The 300 new emojis include same-sex families and more national flags, plus the long-awaited racially diverse faces.
A new software update is giving iPhone and iPad users access to racially diverse emojis.
The 300 new emojis - the symbols and images which can be included in texts and emails - also include the new Apple watch and additional national flags.
As part of the diversity drive, same-sex family emojis have also been added to the selection.
Apple came under fire in February because some people said some of its Asian emoji faces were too yellow.
"Are we really that yellow?" wrote a social media user on Weibo, China's version of Twitter.
"That yellow is really yellow, how can a man be so yellow?" asked another.
The keyboard of illustrated icons is based on Unicode, the standard for text, numbers and emojis across all platforms.
Emojis originated in Japan and were added to the Unicode Standard in 2010. Apple first included them in iOS in 2011.
To get the new emojis users must update their software to iOS 8.3, which also carries out a number of bug fixes.
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