Apple is previewing a selection of new emoji coming this fall to celebrate World Emoji Day. Apple reveals their latest designs bringing in more diversity to the keyboard, alongside fun and exciting additions to popular categories of food, animals, activities and smiley faces.

Following Apple’s proposal to the Unicode Consortium last year to introduce more disability-themed emoji, a new guide dog, an ear with a hearing aid, wheelchairs, a prosthetic arm and a prosthetic leg will be available in the emoji keyboard. Celebrating diversity in all its many forms is integral to Apple’s values and these new options help fill a significant gap in the emoji keyboard.

In total, fifty-nine new emoji designs will be available this fall with a free software update for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch. Thousands of emoji are currently available, including emotive smiley faces, gender-neutral characters, more professions, various clothing options, food types, animals, mythical creatures and more. New emoji are created based on the approved characters in Unicode 12.0.

For more on this and other emoji, check Apple's full press release here.

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