Apple has acknowledged that the existing suite of digital emotions and characters for punctuating text messages don't do enough to represent the diversity of their users.
A debate has been raging across digital and social media about the fact that the current crop of official emoji characters available may be varied in terms of the emotion or activity they represent, but when it comes to ethnicity, they are severely lacking.
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