Apple adds cream cheese to its bagel emoji after complaints
New emoji has a plumper, doughier look and a pat of cream cheese
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JTA — When Apple released its bagel emoji earlier this month people weren’t exactly kvelling.
On social media, New Yorkers and bagel lovers of all stripes lamented the icon’s aggressively plain appearance.
Now Apple has responded. After its latest iOS software update, the emoji has a plumper, doughier look and a shmear of cream cheese.
The revamped emoji got some love from at least one trusted source — Philadelphia Cream Cheese.
Hey @Apple and @Unicode, so glad you realized what everyone else knows: a #BagelEmoji can’t exist without cream cheese. We want to help you celebrate the update. DM to tell us when we can deliver breakfast. pic.twitter.com/ApaI0G5a0h
— Philadelphia Cream Cheese (@phillycreamchs) October 16, 2018
It also elicited plenty of conversations (both serious and humorous) about other emojis that need some tweaking.
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All you bagel emoji complainers have it easy. Imagine being Italian and having to suffer through this pizza emoji atrocity for YEARS pic.twitter.com/VZhffx35xw
— Federico Viticci (@viticci) October 16, 2018
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