Over 200 new emojis will be coming to your smartphone in the next year, including a diverse collection of skin tones and LGBTQ+ icons. Unicode’s latest announcement has unveiled 217 brand new emoji sequences for your mobile device.
Of these new additions, 210 are much needed skin tone variants which will give icons a little more diversity. These new range of diverse skin colours are most notably for multi-person icons which will include couples featuring hearts or kissing.
This update will include same-sex couples in its feature. The new 13.1 update will also include seven original new emojis which have been described as “heart on fire”, “mending heart”, “woman with beard”, and a gender-neutral “person with beard”.