Apple has quietly updated its “Face with Medical Mask” emoji with friendlier eyes, eyebrows, and rosy cheeks. It appears to be Apple’s “Smiling Face” emoji, with a mask on top.

Apple Updated Its Mask-Wearing Emoji to Include a Smile It just shows that following CDC guidelines can put a smile on your face. By Katie Dupere Published: Oct 05, 2020 8:37 AM EDT ...

All of which is to say: The 3,000-year-old tilde might want to consider rebranding itself as Invisible Man With Twirled Mustache. I t’s easy to dismiss emoji. They are, at first glance, ridiculous.

Several of the new emoji included in Unicode Standard 7.0. Unicode Notably, the update does not bring many, if any, more diverse faces and skin tones to the icon set.

The new mask emoji is essentially the smiling face with a mask on. While it doesn’t necessarily mean that it is smiling, the emoji doesn’t look quite as cheerless as it does now.

The new mask emoji is essentially the smiling face with a mask on. While it doesn’t necessarily mean that it is smiling, the emoji doesn’t look quite as cheerless as it does now.