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
    2022-08-24T20:16:05+00:00

    I've noticed the same thing and the new emoticons are horrible. Here's a temporary fix that may help that I use. I'm on a Mac and the same keyboard shortcut that I use to bring up regular emoticons in my Outlook mail can be used in Teams. I use Control + Command + Space Bar. This brings up a menu of icons like you'd see on an iPhone. I use those instead because these new ones are absolutely ridiculous.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-08-26T22:37:55+00:00

    I just upgraded my computer, started to send an email, opened the emoji choices and was shocked that they had changed. They look terrible!! For now a smiley face will just have to be :) because the emojis are just too embarrassing. Please let us now how to revert back to the previous ones!!!

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-08-31T12:00:47+00:00

    Agree they look unprofessional and idiotic.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-09-01T17:15:26+00:00

    I wonder if these emojis were release by mistake. They look like someone designed them out of spite, or as a weird joke.

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-09-02T09:46:46+00:00

    Classic Emojis seems still alive!!! If you reply to a message with Emoji, in quotation you'll see the old Emoji style! Let's save them!

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