Google on Friday last week refreshed its emojis to be more universal and authentic, just before World Emoji day.
The Alphabet-owned company announced it was refreshing about 992 of its emojis to make them more “universal, accessible and authentic”.
Jennifer Daniel, Creative Director Emoji mentioned these refreshed designs would be coming to Google’s other platforms including Android, Gmsi, Chat, Chrome OS, and YouTube.
A typical redesign is the face mask emoji, Google has refreshed the once sick-looking face to a smiling-looking face with eyes open.
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The 😷 emoji originated in Japan, where people regularly wore masks even before the global pandemic. Google says it is now a universal way of showing kindness to others.
Wearing a face mask does not only protect you, both others when you are down with the virus.
Android 12 will receive all of these emojis when it becomes available this fall. All apps that support Appcompat will be immediately get the new emojis.
This is regardless of how old your phone is or whether your favorite messaging app updates.
If you can wait till the fall, starting this month users will be able to send 📨 and receive 📩 emoji in Gmail and Chat without fear they will appear broken 💔.
A lot of tech companies have refreshed their emojis sometime past. Apple changed the gun emoji to a water gun after the gun crisis in the United States.
These changes reflect the dynamic culture and cultural shifts on how the actual real-life items have been used.
World Emoji day was July 17th, even Microsoft refreshed the Clippy emoji across its Office 365 apps and its operating system.
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