Unicorn and middle finger emoji coming to iPhone – but still no redheads

Apple's new mobile operating system iOS 9.1, released this month, will include new emoji including a burrito, table tennis and a swearing finger

Ever wanted to send a burrito emoji? Of course, you have. We live in a world of Netflix and chill. Well now - you know where this is going, right? - users will soon be able to send burrito emoji and communicate via a unicorn or a flipped middle finger. Or they will when Apple's update to its mobile operating system, iOS 9.1, arrives later this autumn.

A whole new batch of emoji was approved by the Unicode Consortium, the industry body which sets the standard cross-platform options, in June 2015 and 2014. But many of the newer designs have yet to be implemented, aside from emoji people of colour, fixing the, quite frankly, appalling fact that initially only white people were represented in human emoji.