Emojis in iOS notifications stopped working in 2022.7

[reesion]

The problem

iOS notifications with emoji/surrogate codes not working after 2022.7 update

What version of Home Assistant Core has the issue?

2022.7.3

What was the last working version of Home Assistant Core?

2022.6.7

What type of installation are you running?

Home Assistant Supervised

Integration causing the issue

iOS

Link to integration documentation on our website

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Diagnostics information

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Example YAML snippet

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Anything in the logs that might be useful for us?

No response

Additional information

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[frenck]

Do you have an example service call we can use to reproduce this issue?

[SenMorgan]

I have the same issue. Example of call:
- service: notify.mobile_app data: title: "{{ 'ℹ️' }} System Notification" message: Home Assistant started {{ '\uD83D\uDC4C' }} at {{ states('sensor.time') }}

[reesion]

Do you have an example service call we can use to reproduce this issue?

service: notify.mobile_app_iphone_2
data:
message: 'Garage Entry {{ "\uD83D\uDCA1" }} has been turned off: {{now().strftime("%H:%M:%S %a, %d/%m/%Y")}}'

[BenHornerTech]

Same issue for me. I have the below set up as a notification which worked fine until 2022.7 and does work if I remove the emojis.

The below sends no notification:

service: notify.all_ios_devices
data:
  message: How wonderful! {{ "\ud83d\ude0d" }}
  title: They are back

The below works:

service: notify.all_ios_devices
data:
  message: How wonderful! {{ "hello" }}
  title: They are back

[BenHornerTech]

As an update, I found that if I changed:

message: How wonderful! {{ "\ud83d\ude0d" }}

to this:

message: "How wonderful! \ud83d\ude0d"

It works

[DHoefakker]

As an update, I found that if I changed:

message: How wonderful! {{ "\ud83d\ude0d" }}

to this:

message: "How wonderful! \ud83d\ude0d"

It works

For me it still doesn't work in "title", tried both options.
The notification only is send when "only text" is used in title.

[reesion]

A work around will be to paste the emoji symbol directly into your text / code (e.g., 💡)

message: 'Garage Entry 💡 has been turned off: {{now().strftime("%H:%M:%S %a, %d/%m/%Y")}}'

[rwarner]

Have the same issue, was working fine in Title until recently. Referenced this other ticket with a UTF-8 error in the log: #75621

title: "\uD83D\uDCEB\uD83D\uDCEB  Mail has arrived  \uD83D\uDCEB\uD83D\uDCEB"

Will note that in the Services tab, when I attempt the same it works in the front end but not in my automation

[EmJay276]

Its the same problem for Android notifications.

As an update, I found that if I changed:

message: How wonderful! {{ "\ud83d\ude0d" }}

to this:

message: "How wonderful! \ud83d\ude0d"

It works

But this here worked for me too. Thanks!

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