4 Reasons Not to Install iPadOS 14.8.1 & 11 Reasons You Should

Install iPadOS 14.8.1 for New Emojis

If you love using emojis on your iPad, and you skipped iPadOS 14.8, iPadOS 14.7.1, iPadOS 14.7, iPadOS 14.6, iPadOS 14.5.1, and iPadOS 14.5, you'll probably want to download iPadOS 14.8.1. It has a bunch of new characters on board.

iPadOS 14.5 brought hundreds of new emoji characters to the iPad. The list includes spiral eyes, heart on fire, face in clouds, exhaling face, and more.

Unfortunately, the only way you'll be able to use, and see, these characters in Messages is if your iPad is running iPadOS 14.8.1, iPadOS 14.8, iPadOS 14.7.1, iPadOS 14.7, iPadOS 14.6, iPadOS 14.5.1, or iPadOS 14.5.

If you don't have iPadOS 14.8.1, iPadOS 14.8, iPadOS 14.7.1. iPadOS 14.7, iPadOS 14.6, iPadOS 14.5.1, or iPadOS 14.5 installed, the characters will show up as a weird symbol when your friends send them to you in a conversation.