[kazinator]

> Means if your app displays emoji anywhere without a user having it typed in, it’s illegal and will be rejected.

How does that work in a chat app, when the remote user has typed that in on their device?

[manicdee]

The distinction is whether you are using the emoji as a UX asset or simply displaying it as part of the interaction between user and app.

User enters emoji in their secret diary: great. You allow selection of mood for today by displaying a range of emoji faces: bad

[gregknicholson]

So Facebook can't use the thumbs up emoji as a button label any more?

Or is that OK because it's an "image", not an "emoji", despite carrying the exact same meaning as the emoji, and looking indistinguishable from a rendering of the emoji?

Or is it OK if they bring their own image file? What if they bring their own emoji font and use that, to improve rendering speed?

[egypturnash]

Presumably a remote user is still a user.

My inner rules lawyer does note that this could pose a problem for any bot that emits emoji...

[nsxwolf]

A bot user is still a user. Maybe.