Apple emojis are acting as attachments (mobile IOS)

[m-natarajan]

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Version Number: Reproducible in staging?: Needs Reproduction Reproducible in production?: Needs Reproduction If this was caught on HybridApp, is this reproducible on New Expensify Standalone?: If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail: Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856 Expensify/Expensify Issue URL: Issue reported by: @grgia Slack conversation (hyperlinked to channel name): expensify_quality

Action Performed:

1. Launch the app
2. Compose a message in any room
3. Tap the emoji selector in the keyboard
4. Tap on any emoji

Expected Result:

Emoji attached to the composed message

Actual Result:

Emoji acting as attachment and add attachment screen opens

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

Which of our officially supported platforms is this issue occurring on?

• [ ] Android: Standalone
• [ ] Android: HybridApp
• [ ] Android: mWeb Chrome
• [x] iOS: Standalone
• [x] iOS: HybridApp
• [ ] iOS: mWeb Safari
• [ ] MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• [ ] MacOS: Desktop

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https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/9610a615-af63-48e0-be14-ffada8957817

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[melvin-bot[bot]]

Triggered auto assignment to @OfstadC (Bug), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/14418 for more details. Please add this bug to a GH project, as outlined in the SO.

[melvin-bot[bot]]

Triggered auto assignment to @lakchote (AutoAssignerNewDotQuality)

[MelvinBot]

This has been labelled "Needs Reproduction". Follow the steps here: https://stackoverflowteams.com/c/expensify/questions/16989

[alitoshmatov]

Reproduced, this is only happening with IOS's custom emojis which makes since they are ios only and does not have a unicode.

They are being treated as attachments in other apps, for example in messages(see 2nd video), except blue chats. In telegram app they work like stickers

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/95bd60e0-b9c8-4ab1-80bd-1a2fd95c3a3f

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0337775d-3504-45c3-89be-68c9d9591716

[lakchote]

Reproduced, this is only happening with IOS's custom emojis which makes since they are ios only and does not have a unicode.

They are being treated as attachments in other apps, for example in messages(see 2nd video), except blue chats. In telegram app they work like stickers

That's kind of expected yes since iOS stickers/custom emojis are not standard.

Tried to reproduce the issue on my iOS device without success.

Posted about it here.

[lakchote]

We can close this issue there wasn't a bug; it was a big emoji sticker (see https://expensify.slack.com/archives/C05LX9D6E07/p1733755795349319?thread_ts=1733475051.093409&cid=C05LX9D6E07).