Microsoft Teams now supports more emoji reactions

Microsoft Teams Android
Microsoft Teams Android (Image credit: Windows Central)

What you need to know

  • Microsoft Teams now supports six emoji reactions to messages.
  • These reactions look like their counterparts on Skype.
  • Competing service Slack supports a massive library of emoji reactions.

The new emojis include a heart, a happy face, an angst face, and a sad face. These illustrate a much wider range of emotion than the previous option, which was just a thumbs up. That being said, Microsoft Teams still trails Slack when it comes to emoji reactions. Slack supports a massive library of reactions. There's even a Windows Central Nyan cat reaction in our Slack chat at Mobile Nations.

The new reaction emojis are available on both the mobile and desktop versions of Microsoft Teams.

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