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iPhone users have just received a big update as Apple launches iOS 17.4.
The update brings major changes to security for iMessage, upgrades for the Podcast app, and 118 new emoji.
Among them are a lime, a phoenix, a brown mushroom, a broken metal chain, two shaking heads and four gender neural families.
There's also more than 100 people facing sideways in a range of skin colours and genders, including some holding canes and others in wheelchairs.
Here's how you can download the latest iOS 17.4 update to test the new emojis yourself.
iPhone users have just received a big update as Apple launches iOS 17.4. The update brings major changes to security for iMessage, upgrades for the Podcast app, and 118 new emoji
The update brings in 118 new emojis from the latest release by Unicode, the central bank of all approved emojis.
The vast majority (108) of the new characters are new 'direction-specifying' versions of the six existing person emojis.
This includes people facing sideways in a range of skin colours and genders, including some holding canes and others in wheelchairs.
Meanwhile, four new gender neutral families take the form of silhouettes, similar to the previous 'Bust in Silhouette' and 'Busts in Silhouette'.
Apple's gender neural family emojis are white on a light blue background, and consist of two parents and a child, one parent and two children, one parent and one child, and two parents and two children.
The 118 new emojis mainly consist of new person emojis in a range of skin-tones but iOS 17.4 will also bring a 'yes' and 'no' shaking head, a phoenix, a lime, a mushroom, and a breaking chain
In addition to the new emojis, there are several changes coming in response to the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA) - a
