How to use plain text smileys (disable automatic emoji substitution) in Messages.app?

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Question

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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Solution

Go to the Edit menu, submenu Substitutions, then uncheck Emoji.

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OTHER TIPS

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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