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it's time to meet Apple's new emoji I'm Bridget Carey this is your CNN update the next operating system for iPhones and iPads iOS 9 it comes out on Wednesday September 16th Apple is adding updates to Siri the Maps app and new search tools newer iPads are gonna get multitasking abilities but some may argue that the most exciting changes won't be arriving until the next update version 9.1 because that my friends is when Apple will release new emoji in a developer beta of 9.1 we can see that Apple has created art for more than 50 new icons the site emoji pedia org highlights the new cast of characters including new sports icons facial expressions food like the much longed-for taco and burrito and there's also animals a new hand gestures like the rock on sign of the horns and yes Apple also created a middle finger emoji the crude expression is a bit controversial but Microsoft and Google also created art so you can send people the bird a group called the Unicode consortium sets the standards of which symbols are in the universal Unicode keyboard language but it's up to Apple and other companies to design how they want those icons to look or even if they want to give people the option to use it the middle finger was released in u2 code standards since summer of last year but it's only now that Apple designed an image and added it to the keyboard in the meantime you'll have to find more creative ways to show your negative feelings in emoji because these icons are not expected to be added to the official iPhone and iPad keyboard software updates until sometime in November of course these days emoji are not limited to our keyboards there are emoji apps that make it easy to copy and paste photos of other images into your text messages for example the Star Wars app has Star Wars characters that you can copy and paste and now for the first time the Pope even has his own emoji commissioned by the Catholic Network Alitalia and created by the app maker swift media the Pope emoji app has 52 icons and 14 gifts with Pope Francis in American settings to support his visit to the US and reach Millennials in new ways we're living in some strange times oMG and if anyone is periscoping the Pope's visit to the US this month they can do so in landscape mode Twitter's live video streaming app has forced you always to take vertical video but now it finally added an update so you can also broadcast videos to the world horizontally and now if you start a private broadcast you'll see a list of mutual followers and friends to make it faster to share a video that's it for this tech news update you can keep up with all the latest at cnet.com from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey