Yesterday, Apple took the wraps off its new Photos app, which will be introduced as part of OS X 10.10.3. To go along with that, the company pushed a developer seed of that new OS X update out to developers, and as usual there are a number of changes in it beyond just the new Photos app. One of the most noteworthy centers around emoji: it looks like there will be some new organizational schemes as well as a long-anticipated update that will allow emoji to be more multicultural than they are now.
It looks like users will soon have the option to assign different skin tones to certain emoji through a "skin tone modifier" panel — when clicking on a particular emoji, you can then choose from a variety of different tones rather than just the default option. This feature hasn't been fully implemented yet, as there are still blank spaces and placeholders for various new emoji as well as the specific skin tones, but this should be fully realized by the time 10.10.3 is released.
Apple has also expanded the categories that emoji are grouped into, a much-needed change — the huge variety of emoji currently found under the "bell" category is simply ridiculous at this point, for example. Users will also be able to scroll through a complete list of all installed emoji rather than paging through lists, though the option to skip around the various categories will still exist.
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