When iOS 11.1 is released at some point in the future — my guess is in the next few weeks [UPDATE: released on Oct. 31] — one of the new features will be the addition of new emoji. Apple recently previewed high-quality versions of some of the upcoming new emoji. In case you are curious what is coming soon, take a look.
New faces include face with symbols over mouth, face with monocle, crazy face, and shushing face:
New food includes pie, broccoli, takeout box, and dumpling:
New animals include giraffe, hedgehog, cricket, and sauropod (a dinosaur with a long neck, tail, and four thick legs, such as a Brontosaurus):
New accessories include coat, gloves, billed cap, and scarf:
New lifestyle emoji include man climbing, curling stone, sled, and woman in steamy room:
New mystical emoji include mermaid, mage (wizard), woman fairy, and man vampire:
Apple will also add gender-neutral emoji, including a child, adult, and older adult, as well as an orange heart:
Another one coming is the American Sign Language gesture for “I love you”:
The 28 emoji images shown above are just a small sample of the new additions. According to Emojipedia, there should be 239 new emoji in iOS 11.1. A larger number of those are variations on a central theme; for example, many emoji come in two genders and five different skin tones. We saw an example of that last year in iOS 10.2 when Apple gave us 12 different versions of the judge emoji:
Other emoji coming in iOS 11 include face with hand over mouth, bearded person, breast-feeding, zombie, flying saucer, and coconut. And also, there is a new face emoji with one eyebrow raised, which many folks call the Stephen Colbert emoji. Colbert discussed it back in March of 2016, as you can see in this video:
The head explode emoji is also part of this update.