How to turn off or disable Emoticons in Skype on Windows PC

Skype has recently become an indispensable tool for any PC user. The service helps you save money on text messaging and international calls. It can be easily installed on any Windows computer or smartphone and offers users essential IM and calling features. Since we spend so much time chatting on Skype, it’s nice to know more about its possibilities, particularly its Emojis.

Emoticons are symbols that express the mood of a person in the course of conversation. These symbols enhance your communication and brighten up the discussion by making chatting more exciting with animations. Skype is one service that uses emoticons largely. It automatically keeps turning characters you type into little hearts, cups of coffee, and other forms that, though they appear as major attractions for readers, don’t appeal to everyone. You can turn off these effects on Skype directly if you do not like them.

The common Skype emoticons can be accessed by clicking on the smiley at the top of the compose message box, but there are tons more you can use. To generate them, you must type the corresponding word or symbol combination.

Most of us enjoy using emoticons, but some Windows users may not use them and want to disable them.

Disable Large Emoticons in Skype app

To disable Emojis or Large Emoticons in the Skype app on Windows 11/10, do the following:

1. Launch Skype app
2. Click open Skype Settings
3. Open the Messaging section
4. Turn the sith to Off against Large emoticons
5. Skype will not show large emoticons now.

TIP: You can use the Emoji Panel in Windows.

If you are using the classic Skype software, read on!

Disable Emoticons in Skype Desktop software

If you’re a Skype user and dislike emoticons, particularly in your IMs, you can disable them.

To do so, open your Skype account, navigate to ‘Tools’ and from the left section of the computer screen choose ‘IM Appearance’ option.

Then, shift to the right-pane and select ‘IM Appearance‘. Now, in the right pane uncheck Show emoticons option and click Save.

Instead of finding the actual emoticons, you’ll see the text associated with the each emoticon. The emoticon text can be just as annoying if you are in the course of a conversation about something important.

If the above method doesn’t work for you then go to –

C:\Users\<user name>\AppData\Roaming\

Now delete the folder SkypeEmoticons. In case you are not allowed to, open Task Manager and delete the task SE.exe and then delete the above-mentioned folder.

I hope this helps.