How to use plain text smileys (disable automatic emoji substitution) in Messages.app? In OS X 10.8 there was a setting for this in the app’s Preferences pane, but in OS X 10.9 that doesn’t seem to be the case anymore.
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In my opinion, it is not cool to ask and answer your own questions as a way of posting a tip that you have found, but maybe others disagree... – beroe Oct 23 '13 at 14:43
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3@beroe Well, Jeff Atwood disagrees with you. http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2011/07/its-ok-to-ask-and-answer-your-own-questions/ – Mathias Bynens Oct 23 '13 at 15:29
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1Interesting. I'll have to ponder that. Thanks for the link. – beroe Oct 23 '13 at 15:33
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2@beroe Also, http://apple.stackexchange.com/help/self-answer – Daniel Nov 07 '13 at 02:22
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2But someone else just might come up with an even better answer, as happened here. – Daniel Nov 07 '13 at 02:22
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@DanielLawson Depends on your definition of “better”, but yeah :) Love when this happens. – Mathias Bynens Nov 07 '13 at 10:52
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@MathiasBynens You're absolutely correct. – Daniel Nov 07 '13 at 12:51
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Go to the Edit menu, submenu Substitutions, then uncheck Emoji.
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This doesn't quite work anymore for Big Sur, but I think I got it to stop replacements by toggling each of the items./ (They were all already off, but setting them on/off seems to have disabled auto-emoticons, etc.) – Christopher Schultz Mar 12 '21 at 22:18
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Run the following command (source) in Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.messageshelper.MessageController SOInputLineSettings -dict-add "automaticEmojiSubstitutionEnablediMessage" -bool false
Then restart Messages.app.
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2Nice! I always prefer
dwritesbecause I keep a file of them that I use to setup a new system the way I like it, rather than checking 100 different menu items. Verified on 10.9. – TJ Luoma Nov 07 '13 at 10:06 -
Yeah, me too. But I guess most people prefer a UI for everything, so I ended up accepting the other answer ;) – Mathias Bynens Nov 07 '13 at 10:51