Meanwhile, an app showing the location of Hong Kong police deployments has been barred from the Apple app store. The People’s Republic of China claims that Taiwan is one of its provinces and does not recognise it as an independent country. Taiwan has been ruled by the Republic of China government since 1945 after Japan – which occupied the island for 50 years – was defeated in the Second World War. Last year, HKFP reported that the names of some Chinese state leaders and activists were deemed “inappropriate words” and censored shoppers hoping to engrave their iPad, iPod Touch or Apple Pencil with a custom message. If you want to try, just change your iOS 13.1.1+ device region to Hong Kong, and make sure that the interface language is not set to ‘Traditional Chinese (Taiwan),’ and then you can that the Taiwanese flag is missing…”
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“On the other hand, devices in other regions can add this restriction with software settings. “This means that all Hong Kong devices since iPhone XS / XR with iOS 13.1.1 or above show Taiwanese (ROC) flag in Emoji keyboard any more, and there’s no workaround to pass this restriction,” the article said. The Taiwan flag emoji can still be typed. The Hiraku article stated that, before the 2018 model iPhone XS was released, the region code of Hong Kong was “ZP,” but it was changed to “ZA” after the iPhone XS was released.
If users have a device from another region, but they set the region to Hong Kong or Macau, the Taiwan emoji will also disappear. Taiwan flag emoji disappears from latest Apple iPhone keyboard - Hong Kong Free Press HKFP Close