Apple has confirmed that its next major iPhone update arrives in April: iOS 18.4. There will be a lot of new things, but not the updated Siri that has been delayed, Apple announced. However, there will be more than half a dozen new emoji, which is always good news. This is what happens.
Apple’s latest emoji are coming soon.
A new smiling
You may have thought that there was really no new smiling faces to add to the world of emoji without being really obscure (although I would be ready for faces that have managed to transmit a Glib perplexity, a melancholic nostalgia or the lightest of disdain).
But no, there is now a face with bags under the eyes, which summarizes for me what I feel, at least at the end of a week of work. He looks remarkably tired, but strangely, weariness for me is more mentioned by heavy eyelids above the eyes, and eyebrows which point out that there is much more to do before relaxing. Oh, boredom.
Bags under the eyes, fingerprints and splashes – all soon coming to iOS 18.4.
Digital imprint
It’s a timely time: we are all concerned about identity theft, which can mean that. But it also works to suggest someone’s involvement in something. “Son (fingerprint emoji)
is everywhere.
Splashes
Modern art or a waste? You decide. Can also be used to suggest a collapse of a certain kind.
Root vegetable and leave without leaves
Racine vegetable and leave without leaves: awaiting Godot.
The first looks like a radish for me and the second suggests a dead tree in a sterile landscape. Curiously, a tree and a radish are mentioned while waiting for Godot, so maybe there is a Beckettian superposition here. Samuel Beckett was Irish, of course, so the next new offer can also have a resonance.
The harp and the shovel
Harp and shovel
Two utility images, both useful in their own way, are ready to be used literally or figuratively. “He needs to empty his (emoji splashes) soon (Emoji pellet).” The harp is a great Irish symbol, so it can be largely adopted in Ireland as soon as it was released.
Sark flag
Sark, the jewel of the Anglow Islands
Finally, there is a flag. It is for the island of Sark, which is one of the Anglo-Norman Islands. This is the framework of the brilliant novel by Mervyn Peake, Mr. Pye, and to date, it is illegal to drive a car there. Tractors, bikes and vehicles drawn on horseback only. Maybe the most subtle way to suggest to someone is a little late.
