Are you also annoyed by the “smart” emoji suggestions when opening the emoji picker in MacOS Sonoma? Here’s how to fix that.
Say you’re writing a text or a text message and you open the MacOS emoji picker by pressing CTRL + CMD + Space to add an emoji. If the last word you wrote before opening the picker was something like “sleep”, “peach” or “penis” “eggplant”, chances are that instead of showing the emoji picker, MacOS shows you emoji suggestions first. As if it wanted to nudge you to write Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Since the suggestions aren’t really clever or helpful, you want to deactivate these suggestions. To do so, you need to open the Terminal app and copy 🍝 the following:
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/FeatureFlags/Domain/UIKit.plist emoji_enhancements -dict-add Enabled -bool NO
After that, just reboot, and the suggestions are gone for good.
(I found this solution after endless googling on Reddit, so you don’t have to)
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