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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsiPhone users: You don't have to keep those yellow-skinned emoji people.
If you press and hold a people-emoji, a menu will pop up offering that emoji-person in a wide range of natural skin colors. Select any one you like. So much more beautiful than Simpson-yellow.
My menu of emoji-people is very diverse. It's lovely to see...
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iPhone users: You don't have to keep those yellow-skinned emoji people. (Original Post)
Aristus
Mar 2021
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Phoenix61
(18,769 posts)1. Neat!!! I didn't know that. nt
Aristus
(71,876 posts)2. There are a few exceptions.
The handshake emoji doesn't come in other skin colors. And a lot of the 'couples' emojis are yellow or nothing.
mucifer
(25,596 posts)3. I think there is something wrong with me. I like being Simpson yellow
regnaD kciN
(27,543 posts)4. I did that on a few of them...
...but then found people asking me why I did so. I guess, in their eyes, changing those emojis to white (well, light pink, obviously) was some sort of a statement of "White Pride" on my part.
Mr. Scorpio
(73,765 posts)5. This is true
👨🏽🦲🧕🏽🧑🏾🦱 It definitely works.
Although they still have a lot of improbable skin/hair color combinations though.
