Apple Emojis To Diversify

In an email between MTV Act's Joey Parker and Katie Cotton, vice president for corporate communciations at Apple, Cotton said, "There needs to be more diversity in the emoji character set, and we have been working closely with the Unicode Consortium in an effort to update the standard."

Currently, the emojis are based on the Unicode standard, which is necessary for them to display properly across many platforms, according to Cotton. 

At the moment, the majority of Apple's emojis are yellow and those depicting real people are fare-skinned. The few depictions of other ethnicities and cultures include turban-wearing Southeast Asians and a salsa-dancing woman in a red dress.