According to Emojipedia, up to 69 new emoji characters including a Flying Saucer, Older Adult, T-Rex, Woman with Headscarf and a Giraffe could soon be making their way over to iOS now that Unicode 10 has officially been released.
The mock-ups (shown below by Emojipedia) are styled to look like Apple’s own emoji designs and will be given to Apple for them to choose which ones make the cut and are baked into iOS 11.1 or 11.2 later in the year. Other potential additions that don’t appear in the Emojipedia mockups include flags for England, Scotland, and Wales; a man and woman sitting in the lotus position; a man and woman rock climbing; a zombie; male and female genies, and many more.
Once finalise this summer, Apple’s software team will need to design each emoji from scratch to meet their own rules and guidelines before they are ready to be released to iOS and macOS users.
Selection of the 69 new Emoji characters. | Via Emojipedia.
Emojipedia said…
Emoji 5.0 is the complete list of new emojis planned for release in mid-2017. – This update is currently in draft status, and currently includes emojis from Unicode 10.0, as well as flags for England, Scotland, Wales, and gender variations for characters such as Mage, Vampire, and Person Climbing.