Teams - Revert to Classic Emojis

Anonymous
2022-05-27T15:38:41+00:00

Greetings!

Microsoft Teams recently rolled out the Microsoft Fluent emoji style in Teams. This change altered all emojis and reactions across the platform and made them look incredibly displeasurable and unusual. In a business environment, I would venture to say the updated emojis are unusable due to the fact that they are so silly (for lack of a better word). I have thus far been unable to revert the emojis back to the way they were before this update; however, I would like to do this, as would my team. Is there any way to revert the emojis back to the way they were before this Microsoft Fluent emoji style update?

Thanks for any insight!

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  1. Anonymous
    2022-08-17T14:43:10+00:00

    You may want to log a feature request; describe what you want as an "idea" and then post your link here and let people up-vote it: https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/39d837d7-6512-ed11-a81b-6045bd7d68ae

    I was told the Microsoft works on the items with the most up-votes. All of the comments - thousands of them... I don't know if they have some AI script that groups and pools the related content, otherwise our voices are watered down. If you post a link to a request that you open, I will 'up-vote' it.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-08-16T09:59:37+00:00

    I hate these new emojis and I can't use them in a professional setting. I have reverted to the windows ones where I want to use an emoji (windowskey + . (period) for anyone else struggling)

    Microsoft has now merged all the upvoted feedback into a "feedback collection' without consolidating the votes, or any links to the originals to allow them to be reviewed. If you've not spotted it already please upvote the new one: https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/77fa83ab-c319-ed11-b83e-000d3a4d92e4

    Poor show Microsoft but I guess not surprising.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-08-15T23:41:13+00:00

    I agree with everyone on this thread. We need to make it clear to Microsoft that we are not just complaining about the style of these emojis. It's also about the difficulty in interpreting the emotions they are supposed to represent and the potential for workplace misunderstandings. I've created a separate post to that effect here:

    https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msteams/forum/all/difficulty-interpreting-emotions-being-expressed/00178845-51c7-4bb0-aaff-fa431d50c34b

    I don't know if another post will help but I can't sit silent about this because I really do think it's already made our work chats less authentic and more confusing. I'm also wondering if we can make an accessibility complaint, given how unclear the emojis are from a visual standpoint.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-08-15T23:11:12+00:00

    People keep focusing on the childish appearance of the emojis. I agree 100%, but Microsoft won't listen to this as they'll just assume you don't like the style.

    What we need to make clear is that at any reasonable screen resolution, these emojis are indistinguishable from one another.

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-08-15T16:39:17+00:00

    Agreed. See my objection on the original announcement blog post by Microsoft.

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