I was recently using a simple Unicode arrow (▶
) for a play button on a video which looked great, everywhere, except on iOS it was being rendered as an Emoji:
![Sample rendering of the right-pointing arrow that is rendered as an Emoji instead of text on iOS](https://cjhaas.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/116822e835b88d002c3638823bc35f.png)
Although not terrible, it didn’t work with our design.
The fix is luckily easy, you just need to explicitly specify which variant you want:
▶︎
Thanks to this Stackoverflow post!