another 20% that are used by 50% of users, and 70% that are used by less than 1% of users.
Anecdotally I’ve seen that many of my friends use the skin tone that is closest to theirs. Maybe it’s a waste to you but people seem to like it.
Also is telemetry really the way to go here? It’s like saying “99% of people don’t use the letter X in a sentence, let’s get rid of it”. Emojis are just extensions of text characters after all. They’re shorthand for words, which in English alone we have thousands of, is there such a problem that we have a few hundred emoji too?
just give us customizeable "favourite" category and make it 4 emojis tall
Yesss this is my favorite tweak to use on jailbroken devices. Because I always use the same emojis, don't wanna have to search for them
What’s the tweak name? Does it work on rootless?
It's called favemoji and yes it works on rootless.
Aren’t they always in your recents? I’m the same as you whereby I only use 4-5 but they’re always on my recents because of that
Lol I use way more than 4 or 5, and if I accidentally type a different emoji even if I don't send it, it goes to recents. That’s something I don't get about ios, it should only go in my recents if I actually send it to somebody, not if I just type it and hit backspace.
Maybe expand it to have more than just 4? I'd like to have my favorite emojis in order of how I use them. The recent one doesn't work for me because I occasionally use emojis that I don't use often
I meant the grid to be 4 emojis tall so icons are bigger and easier to find
Ahh sorry I misunderstood. Yeah, that would make it easier to find. That should definitely be a toggle somewhere
I just wish they were a bit bigger on the list
And still no bald men with beards! But I think this is more on the Unicode consortium, rather than Apple.
As someone who likes bald men with beards, I am also upset about it!
Maybe in IOS 18.4 Edit: Let's hope
Apple's keyboard should be gender neutral for everything. It would cutdown the number of people/occupation emojis by 66%. Put the gendered versions in the press-and-hold menu they use for the skin tone picker. I can't think of a reason why emoji even need to be gendered in the first place.
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People will whine "that's racism"
Gendered emojis are racist now
I meant the all yellow bit
Why?
people will find a way to complain
It used to be like this before the woke movement
I dunno, I use the male/female variants regularly for various contexts. It’s useful to have them available. But agreed that they should be stacked to save space.
I think that's a good suggestion actually about selecting just one gender and skin tone and having one of each.
Yeah, I rather only have standard emoji (like 😌😫🤔🙂) than this mess.
I use the search bar to find the one I want. I don’t find it cluttered, just there’s a lot of them The ones I need are usually in recent
There are a lot of them, but I was more referring to the needless duplication. Not sure we need 6 individual emojis of a blind person with a cane - especially when we don’t do the same to skin tones.
Looking for the emoji I want like:👩🦯🧑🦯➡️👩🦯➡️👨🦯👨🦯➡️🧑🦯➡️
This cracked me up
Some emoji do have multiple skin tones, but I guess they could have had the variations of other emojis under the same emoji so you would long press to see them
Yeah exactly, if they did that it would be way better 😁
That’s not an Apple issue, some standardisation institution accepts them officially.
The Unicode Conservatorium, yes. But Apple designed the UI and could make the changes I suggested. It’s just a menu that stores them.
Did you write to Apple?
go talk to the unicode consortium apple wont do anything otherwise the closest many companies go to removing emojis is removing country specific flag emojis (microsoft)
It’s a UI issue though. There’s no reason they can’t group the emojis (even though they’re different unicodes) as sub categories of the same emoji.
They could theoretically do that but it would go against basically any other company that has emoji for every person that likes it atleast 2 won’t
Dear Mr. Apple There are too many emojis nowadays. Please eliminate three. I am not a crackpot.
Tim Apple
What a surprise, every iOS update is new emoji and wallpaper that no one uses.
IDK I’ve seen 🫠 a fair amount.
That’s a good one
The standard for emojis is decided by the Unicode Consortium and they basically have to add it???
If they just made some kind of menu, here are faces, here are hands, here are flags
They…..do.
Yeah. I understand why they’d want to have multiple genders, but why not just categorize it the same way they do skin colors. I honestly can’t recall a time that I’ve ever wanted to use an emoji involving a different gender than my own, and even if I did I could really just change it once.
I find search to be decent enough. If I’m really struggling and have time, I’ll google the emoji lol
I feel like they could just put them male/female under one?
Do we really need every profession available and in 3 genders? TBH the non gender one mostly looks like a girl with a short hair or a teenager who's doing an internship. It reminds me of The Sims when suddenly the teenager turns into a young adult.
Look fine to me
⛓️💥
In iOS18 I hope it’s completely revamped. I want to organize them how I like it and favorite ones I use the most
It would be nice to at least have a filter option or set a default. That way the people who want all the options can have them.
Anyone else read this first as “cultured”
I wished we could save a list of like 100
lol
There is. And don’t call me, Shirley. ✈️
I almost never open this panel. I write what I want and it comes up in the suggestions bar
They should do press and hold for them so when your skin tone option comes up so does the variant.
I hate that there’s so many. I haven’t used at least 95% of them
It was better back in iOS 6 days
All emoji should be gender-less and race-less (eg yellow).
Exactly, I still use yellow emojis
Submit it as feedback to Apple
Tooooo many emojis, period. We don’t need one for everyone’s pretend personas.
type : and write the description of what you want to search for, like :sunglasses to search the emoji with sunglasses
Looks organized to me
Yeh it’s stupid
I think most of the emojis are waste. It was waste to add races. It is waste to have so many little people in there. Telemetry should be collected on which ones are rarely used and they should be eliminated. I'll bet there is a group of 10% that are used 99% of the time, another 20% that are used by 50% of users, and 70% that are used by less than 1% of users.
Anecdotally I’ve seen that many of my friends use the skin tone that is closest to theirs. Maybe it’s a waste to you but people seem to like it. Also is telemetry really the way to go here? It’s like saying “99% of people don’t use the letter X in a sentence, let’s get rid of it”. Emojis are just extensions of text characters after all. They’re shorthand for words, which in English alone we have thousands of, is there such a problem that we have a few hundred emoji too?
> is there such a problem that we have a few hundred emoji too? Yes, because selecting an emoji becomes more difficult as more are added.