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
    2022-08-01T13:42:09+00:00

    I agree wholeheartedly with everyone here that the new emoji are not fit for purpose and have been adding my vote and comments to as many feedback posts as I can find.

    As an interim solution, you should still be able to use the built-in Windows 10 emoji keyboard. To bring up the built-in emoji keyboard, use the keyboard short cut Windows Key + .

    That is, Windows Key + period (that period is part of the shortcut and not a sentence ender).

    For example, here is an emoji written with the Windows Key + . shortcut: 😎

    The same emoji looks like this now in Teams (actually one of the less unpleasant looking ones - I couldn't bring myself to post an uglier one):

    😎

    They may not be as good as the old 2D Teams emojis but are much better than the new 3D ones.

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  3. Anonymous
    2022-07-29T14:54:22+00:00

    I really really hate them 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

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  4. Anonymous
    2022-07-21T13:01:16+00:00

    I also don't appreciate the look of the new Emoji's. Not suitable at all for professional use. Please revert to the old ones. Thanks!

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  5. Anonymous
    2022-05-27T20:07:09+00:00

    Hi KB_116, I'm Sergio, it's a pleasure to help you.

    You can try after to remove all Teams cache files.

    To delete all cache files, you follow these steps (in Windows):

    a. Fully exit the Microsoft Teams desktop client.

    b. Go to File Explorer, and (Windows 10) type in appdata\Microsoft\teams and remove all the content. In Windows 11 you type AppData\Local\Packages\MicrosoftTeams_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache and remove all the content.

    c. You must restart the app and try again.

    If the problem continue:

    a. uninstall the Team desktop app.

    b. Go to File Explorer, and (Windows 10) type in appdata\Microsoft\teams and remove all the content. In Windows 11 you type AppData\Local\Packages\MicrosoftTeams_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache and remove all the content.

    c. Reboot the computer and install the Team desktop app again.

    I hope that you can solve the problem, please let me know about the result, because other users with the same problem will know what to do.

    Greetings.

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