how come there is not one single ancient egypt or symbolic symbols to represent Africa in apple

how come there is not one single ancient egypt or symbolic symbols to represent Africa in apple’s emoji center?

iPhone 14 Pro, iOS 18

Posted on Sep 1, 2025 09:48 AM

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Sep 1, 2025 09:55 AM in response to lilquinn

Apple isn't in charge of Emojis, the Unicode Consortium is, which is a universal organization in charge of maintaining all emojis across all manufacturers. You can read the requirements and submit a proposal below.


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


In addition, newest iPhones, specifically the 15 Pro and later which support Apple Intelligence have the capability to create custom emojis, called Genmojis, based on your own descriptions.


Create your own emoji with Genmoji on iPhone - Apple Support


Sep 1, 2025 11:24 AM in response to lilquinn

lilquinn wrote:

how come there is not one single ancient egypt or symbolic symbols to represent Africa in apple’s emoji center?

Nobody speaks ancient Egyptian anymore. Nevertheless, Apple does include Egyptian Hieroglyphic symbols, as well as other historic writing systems used in Africa such as Phoenician, Greek, and Hebrew.


For current languages, Apple includes symbols for Meroitic Hieroglyphic, Meroitic Cursive, Tifinagh, Ethiopic, Osmanya, Bamum, Adlam, Bassa, Mende Kikakui, Nko, ***, and of course Arabic and Latin scripts.


I'm no expert on these things. I just went through the Wikipedia list of writing systems in Africa and found those included in Apple's Unicode symbols. I could've missed some.

how come there is not one single ancient egypt or symbolic symbols to represent Africa in apple

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