What's up with these new iMessage emoji and such in iOS 10?

[pkcable]

Folks,

I saw a little about this during the iMore stream of the WWDC keynote, but I want to know more. So what's the dealio with these new emoji? How useful are they? Anymore actually using them in the beta or anything yet?

 

[Just_Me_D]

re:

At first glance, I really didn't care for them, but I can see how they could be useful in expressing yourself to certain people you send text / iMessages to. They typical young person already text using gifs, emojis, etcetera, and this is just to make it so that they wouldn't have to use a 3rd-party app to do it, in my opinion.

 

[Rob Phillips]

My guess is that it's going to be something that takes getting used to over time. I'm unsure how much I'll actually use the new features, but I'll a better idea when the public beta drops next month.

 

[pkcable]

My guess is that it's going to be something that takes getting used to over time. I'm unsure how much I'll actually use the new features, but I'll a better idea when the public beta drops next month.

I can see my 12 17 and 19 year old nephews and my 22 year old niece especially using this feature a HECK of a lot more than me! I downloaded Snapchat once and tried to use it and could not figure it out, so I asked my niece about it and she said "it's not for adults!" ROFL!