Taiwan flag emoji disappears from latest Apple iPhone keyboard

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Close Searchfor: Search TOPICS Animals Arts&Lifestyle Business Community&Education Environment&Health HKFPEditorials HKFPFeatures Humour&Satire Interviews Law&Crime LGBTQ&Gender Politics&Protest Science&Technology Sport Travel&Transport UrbanExploration World HONGKONG 2014UmbrellaMovement 2019Protests 2021LegislativeElections CarrieLam Covid-19Pandemic DomesticWorkers ElectionOverhaul HongKongHumans LegCoOath-takingRow NationalSecurity PressFreedom&Censorship CHINA 1989TiananmenMassacre GreaterBayArea SouthChinaSeaDispute XinjiangCrackdown XiJinping TAIWAN MACAU OPINION FEATURES LENS VENTURE BUZZ ABOUTHKFP AdvertisewithHKFP ContactHKFP HKFPAnnualReport2020 HKFPCodeofEthics HKFPCorrectionsPolicy HKFPCommunityPolicy HKFPDocumentary HKFPTransparencyReport HKFPMobileApps HKFPNewsletter HKFPCareers Privacy,T’s&C’s SecurityLawFAQ SupportHKFP WriteForHKFP SUPPORTHKFP About Contact EthicsCode AnnualReport Transparency SecurityLaw Newsletter Advertise WriteForUs Support Facebook Twitter Instagram LinkedIn YouTube Phone RSS Close Searchfor: Search October2019 M T W T F S S  123456 78910111213 14151617181920 21222324252627 28293031   «Sep   Nov» Categories Animals Arts,Lifestyle&Events Business China Community&Education Defence&ForeignPolicy DomesticWorkers Environment&Health HKFPBuzz HKFPEditorials HKFPFeatures HKFPLens HKFPReports HKFPVenture HKFPVoices HongKong Humour&Satire Interviews Law&Crime LGBTQ&Gender Macau Opinion Politics&Protest Science&Technology Sponsored Sport Taiwan TOP-LEVELCAT(Pick1) Travel&Transport UrbanExploring Video World Skiptocontent TheRepublicofChinaflagemojihasdisappearedfromAppleiPhone’skeyboardforHongKongandMacauusers.Thechangehappenedforuserswhoupdatedtheirphonestothelatestoperatingsystem. UpdatingiPhonestoiOS13.1.1orabovecausedtheflagemojitodisappearfromtheemojikeyboard. Theflag,commonlyusedbyuserstodenoteTaiwan,canstillbedisplayed bytyping“Taiwan”inEnglish,andchoosingtheflaginpredictioncandidates. ThechangewasspottedbyHongKongonlineforumusersrecently.TheiOS13.1.1updaterolledoutattheendofSeptemberinordertofixbugs. Apple’sregionlockofROCTaiwanflagextendedbeyondCNdevicestoHKandMacau’sintheiOS/iPadOS13.1.1rollout.Interestingly,thenewlockonlyaffectsthekeyboard,andhasnoproblemdisplayingandiseasytobypassbyswitchingregion.https://t.co/RVRKNQyc1lpic.twitter.com/8eQXambiAQ—王博源WangBoyuan(@thisboyuan)October3,2019 AnHKFPreporterusinganiPhonewithiOS13.1.2alsoobservedthechange.Previously,theTaiwanflagemojiwasbannedoniPhoneinChina. Accordingtoanarticleon Hiraku,ablogaboutAppledevices,anydevicemodelwith“CN”or“ZA”region–denotingChinaandHongKong–willnothaveaccesstotheTaiwanemojiviathekeyboard. Ifusershaveadevicefromanotherregion,buttheysettheregiontoHongKongorMacau,the Taiwanemojiwillalsodisappear.TheHirakuarticlestatedthat,beforethe2018modeliPhoneXSwasreleased,theregioncodeofHongKongwas“ZP,”butitwaschangedto “ZA”aftertheiPhoneXSwasreleased. TheTaiwanflagemojicanstillbetyped.Photo:HKFP. “ThismeansthatallHongKongdevicessinceiPhoneXS/XRwithiOS13.1.1orabove[donot]showTaiwanese(ROC)flaginEmojikeyboardanymore,andthere’snoworkaroundtopassthisrestriction,”thearticlesaid. ALSOONHKFP Public,mediabarredfromobservingballotcountsatspecialHongKong-mainlandbordervotingstations Securitylaw:DozensofHongKongdemocratstospendfestiveseasonindetention–subversiontrialdatestillunclear DespitetheapparentpurgeofHongKonguniversities,changingpeople’smindsisharderthanitlooks HongKongissuesarrestwarrantsfortwoself-exiledex-politiciansaftertheyurgedelectionprotestvotes,boycott “Ontheotherhand,devicesinotherregionscanaddthisrestrictionwithsoftwaresettings.Ifyouwanttotry,justchangeyouriOS13.1.1+deviceregiontoHongKong,andmakesurethattheinterfacelanguageisnotsetto‘TraditionalChinese(Taiwan),’andthenyoucan[find]thattheTaiwaneseflagismissing…” Lastyear,HKFPreportedthat thenamesofsomeChinesestateleadersandactivistsweredeemed“inappropriatewords”andcensoredshoppershopingtoengravetheiriPad,iPodTouchorApplePencilwithacustommessage. TaiwanhasbeenruledbytheRepublicofChinagovernmentsince1945afterJapan–whichoccupiedtheislandfor50years–wasdefeatedintheSecondWorldWar.ThePeople’sRepublicofChinaclaimsthatTaiwanisoneofitsprovincesanddoesnotrecogniseitasanindependentcountry. Livemapbanned Meanwhile,anappshowingthelocationofHongKongpolicedeploymentshasbeenbarredfromtheAppleappstore. “Yourappcontainscontent–orfacilitates,enables,andencouragesanactivity–thatisnotlegal…Specifically,theappalloweduserstoevadelawenforcement.”@Appleassumeouruserarelawbreakersandthereforeevadinglawenforcement,whichisclearlynotthecase.—HKmap.live全港抗爭即時地圖HKProtestLiveMap(@hkmaplive)October1,2019 ItwasbannedasApplesaidtheappcontainedcontentthat“facilitates,enablesandencourages”illegalactivities,theapp’sdevelopersaidonTwitter. “Tomakeitclear,Istillbelievethisismoreabureaucraticfupthancensorship,”thedevelopersaid.“Everythingcanbeusedforillegalpurpose[in]thewronghand[s].OurAppisforinfo,andwedonotencourageillegalactivity.” TheappisstillavailableonGooglePlaystore.Itswebsiteversionisalsoavailable. HongKongFreePressreliesondirectreadersupport.Helpsafeguardindependentjournalismandpressfreedomasweinvestmoreinfreelancers,overtime,safetygear&insuranceduringthissummer’sprotests. 10waystosupportus. SupportHKFP | CodeofEthics | Error/typo? | ContactUs | Newsletter | Annual&TransparencyReport KrisCheng facebooktwitter KrisChengisaHongKongjournalistwithaninterestinlocalpolitics.HisworkhasbeenfeaturedinWashingtonPost,PublicRadioInternational,HongKongEconomicTimesandothers.HehasaBSScinSociologyfromtheChineseUniversityofHongKong.KrisisHKFP'sEditorialDirector. 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