Apple recently updated the "Face with Medical Mask" emoji to include a smile behind the face mask, implying it's good to wear a mask during COVID.

Apple users will soon be able to express themselves with a new emoji that seems to be in good spirits, wearing a mask to help slow the spread of COVID-19.

Apple first introduced the mask emoji in 2008. Samsung first introduced it in 2012 and updated it’s mask-emoji to look more joyful back in March.

Noticeably absent? A usable medical-mask emoji for the pandemic era. The current mask emoji (?) on Apple’s iOS looks sickly. Its wincing eyes connote the agony of illness—an undeniable reality of our ...

Apple is giving the mask-wearing Emoji a slight facelift. The symbol that has long been used to imply illness has taken on a new meaning in 2020 with the pandemic pushing people to wear face ...

Apple first introduced the mask emoji in 2008. Samsung first introduced it in 2012 and updated it’s mask-emoji to look more joyful back in March.

As the mask-wearing emoji becomes more and more commonly used amid the coronavirus pandemic, Emojipedia explains that Apple is updating its facial expression so it no longer looks sad.

Apple is giving its mask-wearing emoji an update: The keyboard character donning a medical face mask will be smiling under the face covering rather than frowning, according to the Emojipedia blog ...

Directly comparing the mask emoji to Apple’s smiling face emoji, the similarity between the two are obvious. The new mask emoji is essentially the smiling face with a mask on.

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