matrix-spec/content/client-server-api/modules/recent_emoji.md
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Spec for MSC4356: Recently used emoji (#2291)
Signed-off-by: Johannes Marbach <n0-0ne+github@mailbox.org>
Co-authored-by: Richard van der Hoff <1389908+richvdh@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-01-14 09:15:24 +00:00

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Recently used emoji

{{% added-in v="1.18" %}}

This module enables clients to track a user's cumulated emoji usage across different devices. The data is stored in the m.recent_emoji global account data and can, among other things, be used to generate recommendations in emoji pickers.

Events

{{% event event="m.recent_emoji" %}}

Client behaviour

What exactly constitutes trackable emoji usage is left as an implementation detail for clients. It is RECOMMENDED to include sending emoji in both messages and annotations.

When an emoji is used, the sending client moves (or adds) it to the beginning of the recent_emoji array and increments (or initializes) its counter. This keeps the array ordered by last usage time which facilitates evaluating the data. How exactly the client evaluates and uses the collected data is deliberately left unspecified.

To prevent excessive growth of the event as new emoji are being used, clients SHOULD limit the length of the recent_emoji array by dropping elements from its end. A RECOMMENDED maximum length is 100 emoji.

To enable future extension, clients MUST tolerate and preserve array elements within recent_emoji regardless of whether they understand or support the contained emoji value. This means ignoring entries with unrecognised values of emoji when deciding what to display to the user while retaining them when modifying the array (unless the modification is for truncation).

To prevent undefined behavior, clients SHOULD remove array elements that don't conform to the event schema such as elements with negative counters.