Changing your quick reaction emoji in Teams

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Overview

Microsoft Teams lets you react to posts and messages with emoji. Several emoji are set as your quick reactions by default, including: a thumbs up, a red heart, and two or three faces.

This article demonstrates how to swap out your default quick emoji for different ones.

The example we'll be using shows replacing the red heart with a purple heart. If you use Teams on multiple devices, you may need to repeat these steps on each device.

Teams for desktop and web 

  1. Hover over any post or message, like you're going to emoji react
  2. Select the More reactions icon
    A screenshot of Microsoft Teams showing the More Reactions button highlighted with a yellow arrow. More Reactions is the fifth emoji option, represented by a gray and white smiling face with a small plus sign on it.
     
  3. Select the Customize default reactions icon
    A screenshot of Microsoft Teams showing the Customize Default Reactions button highlighted with a yellow arrow. Customize Default Actions is to the right of the emoji search box, represented by a gray and white smiley face with a gray pencil on it.
     
  4. Select the emoji you'd like to replace
    A screenshot of a popup titled Customize your reactions and appearance in Teams. The heart emoji is selected.
     
  5. Select a new emoji from the options; you can type in the box that says Find something fun to quickly search emoji
    A screenshot of the emoji search pop up in Microsoft Teams. The word purple has been typed into the search box, and a yellow arrow is pointing at the purple heart.
     
  6. Now your new emoji selections are displayed! Click Save

Teams mobile apps 

  1. Long press any post or message, like you're going to emoji react
  2. Tap the plus sign
    A screenshot of the Teams mobile emoji react menu. A plus sign, located to the right of five quick react emojis, is highlighted with a yellow arrow.
     
  3. Tap Customize
    A screenshot of the Teams mobile reaction selection pop up. The Customize option, just below the search box and on the right side of the pop up, is highlighted with a yellow arrow.
     
  4. Tap the emoji to replace, then find and tap the new emoji you'd like to swap in; you can use the search box to quickly find what you're looking for
    A screenshot of the Edit Reaction screen in Teams mobile app. The red heart has been selected, the word "purple" has been entered into the search box. The red heart and the purple heart are highlighted with yellow arrows.
     
  5. Tap Done
    A screenshot of the Edit Reaction screen in Teams mobile app. The Done button located at the top right has been highlighted with a yellow arrow.

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Article ID: 141249
Created
Thu 5/14/26 5:04 PM
Modified
Fri 5/15/26 1:00 PM