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
    2023-01-16T17:10:39+00:00

    I 100% agree. they are a little disturbing.

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  2. Anonymous
    2022-10-28T15:47:40+00:00

    @Microsoft, we're months into this thing and I still cringe everytime I want to add an emoji. There are countless feature requests to vote for a return to the old emoji set, and literally 175 replies to this one thread (and there are others). It's overdue.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-10-24T19:36:07+00:00

    Hello Microsoft developers.

    Yes, please give the users the tools for utilizing the former smiley set. The new set is totally unusable specially for the older generation. I'm close to 60 and I use smilies all the time in email and on forums. I find the new set highly undesirable so much so that I won't use it. IMHO it has ruined the smiley experience for me. Please listen to the user base and change them to the old style. There's an old saying: If it ain't broken, don't fix it.

    Changing things just for for the sake of change doesn't always produce a welcomed result and surely this is the case now.

    Thanks.

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-09-05T12:48:37+00:00

    As far as I'm concerned, I've totally stopped using those emojis.
    I use text ones, putting extra space to prevent auto substitution so
    : )
    : D
    ...

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-09-04T21:40:21+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.

    "Never attribute to spite or a weird joke, that which can be adequately explained by a complete disregard for your users." - Robert J. Hanlon

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