# Disable auto-emoji in chat
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-auto-emoji-in-chat/322137
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** chat
**Created:** [August 18, 2024, 7:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-auto-emoji-in-chat/322137 "2024-08-18T07:55:36Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@sok777](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sok777)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2024, 7:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-auto-emoji-in-chat/322137/1 "2024-08-18T07:55:37Z")
Hi! is there a way to disable auto-emoji such as 🙂 `:)` in the chat too? Right now the setting only applies to topic and posts.
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### Author:  [@Firepup650](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Firepup650)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2024, 4:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-auto-emoji-in-chat/322137/2 "2024-08-18T16:03:06Z")
There is not, I opened a bug report about it a while back:
> [@Emoji shortcuts setting ignored in chat when turned off](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emoji-shortcuts-setting-ignored-in-chat-when-turned-off/293961):
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> The site setting enable emoji shortcuts doesn’t seem to work on [34a83fe1c8](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commits/34a83fe1c8da417aeed81a2cc0a90cc7fc69841a) in chat, :/, :), :D, etc will still change to their emoji variants with it off.
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2025, 4:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-auto-emoji-in-chat/322137/3 "2025-06-24T16:39:48Z")
Fixed in [Disable emoji shortcuts in chat - #6 by j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-emoji-shortcuts-in-chat/371201/6)
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### Author:  [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2025, 4:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-auto-emoji-in-chat/322137/4 "2025-06-24T16:39:52Z")