Emojis not rendering in Field App for Android devices?

ChaseGunnell — Fri, 22 May 2026 23:11:46 GMT

Hello!

I've been developing a form in Survey123 Connect version 3.25.27 that uses emojis in the labels for some notes and groups. While testing the form, I noticed these emojis weren't showing up at all on my Android device (Pixel 6a, Android 16). They do, however, show up fine on my colleagues iOS devices. We tested a different Android device (Samsung Galaxy S25) and found they didn't show there, either.

I made a test note with multiple different emojis and found that only the "flag" emojis rendered on Android:


How the form appears in Survey123 Connect	How the form appears on iOS devices	How the form appears on Android devices

All of the devices we tested are running version 3.25.32.

I tried seeing if displaying them using different methods fixed the issue including:

directly copy-pasting the emojis from an external source
using HTML number codes
referencing a calculate question with the HTML code as the calculation,

But none of these methods changed this behavior. The test note uses all three of these methods:

I even tested one of the Esri template surveys (Daily Fishing Log) and found that the emojis on that form don't show up my device either.

They obviously aren't critical to form function, but I do use them to help differentiate sections, for data validation, and to highlight key information. Any help or insight on this issue would be appreciated.

Thank you!

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Emojis not rendering in Field App for Android devices?