How do I stop Microsoft Teams from converting smileys to emojis?

Whenever I try to type a smiley face in Microsoft Teams, it gets automatically converted into an emoji. This means :) -> 🙂, <3 -> , etc. Other chat applications like Discord have options to disable auto-emoji, but Teams seems to be missing this.

How do I stop Microsoft Teams from auto-converting smileys into emojis?


Unfortunately, Microsoft Teams does not have a way to disable automatic conversion of smileys to emojis. As a workaround, you can undo the emoji conversion by pressing Ctrl+Z.

Undo emoji with Ctrl+Z