@kaa I thought you were supposed to be able to long-press any of the emoji that had co-opted a prior Unicode character and select the actual Unicode character, but that doesn’t seem to work now :-(
I’m guessing that means, in absence of a custom keyboard that includes the Unicode character, you’d have to set up some sort of snippet or text substitution on the Mac that includes the character and the variation selector that tells apps to use the text presentation rather than the emoji presentation, and then transfer it to iOS.
@smokey So you made me think and I researched a little bit harder and found this thread. Basically you have to append a unicode variation selector after the html character.
This forces the previous character to be rendered as text rather than as an Emoji Symbol.
I'll update my post so that if there is some soul searching on the internet they can sort it out as well.