Unable to use emojis in App: Rejected to submit to AppStore

Question

Does anybody know if ALL emojis are property of Apple. I am trying to use a lot of them (around 80) in my app as text but App was rejected.

I asked if there was a list of emojis that I cannot use but got no answer, if you have already been rejected by AppStore submission process you will know that it may be handled by robots, not people.

I would like to know if only food emojis.. or faces are restricted or ALL of them emojis.

Thanks !!

Answer 1

I had recently faced the same rejection under 5.2.5. I had also tried using unicode character representation of emojis in code, instead of hard coded emojis directly in strings like "🎉" But my app was still rejected, this is one of the latest rules added in the guidelines so I am assuming that the apps submitted before this rule was added, might be using all those emojis !

In short - Can't use Apple's emojis in our applications anymore.

Update: You can add EmojiOne as an alternative to display emojis in your application, but those would be pngs.

Answer 2

I just had a 5-year-old app rejected because I used a couple of emojis to customize buttons.

emoji for slider and for stepper up and down

Answer 3

From your words it looks like apple rejected your application due to you have used content for which they have copyrights & that someone can not use on its own.

Here are some apples rules that can causes the rejections :

• Any one can not use Apple graphics or Emojis like any of the content which is already created by them & have owns copyrights & its their own assets
• Any one can not create a similar similar graphics as well as they have trademarks of it & that assets are representing identity of Apple

Regarding your issue :

• You can not use similar emojis as apple inbuilt apps, features have in their own apps
• There is no restriction on how or which kind of emojis you needs to show in your app but it must be Unique & not copied from any where

I hope this will help.