Yellow-Haired Elderly Emoji Icons No Longer Connote Elderliness 👴👵

Originator:tomwinzig
Number:rdar://21696043 Date Originated:06-Jul-2015 05:37 PM
Status:Open Resolved:
Product:iOS Product Version:8.3
Classification:UI/Usability Reproducible:Always
 
The elderly man/woman emoji used to depict a white man and woman with white/grey hair, identifying them either as elderly, or extreme Steve Martin fans.

Emoji changes were introduced in iOS 8.3 and OS X El Capitan, and I get the intent of the changes, but they may have gone a bit too far, in that these two icons no longer look like elderly people, but more like terrible Simpsons characters. (Hell, even Marge has BLUE hair.)

Is the end-user intended to pull out a magnifying glass, and count the microscopic wrinkles on the emoji characters, so that they’ll understand they represent elderly people?

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Possible Solutions:

* Give them grey hair again. As far as I know, people of every race, creed and color tend to get gray hair as they age.
* Give them glasses. Elderly people tend to have poor eyesight.
* Place their heads on the body of an owl. Owls are wise and so are elderly people.

Some of these solutions are as ridiculous as making their hair yellow. ;-)

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