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  "textContent": "The fourth iOS 26.4, iPadOS 26.4, and macOS Tahoe 26.4 betas that Apple provided to developers today introduce nine new emoji characters.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  * Trombone\n\n\n  * Treasure Chest\n\n\n  * Distorted Face\n\n\n  * Hairy Creature (aka Bigfoot or Sasquatch)\n\n\n  * Fight Cloud\n\n\n  * Orca\n\n\n  * Landslide\n\n\n\nThere are also new skin tone modifiers people wrestling and dancers with bunny ears, as well as a gender neutral option for the ballet dancer emoji.\n\nThe emoji characters are part of the Unicode 17 update that the Unicode Consortium previewed in fall 2025. It often takes Apple several months to implement new emoji characters because new art needs to be drawn for each one.\n\nUpdated emoji are often added to Apple devices in the spring, typically in .4 software updates.\n\nApple last added new emoji characters in iOS 18.4, introducing bags under eyes face, fingerprint, leafless tree, root vegetable, harp, shovel, and splatter.\n\nNext year, in iOS 27, we could get a squinting face emoji, a monarch butterfly, left- and right-pointing thumb gestures, a pickle, a lighthouse, a meteor, an eraser, a net with a handle.\n\nRelated Roundups: iOS 26, iPadOS 26\n\nRelated Forum: iOS 26\n\n\nThis article, \"Latest iOS 26.4 Beta Adds New Emoji Characters\" first appeared on MacRumors.com\n\nDiscuss this article in our forums\n\n",
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