How to Use Emoji Reactions in Gmail
- Dec 18, 2025
- 1 min read
You can now send emoji reactions to emails in Gmail 🥳.
Sometimes an email doesn't need a full reply, and an emoji reaction will do the job of acknowledging the email. A busy headteacher friend of ours explained this to us when she moved from M365 to Google Workspace at her new school, and it makes sense; it is a timesaver.
Step 1 - To submit your own reaction to an email, simply open the email and click the 'Add reaction' button to the left of the reply button.
Step 2 - Select your emoji. You can use the search box to quickly search for one.
Step 3 - You will see your reaction alongside the email. If you are using conversation view in Gmail, then you will now see a 2 to show your reaction as a reply.
If someone sends an emoji reaction to your email, you will see it as shown below:
You will also see it against the email subject in your Inbox. Again, you can see the 2 in the conversation view.
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