React with emojis and GIFs#
Available on all plans
Cloud and self-hosted deployments
Emojis and GIFs are small, digital images, animated images, or icons you can use to communicate or express concepts such as emotions, humor, and physical gestures in your messages.
Quick emoji reactions#
Hover over a message to react quickly using your most recent emojis. You can react with up to 50 emojis per message.
Recently used emojis are sorted based on how often you’ve used them.
Tip
If you don’t see your most recently used emojis, enable quick reactions by selecting Settings > Display > Quick reactions on messages.
Include emojis and GIFs in messages#
Select the Smile icon 
inside the Mattermost message input box to open the emoji and GIF picker.
Select an emoji from the Emojis tab, or switch to the GIFs tab to search for a GIF.
You can also specify emojis based on their name. Type : followed by at least two characters of the word describing the emoji. This opens an emoji autocomplete. Descriptions include skin tone details for people-based emojis, where supported.
Tip
Can’t find the perfect emoji? You can upload your own custom emoji if your system admin has enabled you to do so.
Long press on a message, and then select a recently used emoji, or select the to add a different reaction. Mattermost accesses the emojis and GIFs available on your mobile device.
Manage emojis#
Using Mattermost in a web browser or the desktop app, you can select recently used emojis, select a default skin tone for people-based emojis, as well as manage custom emojis.
Select default skin tone#
Select the Skin tone icon in the top right corner of the emoji picker to specify the skin tone you prefer to use for people-based emojis by default. You can select an alternate skin tone at any time.
Upload custom emojis#
Using Mattermost in a web browser or the desktop app, you can upload new emojis that everyone in your Mattermost workspace can access to react to messages. From the emoji picker, select Custom Emoji. Small, square pictures work best when selecting an image to upload. The file can be any JPG, GIF, or PNG that’s up to 512 KiB in size.
Enter a name for your custom emoji. This is the name that shows up in the emoji autocomplete.
Choose Select, then select the image to use for the emoji.
Select Save. Once saved, your emoji is added to the list of custom emoji.
To use your custom emoji in a message, select it from the emoji picker, or type
:followed by your emoji name to bring it up in the emoji autocomplete.
Note
If you can’t see the Custom Emoji option, your Mattermost system admin may have restricted access to upload custom emoji. Contact your Mattermost system admin for assistance.
Remove custom emojis#
Using Mattermost in a web browser or the desktop app, you can remove custom emojis that you uploaded to Mattermost.
Open the emoji picker.
Select Custom Emoji.
If required, use the Search bar to find your custom emoji in the list.
Under Actions select Delete.
Choose Delete to confirm.
