Desperate to remove emoticons

[Android Central Question]

Android is full of horrible horrible features of which the worst is emoticons. I would very much like to type or do speech-to-text zero options for emoticons ever. Preferably eliminate the entire file of emoticons but I'll be happy with simply never seeing them again. This is a work machine and they cause huge delays and accomplishing work. It's a Galaxy 6 using message+

I had them all removed and shut off until 3 updates ago and I have not been able to remove them the same way I did before.

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! See if this helps: https://forums.androidcentral.com/m...on-message-stop-emojis-suggestions-texts.html

Emoticons aren't unique to Android, so I wouldn't blame Google or Android for that.