Apple’s AI can make custom emoji and images

4 months ago

Apple Intelligence will let you make silly emoji of your own.

By Jay Peters, a news editor who writes about technology, video games, and virtual worlds. He’s submitted several accepted emoji proposals to the Unicode Consortium.

Jun 10, 2024, 6:39 PM UTC

A photo of Apple’s custom “Genmoji” in iOS 18.

Apple’s new “Apple Intelligence” generative AI features will let you make your own custom emoji and images, the company announced at WWDC 2024.

The custom emoji are called “Genmoji,” and they look like a lot of fun. In one example, during Monday’s keynote, Apple showed how the prompt “smiley relaxing wearing cucumbers” generates a yellow smiley face emoji with cucumbers over its eyes. There’s also a new “Image Playground” image generator.

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