A pregnant MAN features among the 37 new emoji coming to iPhones in Apple’s iOS 15.4 update
Apple’s own designs for the 37 new emoji have been revealed by Emojipedia
It says ‘pregnant man’ and ‘pregnant person’ are more gender inclusive options
They arrive with iOS 15.4 which is in beta testing and due for a full release spring
Unicode Consortium approved the full list of 37 new emojis back in September
From a pregnant man to a biting lip, the 37 new emojis coming to iPhones have finally been revealed.
Apple’s own designs for the new emojis are already available in a beta test of iOS 15.4 software update released on Thursday, prior to its full release in the spring.
The pregnant man and pregnant person recognise that ‘pregnancy is possible for some transgender men and non-binary people’, says Emojipedia, which is part of the California-based Unicode Consortium, the central bank of all approved emoji.
But the two new pregnant emoji could also potentially be used as ‘a tongue-in-cheek way to display a food baby’, a very full stomach caused by eating a large meal.
iOS 15.4 also includes seven brand new smiley emojis, including Melting Face, Dotted Line Face, Face Holding Back Tears and Face with Diagonal Mouth.
Other additions include a motorcycle tyre, a slide, a disco ball, a troll with a club, coral, kidney beans and a low battery.
The Unicode Consortium officially signed off candidates for the next emoji release, version 14.0, last September.
But companies including Apple, Google and Microsoft apply stylised versions of the consortium’s designs to their own operating systems.
Apple’s were revealed by Emojipedia in a blog post published on Thursday, the same day iOS 15.4 arrived in beta.
Beta testing involves letting a small group of people use a product in a to uncover any bugs or issues before a general release.
‘Since 2019, vendors have been making considerable efforts to offer all people emojis with three different gender variants – one “Man”, one “Woman”, and a non-gender-specifying “Person”,’ said Keith Broni at Emojipedia.
‘This latest Apple beta update continues this trend by adding two new gender neutral people emojis in the form of Person with Crown and Pregnant person, as well as adding a new Pregnant Man emoji.’
Following some controversy in September when version 14.0 emoji candidates were officially signed off, Jane Solomon, Emojipedia’s ‘senior emoji lexicographer’, authored a blog post entitled ‘Why is there a pregnant man emoji?’
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A pregnant MAN features among the 37 new emoji coming to iPhones in Apple’s iOS 15.4 update