Lotus flower emoji

Apple has no control over this, take it up with the unicode consortium:

https://home.unicode.org/

That particular one has already been approved by the Unicode Consortium. Wait for a future update.

For reference, Apple and the other platform companies have control over the following:

1. When they implement approved emojis.

2. What glyph they use to represent them.

3. Which flags from countries and similar organizations they implement.

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Zenquility ~ Lotus was approved as part of Unicode 14.0 in 2021, added to Emoji 14.0 in 2021 and

coming soon to iOS 15.4. [Source: Lotus emoji]

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Zenquility1 wrote:

If Apple has no control over this then why does new emoji appear after an update? Don’t they have to be created and approved?

Emojis are one part of an international standard for Unicode character encoding, and which means that the same emojis with the same internal encodings are available across multiple platforms—Mac, Windows, Android, iPhone, Linux, BSD, etc—once each update to the Emoji standard is approved, and after each platform is updated for the then-newest version of the emoji standard. The details of an Emoji can be styled differently by each vendor, but the name of and the internal encoding of an Emoji is the same across all of the vendors supporting that particular version of the Emoji standard, meaning that you can send an emoji to anybody running any client, and they'll see the intended Emoji, styling differences aside.