Express your feelings or acknowledge that you've seen what someone's written by adding reactions to your messages.  To add reactions, hover over a chat message and choose the reaction you'd like to use. You can quickly choose from up to five emoji or select More reactions to choose a different emoji. 

Select more reactions to add emoji to your default reactions.

Once you select the reaction, it'll show just below the message. 

Customize your quick reactions

You can choose up to five of your favorite emoji to use as quick reactions. 

  1. Hover over any chat message.

  2. Select More reactions , then select Customize default reactions Select customize default reactions to select your skin tone or choose default emoji..    

  3. Remove any of the current reactions by hovering over the emoji you want to replace, then select the X in the top right corner. Add any emoji from the gallery by clicking the plus sign.​​​​​​​

Add a skin tone to your reactions

  1. Hover over any chat message.

  2. Select More reactions , then select Customize default reactions Select customize default reactions to select your skin tone or choose default emoji.​​​​​​​.

  3. Choose the skin tone that you want to use, then select Save. 

Want to learn more? See First things to know about chats.

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