An ability to change the color of the emojis
I'm a brown person, and I'd like to be able to choose a brown hand for the thumbs up sign and some of the face emoji's. The globe is a colorful place
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dave dudek
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It would be great if this was an option in the Mac and web versions as well as Windows. It looks like it is only available in Windows for now.
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Volker Siepmann
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I don't know when it came, but you can now right-click on the relevant emojis and select among 6 skin colors.
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Anonymous
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What is taking so long to do this? It should be a drop down menu that allows you to pick your skin tone. So sick and tired of these things being ignored. If MS can't figure it out, then make the thumbs up blue or red.
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Anonymous
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It looks like this feature is on the way!! https://www.onmsft.com/news/microsoft-teams-public-preview-adds-over-800-emojis-and-new-in-meeting-sharing-experience
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Deb
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Agreed. Has this been enabled?
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Alvin Thompson
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This really should be done, and as others have said similar apps have long since done this. Even if you're not, some people will think you're making some sort of statement by refusing to put this feature in.
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Cassie Eichenberger
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I'm shocked this is not up front in the backlog. Please bump this up.
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Dawn
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Wait. This has been a request since 2019 and (only) Teams hasn't gotten with this century and given skin tone modification options? PLEASE MAKE THIS UPDATE ASAP. #BLM
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Dave G.
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Agreed!
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Rolland C Coutinho
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I am a brown person from India and I work professionally with the FAA. Having a Caucasian "thumbs up emoji" available is inappropriate. The least that can be accomplished is to have a simple variety of colors available: Caucasian, Chinese, African-American, Indian Subcontinent.
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Mark Lewis
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Long overdue! #DEI
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Jillian
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PLEASE make this change
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JR
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Hope this option is coming soon .. #represent
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Rudy
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Good too see I am not on a island on this. Their Microsoft Yammer product already has this capability so really makes no sense. The small things are BIG things and matter !!!
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Anonymous
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Agree - this must be a simple fix, and MS Teams needs to add this functionality...quickly.
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Anonymous
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Agree. A co-worker and I were lamenting on the same topic just a few weeks ago. Yes a range of skin tones are needed for the emojis.
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Anonymous
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Absolutely agree. As companies continues to focus on DE&I initiatives, I would love to see more inclusion possibilities within the Teams platform. If you can select a skin tone with Zoom, you should be able to with all Microsoft platforms.
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Jessica Taylor
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Microsoft this must be an easy fix! Please
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anon
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Seems like a simple idea with valuable outcome. Why delay?
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Joanie Mackowski
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Yes: there need to be more colors for these emojis. It's not because I need an emoji perfectly to represent what I actually look like; it's because continuing to pretend that humans have one "normal" skin color is a huge problem around the world. Don't make everyone identify with a single tan-yellowish skin. Honestly, I'd prefer a big range of colors, not necessarily "skin tones": let a person choose to have a purple thumbs up or green, etc.