How to deactivate emoji

[CHRISTINE SOARIZIKY]

Hi 

as soon as you enter “:” in confluence, it automatically switches to smiley insertion mode. And if we not do ESC but continue typing and press enter, this deletes the last word by putting “no emoticon found”

How to overcome this?
THANKS.

[Nikola Perisic]

Welcome to the community @CHRISTINE SOARIZIKY !

Ah yes, this question is pretty common among the community. The most accurate answer could be found here:

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Disabling-emojis/qaq-p/1333211

Check out Doung Yu's comment.

Also from here: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-do-you-disable-emoticons-Site-or-space-wide-in-Confluence/qaq-p/1170690

And I quote:

" The short answer is you won’t be able to disable the emojis within Confluence on a site or space level. You can disable autocomplete within your profile to prevent emojis from being created."

[Cyrille Martin]

Hi Christine,

Disable emojis

Don't want your :) to turn into a smiley face? You can use Ctrl+z to undo the conversion, or turn this feature off altogether by disabling keyboard shortcuts.

To disable keyboard shortcuts:

• Select your avatar from the top right, then select Settings. This will open your personal settings for Confluence.
• Select Edit, then uncheck the box labeled Enable next to Keyboard Shortcuts.
• Select Submit to confirm your changes.

If you change your mind, you can always enable keyboard shortcuts again.

Best Regards

Cyrille

[Nikola Perisic]

Hey @Cyrille Martin , I've tried this but it still is showing the emojis. There was even a ticket raised: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-78858?focusedCommentId=3129684&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel#comment-3129684

[Alfred Barnat]

Yes, these instructions do not actually appear to work at all. They're also not really an appropriate solution, since the kind of person who finds automated emoji and other popups/replacements frustrating is exactly the kind of person likely to make use of keyboard shortcuts.

It's honestly somewhat incredible this apparently 10-year old issue still exists. Atlassian makes professional products likely to be used by people who type fast enough that constantly being interrupted as standard characters are replaced by interactive popups, emoji, and other nonsense are going to be a significant annoyance.

Text replacement features based on commonly typed characters like ":" or "[" are a huge pain, and there really needs to be an off switch. There's already a shortcut to create links and a button for the rare occasion someone actually wants to enter an emoji. Not to mention most OSs have a built-in emoji selector these days which, according to a quick test, appears to work just fine with Confluence.