Using Emojis 

Available in Mattermost Free and Starter subscription plans. Available for Mattermost Cloud deployments. Available for Mattermost Self-Hosted deployments.

Emojis are small, digital images or icons used to communicate or express concepts such as emotions and physical gestures in your messages.

Adding Emojis to messages 

Selecting an emoji 

Select the Smile icon. icon inside the Mattermost message input box to open the Emoji Picker.

The Mattermost Emoji Picker dialog.

Selecting a default skin tone 

Select the Skin Tone icon in the top right corner of the Emoji Picker to specify a preferred skin tone for people-based emojis.

Select a default skin tone for people-based emojis.

Selecting recent emojis 

From Mattermost v6.1 and in Mattermost Cloud, react to messages quickly by selecting a recently-used emoji while hovering over a message. If your most recent reactions aren’t visible, you can enable quick reactions by selecting Settings > Display > Quick reactions on messages.

React to messages quickly by selecting one of your last three emojis.

Typing an emoji 

Alternatively, open the emoji autocomplete by typing : followed by at least two characters of the word describing the emoji. Descriptions include skin tone details for people-based emojis, where supported.

Emoji Autocomplete

It’s also possible to create your own custom emoji if the emoji you want to use doesn’t exist.

Creating Custom Emojis 

You can create Custom Emojis which are available to everyone on your Mattermost server. From the Emoji Picker, select Custom Emoji. Small, square pictures work best when selecting an image to upload. The file can be any JPG, GIF, or PNG and up to 1 MB in size.

  1. Enter a name for your Custom Emoji. This is the name that will show up in the emoji autocomplete.

  2. Choose Select, then select the image to use for the emoji.

  3. Select Save.

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Once saved, your emoji is added to the list of Custom Emoji.

Note

If you can’t see the Custom Emoji option, then your Mattermost System Admin may have restricted access to certain users. Contact your Mattermost System Admin for help.

For further assistance, review the Troubleshooting forum for previously reported errors, or join the Mattermost user community for troubleshooting help.

Using Custom Emojis 

To use your Custom Emoji in a message, simply type : followed by your emoji name to bring it up in the emoji autocomplete. Other users on the site will also be able to see your emoji in the autocomplete, and will be able to use it in their own messages.

Deleting Custom Emojis 

You can delete Custom Emojis that you created.

  1. Open the Emoji Picker.

  2. Select Custom Emoji.

  3. If required, use the Search Bar to find your Custom Emoji in the list.

  4. Under Actions select Delete.

  5. Choose Delete to confirm.

Delete custom emoji.