Do we need to do anything? The selector in the settings looks like this on my instance:
Or is it just so admins are aware of this change, and the deprecated options will vanish without any consequences?
You can entirely disable emojis from the admin settings, but it won’t convert common text smilies such as :) as emojis.
Unicode emojis won’t be converted as images.
The emoji selector will be absent from the composer, which is not a loss on mobiles since all mobile keyboards have an emoji shortcut, but I think most people don’t know how to write emojis on a computer.
Also, cross-linking this as it’s also related to a future emoji set change: