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MicrosoftNow in public preview: Fluent Emojis
Description
Microsoft is releasing the new Fluent Emojis update, refreshing 1800+ emojis. The new emojis bring a modern and delightful new version of the emojis we use every day. Whether for work, school, or life, the new emojis will bring the power of fun and play into every message or reaction!
Users will see a new take on most of the previous Teams emojis, along with some new picks! All skintone-enabled emojis will continue to have 6 skintone options.
These are the specific changes:
- Emojis in chat and channels messaging will update to the new Fluent style, along with delightful animations for applicable emojis
- Reactions in chat, channels, and live meeting reactions will update to the new Fluent style
For more background on the Fluent Emojis, feel free to read this blog post from our Fluent Design team! An Emoji For Your Thoughts. Microsoft’s new emojis | by Microsoft Design | Microsoft Design | Medium
Screenshots
Fluent emojs in the new emoji picker:
A preview of many of the new emojis:
Flighting status
Available now on Desktop, Web, Mobile, and Meetings.
How to enable
Enabled by default for all tenants.
Note: If you need information about enabling the public preview itself, see “Enable the public preview for Teams” below.
Supported clients and platforms
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Known issues
- Some emojis may blend in with certain backgrounds or Teams theming (ex. Ghost on light mode or Spades on dark mode).
Known limitations
- N/A
Enable your Teams client for the public preview
- First, IT admins need to set an update policy that turns on Show preview features. Learn how at Public preview in Microsoft Teams - Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Docs.
- Users then choose to join the public preview individually. See Get early access to new Teams features - Office Support (microsoft.com) for instructions.
Summary of public preview features
For a history of features in the Office and Teams public previews, see Release Notes Current Channel (Preview) - Office release notes | Microsoft Docs.
Send us your feedback
Got feedback on features in the public preview or other areas of Teams? Let us know straight from Teams via Help > Give feedback.
Thank you,
Preview Team, Jason_Schumacher
Quality & Customer Obsession, Microsoft Teams
52 Replies
- The new emojis are an abomination. How do we disabled them???
- Those new emojis are far too busy-looking (I'm being polite here). The previous version was simple/clean and easy to distinguish. Very bad decision to change them
- a lot of people at work use emojis at minimum, since most of our communications are official. These emojis are too fun for office use, maybe good for a chat/dating app.
- Emojis for kids.... just another "Microsoft knows best" change. The attitude will be "Ignore them for long enough to accept the change".
- I really do hope not...not this time
- These thins are absolutely hideous. Please revert the change and fire whoever approved/requested this redesign.
Dear god why though..?
I mean - little kids might love 'em, but little kids are hardly the target audience for a business product like Office 365 and Microsoft Teams..
They are just soooo over the top cutesy - I find them pretty vomitous really.
I quite like that they move, but why oh why are they so sickeningly babyish on a business product?
For everyone dissatisfied with the new, static, flat/2D Fluent emojis shipped with Windows 11, there's an easy way to replace the "Segoe UI Emoji" font in your C:\Windows\Fonts folder with version 1.31 (shipped with an early version of Windows 11, featuring updated versions of Unicode 13.0 emojis, however still with the old Modern design, with a thick black outline).
I wrote some posts about this on Reddit.
Read a wee bit more about the various versions of the "Segoe UI Emoji" (and download 'em too) https://reddit.com/r/Windows11/comments/qkaq56/is_there_an_option_to_use_old_windows_emoji_in/hl1bwo0/.
Learn how to properly install them https://reddit.com/r/Windows11/comments/q85c70/comment/hgqnra2/.
Note: These instructions refer to Windows' own global emoji support. I don't use Microsoft Teams very much, and I'm not sure at all if it relies on the OS's font files or if somehow it has its own assets and stuff; it is possible that, after replacing the newer Fluent ones with the older Modern ones (for example, shown in Windows' emoji picker), they could still appear in many places in Teams -- in particular the animated emojis, which were heavily advertised as one of the highlights of then upcoming Windows 11 (and that promise never came to fruition, being exclusive to Teams, ugh) and which have no direct equivalent anywhere in Windows 10's old apps.
- The fluent emojis promised in the salespitch https://vimeo.com/573224898, got implemented as sunburnt pixellated blobs. ouch.
Everyone is saying the same thing in my company, the new emojis are absolutely the creepiest emojis we have ever seen. Is there a way to use the previous standard ones? I mean they are worse than what Telegram is using, who approved this?
- This new emojis are not professional. Please consider giving a way to switch on previous icons.
These "things" are now live and I really miss the previous ones.
These new emojis are way too fancy/cute for professional use. I feel childish each time I use one and have been barely using them lately.
I even cancelled some messages altogether due the the lack of an appropriate emoji to set the tone of my message without misunderstanding.
You should really consider giving access to the classic ones in parallel or instead of these.
- Fully agree. I want to go back.
But for the time being, you can still use the Windows Emoji's; Windows logo key + . (period). They have the old, professional look.
