# Animated Emojis on by default

**URL:** <https://devforum.zoom.us/t/animated-emojis-on-by-default/133307>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [May 28, 2025, 6:04pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/animated-emojis-on-by-default/133307 "2025-05-28T18:04:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jonathan9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jonathan9](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/Jonathan9)\
**Post date:** [May 28, 2025, 6:04pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/animated-emojis-on-by-default/133307/1 "2025-05-28T18:04:46Z")

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We would like an option to choose to have Animated Emojis turned on by default from the user settings in a user’s account. As of now, you can turn on the _ability_ to have animated emojis, but then the user must enable animated emojis after they have joined the call.

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**Author:** ![alexm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/devforum.zoom.us/alexm/32/67701_2.png) [@alexm](https://devforum.zoom.us/u/alexm)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2025, 4:03pm UTC](https://devforum.zoom.us/t/animated-emojis-on-by-default/133307/2 "2025-05-29T16:03:25Z")

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For my use case, this would be a nightmare. The change that made it so users had to actively turn that feature on saved me a ton of headaches. The better answer would probably be a two-part setting in the JSON for meeting creation, along the lines of `reaction_emoji: { allowed: <bool (default true)>, enabled: <bool (default false)> }`; where “allowed” means the option to turn them on or off is accessible or not, and “enabled” means they’re on by default if “allowed” is already set to true.