Samsung Fixes U-V Emoji Mixup

Jeremy Burge

Aug 25, 2020 • 2 min read

For the longest time, Samsung phones had an emoji quirk that resulted in two emojis being mixed up.

For the longest time, 🇺 Regional Indicator Symbol Letter U appeared on Samsung phones as the letter V. Likewise, 🇻 Regional Indicator Symbol Letter V appeared as the letter U on Samsung phones.

Above: Until 2020, Samsung displayed this emoji incorrectly. Image: Vendors / Emojipedia composite.

These obscure characters don't even show on the default emoji keyboard. They are the Regional Indicator Characters that are used to create flag emojis. For instance 🇬 🇧 is used as the codes to create 🇬🇧 Flag: United Kingdom and 🇧 🇷 is used to create 🇧🇷 Flag: Brazil.

The whole set looks like this:

Now in 2020 this has been fixed. Samsung devices updated to version 2.0 of Samsung OneUI (or above) will see the correct letter for each of these.

Above: 🇺 Regional Indicator Symbol Letter U now correctly shows as the letter U on Samsung phones.

🇻 Regional Indicator Symbol Letter V also now correctly shows the letter V in the 2020 updates, instead of U.

Samsung has a history of odd emoji quirks. From the six-digit fingers crossed emoji to the happy 🙄 Face with Rolling Eyes in 2016, most of these have been fixed over the years.

Above: A previous Samsung emoji quirk, fixed in 2016.

This regional indicator emoji bug is far more obscure than previous issues, and has also now been fixed. Who said nothing good is happening in 2020?

Thanks to Emojipedia reader Micah Garnett for pointing this out.