Apple’s 'Face With Medical Mask' Emoji Has a Happy Face Now

Earlier this year, when the Coronavirus-led pandemic started to accept over the world, Apple tree'due south 'Confront with Medical Mask' emoji became 1 of the well-nigh-used emoji on social media. Since its introduction with Unicode one.0 dorsum in 2015, the face of the said emoji had a not-and then-happy expression, with a pair of closed, gloomy eyes depicting disease & sadness. Withal, with the latest iOS fourteen.2 beta update, Apple has swapped the grim-looking face of the emoji with a bright smiling face with rosy cheeks.

At present, wearing a mask has get a norm in today's virus-infected world as it helps adjourn the spread. So, to encourage people to clothing a mask, Apple'southward 'Face with Medical Mask' emoji will now show a pair of happy eyes instead of the gloomy and lethargic eyes of the previous iteration.

In the new iteration, you can almost imagine the cute smiling of the emoji underneath that face mask. Emojipedia fabricated a handy GIF showing off the aforementioned:

Apple Quietly Made the 'Face With Medical Mask' Emoji Happier in iOS 14.2 — GIF Courtesy: Emojipedia

As Emojipedia pointed out, Apple really put the cute blushing/grin face emoji, that already exists in its emoji library, in the new iteration. It is currently available just in the beta version of iOS fourteen.2. And will soon make its mode to global users when Apple releases the public version of the said iOS update.

The "Confront with Medical Mask" carries the previous face fifty-fifty in the official version of iOS 14. So, those who are using iOS 14.two beta are the only ones who will become access to the new emoji, every bit of now. And if you ship the new iteration of the emoji to your friends who are not running the latest iOS beta, the previous version of the emoji will appear on their devices.

Symbolism Matters

At present, this might await like a very tiny change but symbolism does matter. The previous version of the emoji symbolized that wearing a face mask is depressing and depicted illness. However, if you desire to encourage people to practice something (that many are against due to their rights), you wouldn't desire to symbolize that the thing is sad or depressing, correct?

Then, the Cupertino tech giant put the smiling face emoji with the happy eyes to show that wearing a face mask is not something to depressed about. On the contrary, you should be proud that yous are playing your part to prevent the spread of the deadly Coronavirus in your surface area. Hence, smile, even when your face is covered with a mask.