Apple Is Bringing Four New Animoji to iOS

If you happen to have any of Apple’s newest iPhones that support Animoji, there are four new animals coming your way. With iOS 12.2 beta 2, Apple is releasing four new Animoji for devices like the iPhone X, iPhone Xr, iPhone Xs, and iPhone Xs Max.

The four new Animoji include a giraffe, a warthog, a shark, and my favourite, an owl. All of these new Animoji use the same TrueDepth camera technology as the other Animoji, meaning you can record videos with them with a bunch of different facial expressions in real-time.

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While all these new Animoji are cute, the shark one is probably going to be the most popular new Animoji because of the Baby Shark memes. With these four new Animoji, Apple now has a total number of 24 Animoji, which is pretty decent. Apple did introduce the ability to create your own Animoji personas with Memoji in iOS 12 so you don’t have to keep waiting for the company to add its own Animoji. The difference being, however, is you can only create human personas with Memoji while the native Animoji are mostly all animals.

Apple will release the new Animoji with iOS 12.2 sometime soon, though it will be more interesting to see if the company has any big plans for Animoji in iOS 13. 

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  • dontbe evil

    05 February, 2019 - 5:17 am

    <p>OMG that's revolutionary, they're the best!!!</p>

    • blackcomb

      10 February, 2019 - 12:59 pm

      <blockquote><em><a href="#401980">In reply to dontbe_evil:</a></em></blockquote><p><br></p><p>Can't innovate my ass!!!</p>

  • Gavin Groom

    05 February, 2019 - 5:21 am

    <p>Yay?</p>

  • BeckoningEagle

    Premium Member
    05 February, 2019 - 6:00 am

    <p>The Giraffe one might be enough to make me switch back to iOS from Android.</p>

  • tonchek

    05 February, 2019 - 9:42 am

    <p>FInally a good reason to buy a new iPhone!</p>

  • B Mallon

    05 February, 2019 - 10:32 am

    <p>My life is so much better now….</p>

  • lwetzel

    Premium Member
    05 February, 2019 - 11:21 am

    <p>Uhhhh……never have seen the point of this stuff. Then again, it's probably because it is just not me.</p>

  • VancouverNinja

    Premium Member
    05 February, 2019 - 2:23 pm

    <p>Is this really worth an article?</p><p><br></p><p>This just makes me feel that phones have taken us to new lows when it comes to software these days. </p>

  • Illusive_Man

    05 February, 2019 - 4:33 pm

    <p>Why not update the Phone app with something like Callscreen?</p>

  • BrianEricFord

    05 February, 2019 - 5:20 pm

    <p>I see the unfun crowd with no kids (or sense of joy) showed up to provide their hot takes.</p>

  • John Craig

    06 February, 2019 - 1:52 am

    <p>Slow news day?</p>

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