Animated Reactions?

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December 12, 2022
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I was on a meeting yesterday (Sunday, December 11th) and some popup informed me I now had animated reactions or emoticons. Sure enough...the hands clapping were clapping...it was cool. But, I cannot find any documentation or settings for that feature now.

Best answer by YaBoiB

Hi @vegasdood,

I'm sorry, but that function has been pushed back a week. Please see https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/11379651024909-Release-notes-for-December-19-2022.

We are so glad that you enjoyed the function, and we hope to continue to add functionality to the product that our customers appreciate.

Regards,

Brandon

YaBoiBAnswer

Community Champion | Employee

Hi @vegasdood,

I'm sorry, but that function has been pushed back a week. Please see https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/11379651024909-Release-notes-for-December-19-2022.

We are so glad that you enjoyed the function, and we hope to continue to add functionality to the product that our customers appreciate.

Regards,

Brandon

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River36

Newcomer

Could you please reinstate static reactions as the default? The animated reactions don’t express what I previously was able to express by using the initial Zoom reactions. For example, I would often use the “heart” reaction to express empathy with the speaker’s grief, as many other people do, but the animated “heart” reaction is a sparkly heart, which would be inappropriate when a speaker is grieving. Also, when I choose the "applause" reaction, I want to express enthusiastic applause, but the animated “applause” reaction is a slow, rhythmic clapping, and such clapping is often read as sarcasm. For example, see TV Tropes’s description of “slow, rhythmic, sarcastic clapping: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SarcasticClapping

More broadly, I don’t want to use animated reactions because they can distract others from what the speaker is saying. And sometimes I need to have my camera off so reactions are the only way that I can easily communicate empathy or agreement when it’s not my turn to speak, especially during my fairly frequent Zoom calls with a blind person who asks that we don’t use the chat because it interferes with his screen reader.

So how can I easily turn off animated reactions, so no one sees them when I react? I’d like to turn animations off for good and not each time that I want to react.

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ubuntourist

Newcomer

Hey @River36 you are able to disable 'Animate these emojis', within the Zoom client settings > General > disable 'Animate these emojis: 👏👍😂😯❤️🎉'

Alas, this setting is missing from the Linux version.

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Jadedetrey

Newcomer

Hello,

I have the exact same message and request as the above user: TT8 - Listener. I am part of a chronic pain and illness fellowship. We have SO many zoom meetings and are so very grateful for ZOOM bcs it means we can meet and connect (a lot of us are house-bound) with others all over the world. However this new animated emogie default setting is disturbing to some members with head injuries or other specific illnesses. It is a nice feature but could you restore the default setting for the emogies to be not animated. But rather give people the option to change their setting to animated. In our groups we would just make a blanket request for people to not do the animated emogies. Zoom is a life line for our groups. alternatively: Is there a way for a specific member who is disturbed or made ill by the animated emogies, to turn off the feature so that she does not have to see other people's animated emogies. (I see that there is a place to turn the animated emogies off so that I don't create any but wonder about one person just blocking them altogether for their own health issues. Thank you

YaBoiB

Community Champion | Employee

Hello @Jadedetrey,

If you check the reply that I sent to TT8 there is a way to change this in the account settings. Let me know if this is going to work for your group and thank you so much for not only using Zoom, but for letting us know of your situation. We truly appreciate the feedback.

Regards,

Brandon