iOS 11 will send animated emoji based on your facial expression

Apple has always been one of the main promoters of emoji, those famous icons that we all use not only in our instant messaging but even in emails and everything where we can place them. With iOS 11 it will go further, and according to what the leaked Golden Master version has revealed ahead of time we can send 3D animated emoji that will reflect the expression of our face.

These that you go in the header image are just some examples of what those animated emoji can do. The iPhone will capture our gestures and the emoji will reflect them, expressing better than ever what we want to communicate in the message. The catalog of emoji that we can customize will be very wide and we will show you below.

Fantastic animals like the unicorn, conventional animals like the rabbit, pig, panda, monkey, chicken, dog, cat and fox, science fiction characters like a robot or an alien, and of course, poop with eyes. All of them will be available for us to send via iMessage to another person with our expressions. The front camera and Apple's facial recognition system will serve to capture the expression of our face and depending on it, you will customize the emoji animation. The expressions that they will be able to capture are very varied, ranging from movements with the eyebrows, eyes, eyelids, mouth and cheeks to gestures as subtle as movements of the lips.

They will be functions only available for iMessage in a first phase, although it could be that Apple allows messaging applications to use these animated emoji. What seems almost certain is that due to hardware issues only the iPhone 8 will be able to use these animated emoji, since the entire facial recognition kit that only this new model will carry will be necessary, since the iPhone 7s and 7s Plus will continue to use Touch ID as a security system.