How can I disable the unicode black telephone from being rendered as a red phone on iOS Mail app?

Question

I am using the unicode black telephone character (☎ U+260E) in html email. On the iOS Mail app (tested on iPhone and iPad) the black telephone character is rendered as a illustr

Answer 1

I cannot test this in iOS Mail, and I doubt whether it will work there, but this is the way that a specific glyph variant could be selected. According to the Unicode Standard, you can select a standardized variant “BLACK TELEPHONE text style” (as opposite to “BLACK TELEPHONE emoji style”) by immediately following U+260E by the control character U+FE0E VARIATION SELECTOR-15.

In HTML, the character sequence U+260E U+FE0E can be written as ☎︎.

But I’m afraid software support to variation selectors is still very limited. For example, web browsers seem to fail with it in different ways.