{"id":205796,"date":"2022-10-26T11:42:51","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T09:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=205796"},"modified":"2025-07-01T20:22:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T03:22:21","slug":"google-chat-custom-emojis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/google-chat-custom-emojis\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Chat is getting custom emojis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google Chat is the search giant\u2019s messaging app for its Google Workspace productivity suite. It is kind of like Google\u2019s version of Slack, which helps facilitate communication between coworkers and colleagues while also allowing users to send personal messages too. In this regard, we can today bring you the news that will lean more toward those more personal messages, but that may end up creeping into work messages too, even if they are not appropriate. <strong>Google Chat is getting custom emojis<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"sc-card-program\">\r\n  <div class=\"sc-card-program__body\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row clearfix\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-logo\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__img\" alt=\"Google Chat\" src=\"https:\/\/images.sftcdn.net\/images\/t_app-logo-xl,f_auto\/p\/62a4a386-6336-49b3-a247-023d5ec4ba66\/25484848\/hangouts-chat-logo\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\">\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-title\">\r\n        <span class=\"sc-card-program__title\">Google Chat<\/span>\r\n        <a class=\"sc-card-program__button sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/hangouts-chat.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download Now<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-rating\">\r\n        <svg class=\"rating-score__content\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.1\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\" viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 50 50\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><path class=\"rating-score__background rating-score--good\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><path class=\"rating-score__value rating-score__value--0\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-dashoffset=\"0\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><text class=\"rating-score__number\" content=\"\" text-anchor=\"middle\" transform=\"matrix(1 0 0 1 25 31.0837)\" data-auto=\"app-user-score\"><\/text><\/svg>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <span class=\"sc-card-program__description\"><\/span>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__bigpic\" src=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\">\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <a class=\"sc-card-program__link track-link sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/hangouts-chat.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google is giving Chat users the ability to <strong>create and send their own customized emojis<\/strong>. Users will be able to send these to both personal and professional colleagues, although we would advise restraint before you go sending anything too outlandish to your coworkers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the Google Workspace <a href=\"https:\/\/workspaceupdates.googleblog.com\/2022\/10\/custom-emojis-google-chat.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blog post<\/a> announcing the move, the Google Chat team announced that it is launching this new feature, which was announced at Google Cloud Next \u201922 because:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cEmojis are a great way for people to express themselves in Google Chat.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Adding that they are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cExcited to announce that we&#8217;re making emojis even more expressive and personalized by allowing people to create custom emojis.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new custom emoji feature will <strong>be available to all users <\/strong>in organizations that are using Google Chat, although admins will be able to set <strong>organizational guidelines<\/strong> and even set special <strong>\u201cemoji managers\u201d<\/strong> who can moderate all custom emojis and even delete those that do not adhere to the organization\u2019s guidelines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google Chat\u2019s custom emojis will start rolling out on October 24 and will see availability being staggered up until November 30. It will become available for Google Workspace customers as well as legacy G Suite Basic and Business customers. It will not be launching for personal Google Accounts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In other <a href=\"https:\/\/hangouts-chat.en.softonic.com\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Google Chat news<\/a>, the search giant is taking extra care <a href=\"https:\/\/hangouts-chat.en.softonic.com\/articles\/google-chat-anti-phishing-security\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">to protect Chat users from phishing attacks<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Chat is the search giant\u2019s messaging app for its Google Workspace productivity suite. It is kind of like Google\u2019s version of Slack, which helps facilitate communication between coworkers and colleagues while also allowing users to send personal messages too. 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