iPhone users have new ways to express themselves.
The latest iOS 18.4 update quietly released eight new emojis for Apple devices, including a harp, a shovel, a fingerprint, a tree, a flag and a radish.
However, there is one image in particular that has captured people’s imaginations: An “exhausted” emoji that features dark under-eye bags, furrowed brows and an exasperated expression.
“I’ve never related to an emoji so much in my life,” raved one X user.
Some people went so far as to predict it will be “the most used emoji of the year,” according to the Daily Mail.
“Definitely this emoji is going to take off,” another user wrote, while someone else called it “accurate.”
Meanwhile, iPhone fans rejoiced at the inclusion of the harp emoji — mostly because it resembles the instrument on Guinness cans.
“Updating my iPhone for the first time in 3 years to get the little Guinness harp emoji,” one person wrote online.
Customers were divided over the addition of the purple splatter and a new flag, the flag of Sark, an island in the English Channel.
The inclusion of a new flag was notable because of Unicode Consortium’s flag policy — in 2022, it stopped producing new emojis for flags.
“Sark flag emoji is crazy maybe a grand total of 3 people will ever use that,” snarked one person.
“What the heck is the purple splat,” another user posted on X.
“What makes them think we need a purple splat?!?” someone else chimed in.
“I need the purple splat emoji so bad,” countered one person.
The new icons have been highly anticipated since September, when reports swirled that the eight emojis would join the ranks of the thousands of others already available on iPhones.
Meanwhile, the Unicode Consortium is reportedly working on even more emojis to allegedly be released later this year, such as a “fight cloud,” apple core, orca whale and Sasquatch.
But with Apple’s Genmoji feature, which allows users to create their own emojis with generative AI, creative customers can craft their own emoticons that don’t exist in the wild.
Users have co-opted the tool to make NSFW images, prompting people to caution others that it might soon be “censored.”
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