According to foreign media reports, Apple’s iOS input method has added three emojis. When the user enters “Black Lives Matter or BLM for short), the input method will display these three emojis for users to choose from. In iOS 13.6 or the latest iOS 14 beta, users can find these three emojis.
Since the George Floyd incident, this “fist raised” emoji has become a symbol of people protesting racial inequality and police violence. Emojipedia research shows that during the period from the end of May to June, the use of medium-dark and dark-skinned fist emojis on Twitter has increased significantly.
Emojipedia stated that they had previously conducted a study that analyzed 278,244 tweets sent by users from June 4th to 5th, raising their fists is the most used emoji by users, and when using these emojis, many users It will be accompanied by words like “Black Lives Matter” or “BLM”.
Apple is probably seeing this trend too. By automatically suggesting this emoji in the input method, people will be able to use it more easily, without having to open the emoji page deliberately to find it. In addition to promoting racial equality on its own software, Apple also announced on June 11 that it would invest $100 million to launch a racial equality and justice program.
On Thursday, Apple also announced that it will expand its cooperation with black colleges and universities to provide programming education opportunities for communities near the school.
