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Anytime, for several months now, I hit reply to an email that has an emoji within it, Outlook for Mac completely freezes up for a long time. I've created multiple support sessions within Outlook trying to resolve this. They don't understand the issue. Anyone here have any insight? I am on a 2019 iMac running Ventura 13.0. Outlook version is 16.66.1 (22101101). This is a business PC with an Exchange email account on it.
Using older versions of Outlook for Mac for personal email and calendar
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Same issue. If I try to add an emoji, it freezes for about a minute or more. But ultimately adds the emoji. I now avoid emojis, LOL.
Yes same here - have the problem on a MacBook Pro 2017 with Intel i7 - DO not have it on a MacBook Pro 2021 with M1Max.
Same problem. I have noticed that there are 2 library folders where the fonts are stored; is it possible that the emoji font is in the wrong one? I haven't tried moving it. Also noticed that my newer MacBook Pro with Apple silicon doesn't have the problem. Seeing the problem on a 2017 IMac.
Same here, it has been happening for at least 6 months now, super annoying that Outlook freezes for 1-2 minutes just because you insert an emoji.
macOS Ventura 13.1
Outlook 16.68 (22121100)
I've been having the same issue for months. It appears that generating the emoji within the text field is what causes the freeze. I experience it both if I type a "smiley" like :) —outlook/mac automatically tries to replace it with the smiley face emoji, or, as others have described, if I reply to an email that already has an emoji in it.