All the Emojis are Here ... Zoom Reactions Have Changed Again!

Have you missed giving a Thumbs Down in Zoom or felt like the small suite of Zoom emoji options did not adequately convey your mood? If so, you will be pleased to know that Zoom has updated their Reactions again. If however, you are NOT interested in emojis, you will be pleased to know that you can ignore them, or even disable them for your meetings.

Beginning with 5.6.3 (706), you can access hundreds of emojis via the Reactions Button. Click on the three dots on the top right-hand side, and you will see the emojis organized by type:

Is there anything particularly useful for a class or collaborative meeting?

As you can see from the image above, this is an additional path to changing the skin tone of some reactions, and that’s helpful. In addition, the following reactions that used to be included as standard in Zoom, and have been missed by some instructors, are back.

Thumbs Down: Search for “thumb”

Busy / Just stepped out: search for “coffee”

These are too many emojis. Can you disable them?

Yes. In your Settings at umn.zoom.us, under In Meeting Basics, scroll to Meeting reactions you can either toggle between All emojis and Selected emojis or toggle all Meeting reactions off.

If you adjust your settings to turn off Meeting reactions, you can still leave non-verbal feedback on, so that participants can raise their hands. Here is what the Reactions Button looks like with those settings: