Mac OS doesn't show all the current emoji in the emoji picker in Monterey 12.3.1

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Mac OS doesn't show all the current emoji in the emoji picker in Monterey 12.3.1

For some reason I can't see all the available emoji in the picker on my MacBook. It should be totally up to date with Monterey 12.3.1. There are blank spaces with the missing emoji, and when I hover over them it shows the name of what should be there most of the time. If I click it, depending on the application I'm using it in, it might put the right emoji in. Sometimes it doesn't. Is there a specific update to fix this? Something I could have missed?

Thanks for your help!

Here is what I see when I check it out in the emoji & symbols viewer:

Posted on Apr 13, 2022 10:38 AM

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Kurt Lang

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Apr 13, 2022 11:23 AM in response to volt_tackle

No problem here.

My guess would be the font cache data is damaged.

Close all running applications. From an administrator account, open the Terminal app and enter the following command. You can also copy/paste it from here into the Terminal window:

sudo atsutil databases -remove

This removes all font cache files. Both for the system and the current logged in user. After running the command, close Terminal and immediately restart your Mac.

If that doesn't do it, the OS itself may need to be reinstalled.

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Kurt Lang

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Apr 20, 2022 9:51 AM in response to Kurt Lang

I just checked to see what happens on a Safe Mode startup. The contents of the hidden System folder, com.apple.FontRegistry, gets rebuilt. So a Safe Mode boot now clears the font cache data for both the user and the OS.

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volt_tackle Author

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Apr 14, 2022 10:14 AM in response to Kurt Lang

Hi Kurt,

Thanks for getting back to me. If I need to reinstall the OS, I can do that, but before I do, does this error mean anything useful to this situation:

Removing: /var/folders/zz/zyxvpxvq6csfxvn_n00000c4000031/C/com.apple.FontRegistry

2022-04-14 13:08:54.159 atsutil[1391:38148] Error: Error Domain=NSCocoaErrorDomain Code=4 "“com.apple.FontRegistry” couldn’t be removed." UserInfo={NSUserStringVariant=(

Remove

), NSFilePath=/var/folders/zz/zyxvpxvq6csfxvn_n00000c4000031/C/com.apple.FontRegistry, NSUnderlyingError=0x6000000405d0 {Error Domain=NSPOSIXErrorDomain Code=2 "No such file or directory"}}

Removing: /var/folders/k8/26dkl21d1_v9j8s2g3tqrq080000gn/C/com.apple.FontRegistry

Thanks again for your help!

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Kurt Lang

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Apr 14, 2022 3:25 PM in response to volt_tackle

It should simply return this:

Removing: /private/var/folders/zz/zyxvpxvq6csfxvn_n00000c4000031/C/System

Removing: /private/var/folders/68/11c6b8cx6cs7vn5zgkth0f4m0000gn/C/com.apple.FontRegistry

But I see what's wrong. Apple moved the font cache location, but Terminal is still looking for it in the old spot. One is now at:

/private/var/folders/dr/xpx6ms_14plbf4_dgtnsmx9w0000gn/C/com.apple.FontRegistry

The other with a folder (or file) name of System no longer exists in the private folder.

Anyway, you can try this:

sudo atsutil databases -removeUser

Since that only removes the font cache files for the active user account, you may not need to use sudo. Otherwise, the longer way around is to start up in Safe Mode, then restart normally. Among other things a Safe Mode startup does, it removes all cache files of the user account you logged into. However, I don't know if that includes the font cache data.

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Mac OS doesn't show all the current emoji in the emoji picker in Monterey 12.3.1

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