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New Emoji quick action on sticky note hover is distracting - any way to disable?

  • September 7, 2025
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StupidJan

Hi Forum, there is this new feature where you can add emojis to sticky notes in miro. Whenever you hover a sticky note there's a hover effect. It is massively distracting to me and makes it extremely hard to focus when you have a board full of notes. 


Is there any way to turn it off?

I want to give this also to the UX designers. Please don't!

Help is highly appreciated.

Best, J

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How can I disable this from appearing?

 


Robert Johnson
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  • September 8, 2025

@StupidJan I cannot find any way to disable this. I agree, this is distracting – not only to me as my cursor hovers over the sticky as I move around solo on a board, but even more so when I am sharing my screen and have my cursor over a sticky to highlight what is being discussed.

Sure, the more I zoom in the smaller the emoji action is in relation to the the sticky, but I shouldn’t have to alter my 7+-years long Miro behaviours. 

Perhaps a more useful feature is the option to pin any context menu action to become a quick action, so I could chose none or a more useful one for me, e.g., tags.

 


StupidJan
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  • September 8, 2025

Agree. I might switch back to shapes. Before sticky notes we used just squares with text in it. Back to the roots. 

Hope this feature gets voted back into the UX hell where it came from.  


Robert Johnson
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  • September 8, 2025

Additional feedback

I clicked on one of the emojis (please reduce your quantitative data by one ;) and noted that the number is right up against the border, which is unexpected:

 


StupidJan
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  • September 9, 2025

Seems to me like a well thought through feature 🥴👍


 


StupidJan
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  • September 10, 2025

aye


Robert Johnson
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  • September 10, 2025

Aye! 


Robert Johnson
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  • September 10, 2025

@Teacher Robert FYI, I merged your post with this one, so we can keep all feedback in one place, aye?


Robert Johnson
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  • September 12, 2025

I found another way in which the emoji quick action continues to be distracting — it even appears when hovering over a context menu that overlays a sticky note: