Apple recently updated the "Face with Medical Mask" emoji to include a smile behind the face mask, implying it's good to wear a mask during COVID.

Hedley & Bennett's "Wake Up & Fight" masks become a call to action 04:29. Apple is giving its mask-wearing emoji an update: The keyboard character donning a medical face mask will be smiling under ...

Apple had no comment on the updated design of its face mask emoji, but this new smiling version is not the first of its kind. Certain competitors already offer smiley face mask emojis to their users.

However, with masks becoming ubiquitous due to the pandemic, Apple is changing the emoji’s look in the upcoming iOS 14.2 update so that it doesn’t look quite as sad, according to Emojipedia. ...

The Emoji's official name is "Face with Medical Mask" and it was added to iPhone iOS in 2008. Apple's move to alter the symbol follows Samsung, which gave its users a happier face mask emoji in March.

According to Emojipedia, under Apple’s iOS 14.2 update, the emoji will instead have raised eyebrows and blushing cheeks, which are intended to portray the masked emoji as smiling. Recommended ...

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The new icon will show one of Apple’s smiling emoji’s with a mask superimposed. Sections. Listen. WATCH. 52 ...

The new icon will show one of Apple’s smiling emoji’s with a mask superimposed. Sections. WATCH. 60 ...

However, with masks becoming ubiquitous due to the pandemic, Apple is changing the emoji’s look in the upcoming iOS 14.2 update so that it doesn’t look quite as sad, according to Emojipedia.

However, with masks becoming ubiquitous due to the pandemic, Apple is changing the emoji’s look in the upcoming iOS 14.2 update so that it doesn’t look quite as sad, according to Emojipedia.

However, with masks becoming ubiquitous due to the pandemic, Apple is changing the emoji’s look in the upcoming iOS 14.2 update so that it doesn’t look quite as sad, according to Emojipedia.