To mark World Emoji Day 2018, Apple has unveiled more than 70 new emoji characters set to appear in an update to operating software on its devices, including the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac.

The new ones are all based on approved characters in Unicode 11.0 but, this being Apple, the emoji look pretty cool. Apple has added new hair colors - ginger and gray - plus more curly haired options.

Creating the First Emoji All of these reports remain unconfirmed. However, CNN reported that one person from Japan created the first emoji in 1999, working within a grid measuring 12 by 12 pixels.