[Greg Jordan]

When creating an SMS text message, I noticed that it puts certain words in a gray "bubble" ... seems to be entirely random as to which words get the bubble, and it's not documented in Help. Any idea what that is?

[jimcapraro]

Tap on the bubble and the word turns into a emoticon type picture representation of that word. It's not random, it only fires it for words that have pictures in its database.

[kmf1]

Are you both talking about the stock sms app? That's a cool feature.

[paulaweston]

Is there any way to disable this feature?

[tlacour]

Is there any way to disable this feature?

If you are seeing this in the messages+ app, it is a feature called "Smart Emoji". Go to settings and uncheck the box next to this feature.

Tony

[tlacour]

There is also something called "weblink preview" that does something similar to URLs. That is a check box in settings- advanced settings -

[travaz]

I love that feature.

[jentedvel]

Where within Settings can I find the "Smart Emoji?"

[tlacour]

Where within Settings can I find the "Smart Emoji?"

In the Message+ app, conversation list, slide from left side for settings, Advanced, Settings, about halfway down, smart emoji check box.

[jtyoderFW]

I have turned off Smart Emojis and I still get the gray bubbles. It's very frustrating! I hate those things! They are very inconvenient when I need to tap in the middle of a message to move my edit point and I hit a bubble instead.
What would cause them to still show up if I have them turned off?

[Davidoo]

I have the smart emojis turned off too and I still get the gray bubble sometimes. I can find no rhyme or reason for why it only comes up on some texts.

[Joe Shoults]

I would very much like to disable this text bubble feature. I do not like it at all, and it makes editing a message harder

[hannsoft]

I would very much like to disable this text bubble feature. I do not like it at all, and it makes editing a message harder

If your "Smart Emoji" setting is already off, click it once to check it "on", then again to turn it back off. Just worked here for me just now.

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[AndreyT]

The issue that you describe has nothing to do with SMS application itself or any of its settings. It has nothing to do with "Smart Emoji" or anything like that.

What you observe is an intermittent bug in Google Keyboard application. It might correspond to some "feature", but I have no idea what feature that would be. When this behavior begins to manifest itself, it appears in virtually all applications that use basic keyboard function. The same issue will manifest in Messenger, Hangouts, Skype, Viber and so on and so forth.

I just experienced this issue myself and submitted a description to Google Support forums here (productforums.google.com/forum/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer#!msg/nexus/71RCkVQd1rk/Dw8G0cUcBQAJ)

Note that the problem seems to clear after rebooting the phone. I don't know what factors activate it. So far I only experienced it once on Nexus 6. And I have not been able to reproduce it after reboot.

[Sydcomebak]

Having the same issue on a Droid Ultra. Glad I'm not the only one. I'll try to get a screenshot if it happens again.

[Tea9000]

AHHHH thank you so much, turning it on and then off again works. I've been hating this feature for the past year or however long it's been implemented.

[deBronkart]

> If your "Smart Emoji" setting is already off, click it once to check it "on", then again to turn it back off. Just worked here for me just now.

Same here - thank you, all!

Note: SOMETHING came in uninvited and turned that feature on - I sure didn't. And it was only in this one app, not a universal keyboard feature.

[Travis Rice2]

If your "Smart Emoji" setting is already off, click it once to check it "on", then again to turn it back off. Just worked here for me just now.

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That worked. The box was unchecked, but I kept getting those dumb boxes. I had to turn it on to turn it off. Good tip.

[wellssmith1954]

Thank you so MUCH! This was driving me freakin' bat**** crazy!!

[M Pez]

That's EXACTLY what I've been saying, verbatim, lolol!! Love your avatar btw! :-)

Me too!!!! Just found this forum, and soooo happy I don't have to want to throw my phone out the window every time I want to text someone, lol!

It does! I just found this forum, and FINALLY just learned how to turn that off, I didn't even know it is called Smart Emoji until now, lol.

Thanks for posting this on the forum, this feature has been driving me CRAZY for months since I bought my phone, and I can FINALLY not want to throw my phone out the window every time I type a message!!!

[JP5488]

Thank you! Like others, this annoying feature was driving me NUTS. Smart Emoji unchecked. Problem solved. Typing with ease again. Life is good.

[PixelFixer]

If your "Smart Emoji" setting is already off, click it once to check it "on", then again to turn it back off. Just worked here for me just now.

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What he said!
Worked for me too! Thanks!

[mwg5689]

Hey Everyone. new to the android family but this fix has nothing to do with the smart emoji. You need to go into settings, then "language and input" then "samsung keyboard" and turn off "predictive text".

[rdenzel]

What he said!
Worked for me too! Thanks!

It seems that every time the app gets automatically updated, this gets reset to the default. Despite what the toggle says, it is ON, and has to be toggled on and off again to make it stop.