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Apple has unveiled new updates that bring advanced AI and emoji tools to its iPhone and iPad devices. Released on Wednesday, Dec. 11, iOS 18.2 ... with styles such as Animation and Illustration.

Here’s my suggestion: Apple should take the magnification animation it already employs on the text keyboard ... loupe (for moving the insertion point) to scrub through emoji. The only caveat here is ...

Please also consider subscribing to WIRED For decades, choosing an emoji has been constrained to ... It launched with iOS 18.1 and iPadOS 18.1, but Genmoji specifically launched in iOS 18.2 ...

Apple has a lot to prove after its last update, iOS 18.3, fell flat due to its lack of AI smarts. Add to that a recent dip in ...

SoftBank, a Japanese wireless carrier, created the first known emoji set in 1997. When Apple launched its iOS 2.2 in November 2008, it had to create its own emoji so any emoji sent from SoftBank ...

The Messages app in iOS 18.2 now gives you all sorts ... but you won't be subjected to the animation repeating. You can add any emoji or sticker as a tapback in Messages Sometimes words are ...

As is customary at this time of the year, Apple has updated iOS and iPadOS with new emoji. The emoji additions include two new shaking faces, a phoenix, a lime slice, a brown mushroom, and a broken ...