Who says Santa Claus has to be white? Until now, your iPhone’s emoji keyboard did.
A new beta release of iOS 8.3, currently available only to software developers, fixes that. It includes the option to change an emoji’s skin color, meaning you can finally choose something beyond the pale pink hands and white boys and girls currently available. The human-looking emoji — including the one for Kris Kringle — will now have six different skin tones to pick from.
Jacqueline Roy, a spokeswoman for Apple, confirmed the update.
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The new diverse emoji are also available in a “pre-release” of the latest Mac OS X version. But unless you’re a software developer, you’ll have to wait for the final versions to be released.
H/T Techcrunch
