Apple's prolific emoji designers rolled out some new additions on Tuesday, making it even easier for iPhone users to move their fingers even less. Among the incredibly useful newbies arriving in iOS 12.1 are a variety of redheads, an abacus, and ... a leg?
Yes, just in time for the holidays, you'll be able to use an emoji that looks like a certain lamp from A Christmas Story, save for the shade and fishnet tights. Or perhaps, to spare your fingers from typing out "The Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes," you could try a whole line of bare legs, in six different tones.
The update also includes a revamped bagel emoji to replace the much-derided original bagel introduced last month. When it debuted, Philadelphia Cream Cheese launched a campaign to add "a schmear of cream cheese" to the design. And in a sure sign the petition process has become a joke, it paid off. The new version looks much more like a New York bagel than the original, which looked like something you'd buy in a plastic bag in some Midwest grocery store.
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A raccoon emoji will be added to the mix as well, especially useful for the next time one needs to rapidly text for help when stuck on the side of an office building.
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