Emoji showing as blank

After an update to the Messenger app on my wife’s Moto G4 Android phone, the emoticons stopped showing up on texts to other people. The emoji was missing from the text but they still showed up on the SMS keyboard.  Basically the issue was the emoji showing as blank in an SMS text. See the image below.

emojiconsmissing

To fix this, do the following:

On your phone
Open Messenger
  Open Settings
    Select Advanced
      Use Simple Characters (Turn off)
         * – The issue happens if this setting is set to “Convert special characters in your SMS messages“. To fix it, just TURN OFF Use Simple Characters.

For the record, my wife’s phone was running Android version 6.0.1 (Marshmallow). 

Now try sending texts with emoticons or emjoies or whatever they’re called and it will work. Hope this helps someone out there! If so, don’t be shy, leave a comment!

George Almeida

Welcome to my little corner of the blogosphere. I'm an Information Technology Director. I specialize in Windows operating systems, applications, servers, storage, networks and also have a technical background on the IBM iSeries platform. My only purpose for this blog is the hope that it helps someone, someday, somewhere. Any meager proceeds derived from our sponsors will be donated to charity.

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Arianna Brown
Arianna Brown
6 years ago

Seems like it worked. Thanks!

PSLopez
PSLopez
6 years ago

It worked on my new Moto G4 plus. Thank you!

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