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Remember Apple's Animoji012 Archives Well, they just got even more ... interesting ... with "tongue detection."

During the unveil for the iPhone X last year, Apple introduced Animoji, which are 3D emoji capable of replicating your facial expressions and voice. On Monday, Apple added a tongue detecting feature, which they announced at the annual developer's conference. This, we presume, will likely only be used for sexting.

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"Animoji do such an amazing job at tracking our expressions, and this year, we're taking Animoji to a whole new level with breakthrough new technology we call tongue detection," Craig Federighi, Apple's SVP of software engineering, told the crowd of developers at WWDC as a 3D monkey, unicorn, alien, and robot on screen stuck their tongues out at them.

"We're all going to be sticking out our tongues to our phones in the near future," he said.

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Hell yeah we are, Craig.

Next Apple unveiled what it calls Memoji, which can also be described as a fancy ripoff of Bitmoji. But with the addition of tongue detection, Memoji means people will be creating emoji of themselves, licking the air in front of their screen in a desperate digital attempt at getting laid.

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Thanks, Apple. This is exactly what we needed.

Some people were less than thrilled with this exciting development.

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Hey, at least we finally have a use for Animoji.

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