Emojis

Apple and many other vendors implement the Unicode standard, and emojis are part of Unicode.

Unicode has recently decided to avoid the increasing technical complexity of the permutations involved here, too.

Here is an example of one of the family groups from prior to Unicode 15.1, and an example of that same group in Unicode 15.1 and later:

Here are the details of the current implementation, including the 15.1 changes to the icons used to represent families:

http://blog.unicode.org/2023/01/whats-new-in-emoji-151.html

Here are the technical details of the skin tone handling that arrived with Unicode 14.0, both individually, and when multiple people are present in the emoji (starting from 14.0 and prior to 15.1):

https://unicode.org/L2/L2019/19392-emoji-multi-recs.pdf

If you would like to submit a request for a change or an addition to the folks on the Unicode emoji standards committee, here is how:

https://www.unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html

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