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iOS 12 and Android P Emoji Release Date With New Updates

This has been a good week for all emoji lovers, whether they own an iPhone or and Android phone. There is a new set of emojis on its way and we finally received a release date for it. Let’s see what this exciting update will bring.

Release date

Unicode Consortium finally revealed the release date for a new set of emoji that is supposed to come with the next iOS and Android versions. It appears that the new emojis will become available on June 5. The new emojis will include a hot face, a cold face, a woozy face, a party face, as well as some new body parts, animals and emojis related to science.

“The Unicode Character Database, Code Charts, and Annexes for Version 11.0 will be released on June 5, 2018. The core specification (the PDF chapters) of Version 11.0 is still pending publication due to the extensive editorial work required for the new content additions. Until final publication, the links to individual chapters of the core specification will not be activated. An announcement will be made when the core specification for Version 11.0 is available. In the meantime, implementers can continue to reference the relevant sections of the most recent version of the core specification,” says the Unicode page.

New emojis

The new emoji set comes with more than 150 brand new emojis. If you want some hair diversity, this update will let you choose between white haired emojis, ginger emojis, curly emojis and even bald ones. Additionally, you will notice that there are some super heroes as well as some super villains, and other emojis such as a lab coat. Finally, there are some new faces, such as the pleading face, the party face or the woozy face.

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Is iPhone NFC Going to Open up in iOS 12?

Apple is getting ready to slacken its tight grasp on the iPhone’s NFC, with reports that the firm intends to give designers access to the secured wireless chip. In the first place added to the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus in 2014, NFC (or Near Field Communications) was utilized for Apple Pay, the company’s mobile payments system.

From that point forward, Apple has kept NFC on a genuinely short chain. Dissimilar to Android telephones, where NFC is commonly opened up for outsider designers to take advantage of, iOS has been all the more grudging with its entrance. iOS 11 included Core NFC, for instance. However, that only upheld a specific sort of data tags.

Presently, it’s guaranteed, things will get significantly fascinating

As indicated by The Information’s sources, Apple wants to grow the entrance to NFC on the iPhone far, and potentially on the Apple Watch as well. Set to be reported at WWDC 2018, the company’s yearly developer event, it will give designers an extensive variety of potential applications for the radio.

One conceivable would be secure access management. As indicated by the report, Apple workers based at Apple Park, the company’s doughnut molded HQ, are as of now utilizing their iPhones as a door entry system. The smartphones can be held against badge readers and used to access parts of the office where every representative has been granted permission to enter.

The degree past that, notwithstanding, is significant. NFC is usually utilized for travel tickets, and it’s not unfeasible to envision new increments to the Apple Wallet for rail and metro passes, bus passes, and the sky is the limit from there. Apple has some travel pass support with Apple Pay, yet more omnipresent access to the NFC equipment could quickly accelerate that. Not long ago, Google added travel pass support to Google Pay, however so far the system is genuinely scanty regarding support.

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iOS 12 Update: Instagram and New Improvements

On Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference held on June 4, Apples announced that they will target security and reliability for their future phone models. I made a list of features that I would like to be seen on my new iPhone version.

Clear those annoying notifications

This should be the main feature because everyone wants to feel free to choose how they want their notifications to be kept. Also, unsubscribing for those annoying notifications would be an important step. I think we could do that simply from a settings icon. More precisely, Apple should borrow this idea from Android, at least in that area.

No Instagram feeling

When I enter the Photo app, I want to see my iCloud Library too. This should be automatically synchronized with my albums.  The albums are generated by the time, the size, the location. It is not fun anymore. I want to see my recent photos from a launch view, with a lot of options for sharing with those we love.

Also, I want to put filters on my photos and play new highlighters with them, without entering the gallery every time. A distinct application for these features would be a great victory in this battle with boring photos.

Silent phone all day long

For now, I would like my calls to be filtered while I am driving. I do not want to receive calls for everyone, just for my friends and family, if it is something urgent. This behavior can be chosen in the night version of “Do not disturb”, so let’s make it possible for the drive mode, too.

Also, at nights it might happen that someone from the approved list to call me. I would like to answer, because for sure it’s an emergency. This control upon my notifications would be a dream for the “Do not Disturb” feature.

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