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An emoji status is a small symbol beside your name, set in two taps and visible to everybody who sees you. It is the lightest thing you can change about your profile and the only one that can be made to expire by itself.
Used as a convention inside a team it carries real information. Used decoratively it carries none, and both look identical from outside.
What you will be able to do
- check_circle Set a status and give it an expiry.
- check_circle Agree a small set of meanings with a group.
- check_circle Know who can see it and where it appears.
- check_circle Recognise when it is not doing any work.
Choosing one takes two taps, and holding offers a duration after which it clears itself.
person A signal only if somebody agreed what it means
The symbol has no inherent meaning. A palm tree beside your name says holiday only if the people reading it have decided that is what it says, which in practice means a team that agreed on three or four and uses them consistently.
Where that agreement exists it is genuinely efficient: a glance at the member list tells you who is around, who is heads-down and who is away, without anybody writing a message about it. Where it does not, it is jewellery.
The expiry is what keeps it honest. A status saying you are away, still there three weeks later, is worse than no status at all — it teaches people to stop looking.
When it carries information, and when it is decoration
Both columns are legitimate. The mistake is expecting the right-hand one to behave like the left.
work It carries information when
emoji_emotions It is decoration when
A status works when a small group agreed what it means and it expires by itself. Otherwise it is decoration.
settings Setting one
- Tap the space beside your name in your profile The status picker opens.
- Choose a symbol From the standard set or a custom pack.
- Hold it to set a duration An hour, a day, a week.
- Agree the meanings with your team And pin them in the group.
- Clear it when the situation ends If you did not set an expiry.
- Write a message for anything important A status is a hint.
This page is a status you choose. The curriculum step is the presence you do not: online indicators, last seen, typing, and the settings that decide how much of your availability other people can observe.
At a glance
- 1Emoji status
Set a status emoji and give it an expiry time.
- 2Agree meanings
In a team, decide what each status means.
- 3Everyone sees it
It shows next to your name everywhere.
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