Apple has issued the very first iOS 16.4 beta to builders on Thursday, which features a bumper crop of latest emoji.
It’s months because the Unicode Consortium finalised the replace for this 12 months and now 31 have appeared throughout the replace that ought to hit iPhone and iPad fashions inside a couple of weeks.
The brand new emoji features a blurry shaking face, a pushing hand gesture (for the left and proper hand) and new mild blue, gray, and pink hearts. By way of new dwelling issues, there’s a moose, a donkey, a blackbird, a goose and a jellyfish.
There’s additionally a stunning hyacinth flower, an angel’s wing, a chunk of ginger root and a few peas in a pod. There’s a fan, a hair decide, maracas, and a flute. There’s additionally a Wi-Fi-like emoji and the Khanda image.
You possibly can see Apple’s interpretation of the brand new emoji (by way of 9to5Mac), that are a part of the Unicode Consortium 15.0 replace, may be seen beneath.

The iOS 16.4 replace might additionally introduce the next-generation of CarPlay, revealed at WWDC final 12 months, Apple Music Classical and in addition the lengthy promised Fintech options Apple Pay Later and the Apple Card Financial savings Account (US solely). We’ll have to attend for iOS 16.4 to be totally unwrapped earlier than seeing what Apple delivers.
There is also push notifications from Safari for the primary time, and a revamped Apple Residence structure. Apple may add iMessage Contact Key Verification that can enable folks to confirm the identification of the individual they’re messaging with.