[$250] iOS - Chat - Emojis are not displayed properly in the emoji picker

[lanitochka17]

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Version Number: 1.4.62-14
Reproducible in staging?: Y
Reproducible in production?: N
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail: N/A
Issue reported by: Applause - Internal Team

Action Performed:

1. Launch New Expensify app
2. Go to any chat
3. Open emoji picker

Expected Result:

The emojis are displayed properly in the emoji picker

Actual Result:

The emojis are not displayed properly in the emoji picker

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

Which of our officially supported platforms is this issue occurring on?

• Android: Native
• Android: mWeb Chrome
• iOS: Native
• iOS: mWeb Safari
• MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• MacOS: Desktop

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Bug6452508_1713368952576.RPReplay_Final1713368836.mp4

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[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @rlinoz (DeployBlockerCash), see https://stackoverflowteams.com/c/expensify/questions/9980/ for more details.

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[lanitochka17]

@rlinoz FYI I haven't added the External label as I wasn't 100% sure about this issue. Please take a look and add the label if you agree it's a bug and can be handled by external contributors

[lanitochka17]

We think that this bug might be related to #vip-vsb

[rlinoz]

Not being able to repro, gonna ask for help on slack

[dylanexpensify]

Can repro @rlinoz!

[rlinoz]

Hmmm maybe this is related to FlashList as well.

App/src/components/EmojiPicker/EmojiPickerMenu/BaseEmojiPickerMenu.tsx

Line 103 in 51bebd5

<FlashList

[rlinoz]

Ok, after cleaning node modules and starting over it is reproducible in the emulator.

[rlinoz]

I'm not sure how to solve this and I gotta go, so I will open up for proposals.