How do I disable the emojis in Jira cloud?

Question

Hi! We write all our issues in the English and French languages.

Both languages have colons...

But Jira keeps trying to turn every colon into an emoji, so it is virtually impossible to just type the issue content without getting extremely frustrated. (In French, there is always a space before a colon, so every single one turns into an emoji suggestion)

Is there a way to disable the auto-suggestion of emojis entirely?

Tanguy NODET · Answer

I currently don't have access to Confluence so I can't really test it, sorry. Did you try it on Confluence? It should be active on all Atlassian Cloud sub-domains (*.atlassian.net), which should include Confluence Cloud (*.atlassian.net/wiki/...).

There are some chances it works if JIRA and Confluence share the same editor.

If it doesn't, you could try adapting the script to find the relevant class names.

Antoine _Klee Group_ · Answer

Hi, hero ! Do you have the same thing for Confluence?

Tanguy NODET · Answer

Hello all,

I wrote a UserScript to work around this issue and effectively disable the emoji popup when typing a colon (`:`).

You can find it as a GitHub Gist here: https://gist.github.com/tnodet/0f4d85ed251b6b977ddd8197f64488d2

This works on Jira cloud, as of 2026/02/19.

To install the script:

1. Install the Tampermonkey browser extension (follow all installation instructions, especially the one to Enable developer settings / Authorize user scripts)

2. Open the raw Gist : https://gist.githubusercontent.com/tnodet/0f4d85ed251b6b977ddd8197f64488d2/raw/jira_hide_emoji_popup.user.js

3. This opens the Tampermonkey extension and asks for confirmation

4. Click on "Install"

The script should now be up and running. Check by navigating to your JIRA cloud instance: https://company.atlassian.net/jira. You should see a little red badge with a 1 on the Tampermonkey extension's icon.

Tampermonkey will automatically update the script (it will check for new updates daily by default). You can force an update check by clicking on the Tampermonkey extension's icon > Utilities > Check for userscript updates.

Enjoy!