This is NOT the correct answer for the latest version of Verizon Messenger.

Is there any resolutions for this?!?! In a previous version of Verizon Messenger, I was able to shut these off but when I upgraded to the Galaxy s10+, I couldn't get the Smart Emojis turned off and it's been frustrating me for MONTHS. I've already turned off the setting in Verizon Messenger and the "smart" emojis are still popping up. They make it difficult to edit messages and, in general, are just in the way and ridiculous. It is NOT the keyboard because it doesn't happen in any other application. There is a bug in Verizon Messager where the setting to shut off the smart emojis doesn't work.

Please fix this so we can turn them off! Otherwise, I'm moving to another application for messaging.