World Emoji Day: iOS and Android to add new emojis

Today is World Emoji Day, and we all know that emojis are a different form of communication than images and text. On today's date, we have so many emojis available on Android, iOS and others to express our moods easily without using words. On World Emoji Day, Both platforms will also be getting a ton of new accessibility-focused emoji.

Apple has advertised the upcoming emojis in a post on its newsroom website. The new emoji list to bring more diversity to emojis in addition to some emojis that add to the popular categories - Food, Animals, Activities and Smiley Faces. Other emojis to be part of iOS 13 are one-piece swimsuit, new food items like a waffle, falafel, butter and garlic, and new animals like the sloth, flamingo, orangutan and skunk. Fifty-nine new emoji designs will be coming to iPhones, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch with the upcoming free OS update.

Holding-hands emoji got the major update, which now has different skin tone combinations with genders, offering users 75 possible combinations on the whole. For the disability themed emojis, Apple will introduce a new guide dog emoji, an ear with a hearing aid, wheelchairs, a prosthetic arm and a prosthetic leg.

Google says as of Android Q, any Emoji that do not gender-specific in its emojis like "police officer" or "person getting a haircut" and remaining 51 will now default to a "gender-ambiguous design." If you prefer, you'll be able to press-and-hold an emoji to select a "male" or "female" presentation.