How to disable the Character Viewer in Big Sur?

Question

How should I change shortcut or disable emoji menu by ctrl+cmd+space. Is it possible?

Answer 1

How should I change shortcut or disable emoji menu by ctrl+cmd+space. Is it possible?

Yes, it's possible, and you can change the default keyboard shortcut to something else in: System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts

Click the [+] button and in the sheet that appears...

• Set Application: to: All Applications
• Set Menu Title: to: Emoji & Symbols
  • Use the actual menu title as it shows on the Edit menu on the menu bar, based on your Language & Region settings. In this example it's English.
• Set Keyboard Shortcut to e.g.: ⌃⇧⌘Space
  • After setting focus to it, press the keyboard shortcut you'd like to use. Once you've pressed the keys, click the Add button.

_{Note: Assigning global shortcuts can be problematic, and you'll need to use a keyboard shortcut that is not already assigned in whatever application has focus when pressing the new keyboard shortcut.}

Answer 2

This is Character Viewer.

This is very handy tool for entering special characters. In order to get rid of emojis one can change settings:

• click on on icon upper right.

This will open expanded view.

• click on down arrow icon left upper.

Dropdown menu will be displayed.

• click on 'Customize list'

'Select categories' window will open

• Select/Deselect needed categories and click 'Done'

• Switch back to compact view using icon on upper right corner

Character Viewer 'remembers' you choice and your sceenshot indicates that you have selected 'emoji' menu as default (have look at the footer on your screenshot). If you want display 'Frequently Used' and 'Favorites' by default (like on my screenshots) click on clock icon in footer (leftmost). Next time you invoke Character Viewer it opens there.

Answer 3

Following solution work on big sur.

System Preference > Keyboard > Keyboard

There must be a flag with this label "Press 🌐 to ". In the drop down next to this label, Just select Do Nothing