The Emoji's official name is "Face with Medical Mask" and it was added to iPhone iOS in 2008. Apple's move to alter the symbol follows Samsung, which gave its users a happier face mask emoji in March.

Apple Updated Its Mask-Wearing Emoji to Include a Smile It just shows that following CDC guidelines can put a smile on your face. By Katie Dupere Published: Oct 05, 2020 8:37 AM EDT ...

Hedley & Bennett's "Wake Up & Fight" masks become a call to action 04:29. Apple is giving its mask-wearing emoji an update: The keyboard character donning a medical face mask will be smiling under ...

Apple is upgrading its mask emoji to reflect a smiling face as part of the latest iOS update. As the mask-wearing emoji becomes more and more commonly used amid the coronavirus pandemic, ...

Samsung has beaten Apple to the punch, updating its mask emoji in March to have more cheerful looking eyes. Apple iOS 14.2 is currently in beta, and the company is yet to announce a release date ...

Apple has quietly updated its “Face with Medical Mask” emoji with friendlier eyes, eyebrows, and rosy cheeks. It appears to be Apple’s “Smiling Face” emoji, with a mask on top.

The Face with Medical Mask emoji as it appears on various operating systems. Screenshot from Emojipedia.. Then, he made a mock-up of his smize-ing mask emoji using Apple’s Keynote software and ...

The new icon will show one of Apple’s smiling emoji’s with a mask superimposed. Sections. Listen. WATCH. 52 ...

The new icon will show one of Apple’s smiling emoji’s with a mask superimposed. Sections. WATCH. 93 ...

The new icon will show one of Apple’s smiling emoji’s with a mask superimposed. Sections. WATCH. 60 ...

However, with masks becoming ubiquitous due to the pandemic, Apple is changing the emoji’s look in the upcoming iOS 14.2 update so that it doesn’t look quite as sad, according to Emojipedia.

The new icon will show one of Apple’s smiling emoji’s with a mask superimposed. Sections. WATCH. 49 ...