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Apple Color Emoji font disappears from InDesign document on iMac

Weird issue using the Apple Color Emoji font! Help?


I'm making a poster and wanted to insert some emojis using the Apple Color Emoji font, which I have used before. So I did. It looked great. But naturally the people who commissioned the poster had some changes. When I RE-OPENED the file (Indesign 2026) a few hours later—all the emojis were missing. And I can't figure out how to get them back. I checked in FontBook and the Emoji font is installed and validated. To be clear, same machine, same day.


I'm on a 24-inch iMac with M1, built in 2021, running MacOS Tahoe, 26.6.1.

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Probably best to ask in the Adobe support forums for Indesign.