Emoji support in game app [September 2025]

What's New? Zwift Game
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This week, we’ve released limited emoji support within the main Zwift app starting in game version 1.98. If you’re not seeing your favorite emoji, this thread may explain why.

The Zwift game app uses the Google emoji library, while Zwift Companion uses the emojis built into iOS or Android. If your favorite emoji doesn’t display correctly in the game chat or Riders Nearby - it may be because that character does not exist in the Google library.

If your missing emoji does exist in the Google library and still does not render correctly in the game app, please let us know by dropping the emoji character in this thread. Thanks!

A correction was made on September 26: An earlier version of this post misstated Openmoji as the character library.

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So I’m assuming all emojis are fair game for use and none are banned from use?

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Might depend on context :rofl:

All letters are fair game but if you put them in certain orders you might find yourself in zwift jail

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Let me guess … no off option … I really dont need to see that someone is riding their :woman_biking:t2: while their :eggplant: looks like a :banana:

Nor do I want or need to see who supports what country in numerous conficts around the world.

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while i agree more off buttons would be nice i’m not aware of other online platform that has a off button to emojis. :thinking:

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An option to turn the nearby riderslist off would be a good start.

we can turn off the elevation display, pain effect can be turned off, rider highlighting can be turned off, we can now lose the leaderboard somebit, I can filter the language so why not emoticons … ?

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Turn off chat, that will go a long way to not seeing emoji.
But, the rider list would still show.

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Does that also turn off the ride leader messages that are shown in the middle of the screen ?

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yes context is needed but if the emojis are available you know people will use them, cant wait for someone to get a shadow ban for using the middle finger emoji

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Skull and Crossbones :skull_and_crossbones: and the tick :check_mark: don’t appear on the pause screen, it seems, unless that’s by design. Normally the full first name is shown:

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But mine currently looks like this:

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Companion and the Zwift website show them all as expected.

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As far as I can see they are both in OpenMoji:

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leaving the event will :wink:

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I believe it does, or at least it did the last time I did it, which I haven’t done recently.

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I don’t think so.
For years I have had chat off, but joining a group ride showed the leader messages.

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Just wait for woman to go complain to Zwift for the ‘we can all forsee what emoticons’ they will receive from random riders and Zwift has to put in the manpower to warn/ban all those people.

This might just give them a lot of extra work.

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You want me to leave the Rhino events when not everyone can behave themselves ???

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If its the rider leader not behaving feel free to let me know but hopefully we don’t have any like that

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I am guessing you are right. Ride leaders will hopefully have some brains. I just dont see the point in emoticons.

I have no need to see them, nor do I want/need to see someones indentity, fav fruit, land they support in world conflicts, political flags/symbols, identity flags etc etc …

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I think you are making a mountain out of a mole hill here…

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I doubt it. My guess is we will see lots of flags in names whom the riders support. Ukraine and Palestine, Rainbow flag to name three.

I hope I am wrong and you’re right. But history have proven way to often people cant handle things like this and will ‘abuse’ it. What is wrong with just you first and last name ?

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