Everything's peachy as Apple restores emoji's 'bum' features

Company has U-turned on cheeky plan to censor much-loved symbol and has reinstated its defining characteristics

iPhone users, fear not: Apple is listening to your demands, assuming your demands involve a peach emoji that looks a bit like a bum. If you have other demands, those will have to wait. We're dealing with the bum issue here.

The company had previously caused dismay among users due to a small change implemented in the first beta of iOS 10.2, the next update to its operating system for iPhones and iPads. As part of a general push by Apple to replace classic emoji with new, "realistic" versions, the update contained a new version of the peach emoji. Replacing the angular, contoured peach of the past was a new, rounder fruit, with a less prominent cleft running down its middle.