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
    2022-11-21T15:30:21+00:00

    These emoji are embarrassingly childish and unusable.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-12-08T23:06:02+00:00

    As I write this, there have been 74k+ view of this thread, and we're nearing 200 replies here. I wonder how many people wrote in to MS saying how much they love the new emojis?

    Please, Microsoft, revert to the original emojis in your Teams product!

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-12-09T14:01:19+00:00

    Or let us choose (or upload) icon sets for the emojis? Anything!

    I cannot bring myself to use these in Teams, which maybe is for the better. But I do think they can help convey emotion in the written word, but the current set is not usable.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-12-09T16:45:46+00:00

    The new emojis are not appropriate for business settings. PLEASE revert back to the previous ones or offer the option!

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-12-12T16:01:13+00:00

    Just adding another request on top of the pile to allow us to use the old emoji set. I'm sure someone worked very hard on them, but in my work context they just don't provide anything I actually want to use to express myself. Even the most basic smiley is just so...uncanny valley.

    Edit: Also, the feedback links in the first few posts of this thread are closed. Does that mean this will get some attention?

    Edit 2: After reading a couple of pages of comments, I can understand that there may be business reasons for MS not to want to revert. Users don't want it to be a customization setting because what looks like a classic emoji to me might show up as the cartoonish new version for you. To me, it doesn't seem like an overly burdensome request to just include a new tab for classic emojis. They're already designed, as long as compatibility isn't broken, it should work, and it wouldn't add much bloat to the program...maybe a few dozen MB? Pretty please?

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