How to Turn Off Automatic Emoji Conversion in Slack


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Emoji are just about everywhere these times. In many apps—such as Slack—you just cannot sort a easy text-based mostly emoticon like “:)” or “:D” with no acquiring it automatically translated into a small emoji image. The good thing is, Slack lets you to disable this aspect in the desktop or web consumer. Here’s how.

First, you will need to open up “Slack Preferences.” At the moment, it appears like you just cannot switch off this element in the Slack cellular applications, so we’ll only be doing work with Slack’s desktop and web clients. In the Home windows desktop Slack app, simply click the hamburger button in the upper-remaining corner and pick File > Choices. Or you can push Ctrl + Comma.

In the Slack application for Macs or if you’re applying Slack in a internet browser, click the workspace title in the higher-remaining corner and pick out “Preferences.” You can also push Command + Comma on the Mac to open up “Preferences.”

In the “Preferences” menu, pick “Messages & media” from the sidebar.

In “Messages and media” preferences, scroll down to the “Emoji” section and eliminate the test from the box beside “Convert my typed emoticons into emoji.”

Just after that, shut “Preferences.” The future time you kind a “:)” or a “:D” or any other text-primarily based emoticons into Slack, they will not be translated into Emoji.

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