Oct 07, 2019 13:00:00

Hong Kong and Macao users report that `` Taiwan flag '' has been deleted from the emoji list on iPhone

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Matthew Fang

Taiwan is not the Chinese Communist Party , which is the leading political party of the People's Republic of China , but the Chinese National Party and the Democratic Progressive Party are politics. There is also a national flag as the Republic of China in Taiwan, but when an iPhone user in Hong Kong or Macao updated to iOS 13.1.1, `` the Taiwan flag pictogram has been deleted from the keyboard pictogram list '' It became clear.

iOS 13.1.1 Banned Taiwan (ROC) Flag Emoji for HongKong and Macau Users-Hiraku Dev
https://hiraku.tw/2019/10/4877/

Taiwan flag emoji disappears from latest Apple iPhone keyboard | Hong Kong Free Press HKFP
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2019/10/05/taiwan-flag-emoji-disappears-latest-apple-iphone-keyboard

Apple updated iOS 13.1.1 at the end of September 2019 to fix bugs. As a result of this update, the iPhone flag of users whose regional settings are set to Hong Kong or Macau has been deleted from the list of pictographs included in the iPhone keyboard.

TechCrunch Chinese version is the editor of OHiroshigen Mr. reported this matter on Twitter. A screenshot showing how the emoji list has changed is available.

Apple's region lock of ROC Taiwan flag ???????? extended beyond CN devices to HK and Macau's in the iOS / iPadOS 13.1.1 rollout. Interestingly, the new lock only affects the keyboard, and has no problem displaying and is To Bypass By Easy Switching Region. Https://T.Co/RVRKNQyc1l Pic.Twitter.Com/8eQXambiAQ

— Wang Boyuan (@thisboyuan) October 3, 2019

This is an image posted by Mr. Wang. On the device of the user whose regional setting is not Hong Kong or Macau (on the image), the Taiwan flag is displayed in the pictogram list, while on the device whose regional setting is Hong Kong or Macau (bottom image), the Taiwan flag is displayed. You can see that it has been deleted.

Previously, the Taiwan national flag pictogram was not displayed on iPhones in China, but this discovery revealed that the region where the Taiwan national flag is deleted from the keyboard pictogram list has expanded. .

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Hiraku of the blog about Apple devices investigated the code, if the device's region code was `` CN (China) '' or `` ZA '', the Taiwan flag was supposed to be deleted from the keyboard thing. According to Hiraku, before the iPhone XS was released in 2018, the Hong Kong region code was “ ZP ”, but after the iPhone XS was released, it was changed to “ZA”. In other words, if the regional setting is set to Hong Kong or Macau on iPhone XS, XS Max, or XR equipped with iOS 13.1.1 or later, the Taiwan flag is deleted from the emoji keyboard.

If you type 'taiwan' on the keyboard, the Taiwan flag is displayed in the predictive conversion, so the Taiwan flag emoji is not disabled on the device.

In October 2019, the app that notified police activities in Hong Kong was suspended on the App Store as `` I recommend illegal activities '', `` Apple is in line with the intention of the Chinese Communist Party We are operating '.

Apple bans apps that protect Hong Kong people from danger as `` recommends illegal activities ''-gigazine

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