General Open Emoji Panel in Windows 11

Raiden · Mar 2, 2023

I can't use the shortcut.
Right click (context menu) has no "emoji" option.
And there is no emoji panel (button) on my touch (on screen) keyboard.

Please help

kelper · Mar 2, 2023

Hold the WIN key down and tap the full stop / period key. Then release the WIN key.

Raiden · Mar 2, 2023

^ I've tried that a million times. It doesn't work.

None of the 3 options opens up that square emoji pop up. What I have is some sort of crap truncated thing only available via on-screen keyboard. A limited number of emojis consisting of two "pages" that I can only browse with a forward and back button. Can't search emojis at all. There is no emoji search bar that I can type words/characters into and find an emoji.

Something is definitely missing in my Windows 11. Or perhaps some conflict or malfunction is blocking it if it is there.

Brink · Mar 2, 2023

Hello @Raiden,

Just to confirm, do you have the latest Build 22621.1344 installed?

KB5022913 Cumulative Update Preview for Windows 11 Build 22621.1344 (22H2)

UPDATE 3/14: https://www.elevenforum.com/t/kb5023706-cumulative-update-for-windows-11-build-22621-1413-22h2.13395/ Microsoft Support: February 28, 2023 - KB5022913 (OS Build 22621.1344) Preview For information about Windows update terminology, see the article about the types of Windows updates...

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Raiden · Mar 3, 2023

Brink said:
Hello @Raiden,

Just to confirm, do you have the latest Build 22621.1344 installed?

KB5022913 Cumulative Update Preview for Windows 11 Build 22621.1344 (22H2)

UPDATE 3/14: https://www.elevenforum.com/t/kb5023706-cumulative-update-for-windows-11-build-22621-1413-22h2.13395/ Microsoft Support: February 28, 2023 - KB5022913 (OS Build 22621.1344) Preview For information about Windows update terminology, see the article about the types of Windows updates...

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Yes it is 22621.1344.

But Win key + period ( . ) or semicolon ( ; ) still doesn't work. Nothing in the right-click / context menu either.

Something is definitely screwed up.

The Windowns 10 + 11 emoji panel appears to simply not exist on my machine.... which was bought with Windows 10 pre-loaded but I soon enough turned to 11. Something I have only regretted since and might undo — I'm thinking of ~~downgrading~~ upgrading to 10 and then skipping over to Windows 12 when that is released. Then I'll get my emoji panel too.

Isn't there a file to download, or a registry edit to (re)activate or some other similar type solution?

Why is this tiny insignificant app so special that it can't be fixed one of those ways? With NORMAL windows tweaks or troubleshooting?

Brink · Mar 4, 2023

Raiden said:
Yes it is 22621.1344.

But Win key + period ( . ) or semicolon ( ; ) still doesn't work. Nothing in the right-click / context menu either.

Something is definitely screwed up.

The Windowns 10 + 11 emoji panel appears to simply not exist on my machine.... which was bought with Windows 10 pre-loaded but I soon enough turned to 11. Something I have only regretted since and might undo — I'm thinking of ~~downgrading~~ upgrading to 10 and then skipping over to Windows 12 when that is released. Then I'll get my emoji panel too.

Isn't there a file to download, or a registry edit to (re)activate or some other similar type solution?

Why is this tiny insignificant app so special that it can't be fixed one of those ways? With NORMAL windows tweaks or troubleshooting?

Just to confirm, what do you have set as your region and display language? The Emoji Panel doesn't support all languages yet. You could test using "United States" if not already.

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ThrashZone · Mar 4, 2023

Hi,
The irony of windows 11
So much focus on emoji's and yet explorer icons are just blah :eyeroll:

Raiden · Mar 5, 2023

Brink said:
Just to confirm, what do you have set as your region and display language? The Emoji Panel doesn't support all languages yet. You could test using "United States" if not already.

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Yes I went out of my way and set it up so it's United States in EVERYTHING* — to no avail.

* = Display language, Input language, day, time and currency Format and Location, including regional settings. I somewhat suspect this is not the problem, cuz I have another laptop I got from work and its Windows OS (10) is completely non-US local in language and display (naturally, as it's a company machine and I can't even change that) yet this one does have the emoji panel and the shortcut. And everything works exactly as described on this tutorial. The emoji panel is no longer US only. It works in some other, at least European language displays and keyboards.... in theory. So using other devices I have somewhat eliminated that possibility from being the cause of my issue........ unless y'all are telling me that the emoji panel is different (read: inferior) on Windows 11 and that here it is less capable of working in different display environments. If so then that's another pretty damning and deplorable situation and status of Win 11 vis-à-vis 10.

Edwin · Mar 5, 2023

What about Win+V, you can access the emoji panel from there.

Raiden · Mar 5, 2023

Edwin said:
What about Win+V, you can access the emoji panel from there.

I checked, nothing.

johnny · Mar 5, 2023

Edwin said:
What about Win+V, you can access the emoji panel from there.

Just tried that suggestion and, it works fine

thank you

Brink · Mar 5, 2023

@Raiden,

I must admit that I'm not sure why the Emoji Panel is not working for you. If you like, you could try doing a repair install of Windows 11 like below without losing anything to see it may fix it.

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Raiden · Mar 5, 2023

Just speculating I feel like this may be a permissions issue. There might be system files whose permissioons are blocking me or else themselves are blocked/denied from performing. I says this cuz I notice a lot of my powershell commands are rejected on "unauthorized" basis (denied cuz I don't have permissions. I can't for example re-register all my apps via the command: Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation) AppXManifest.xml"}

Brink · Mar 5, 2023

Raiden said:
Just speculating I feel like this may be a permissions issue. There might be system files whose permissioons are blocking me or else themselves are blocked/denied from performing. I says this cuz I notice a lot of my powershell commands are rejected on "unauthorized" basis (denied cuz I don't have permissions. I can't for example re-register all my apps via the command: Get-AppXPackage -AllUsers | Foreach {Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation) AppXManifest.xml"}

This could happen if not using an elevated (aka: "Run as administrator") PowerShell, or if an issue with a specific app not able to re-register.

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