Silencing macOS emoji suggestions

Apple OSX at some point got this idiotic suggested emojis feature which falls exactly into this category of UX labelled “meant to be helpful, doing the opposite”.

There is a way to make it stop. Run this in a terminal:

defaults write /Library/Preferences/FeatureFlags/Domain/UIKit.plist emoji_enhancements -dict-add Enabled -bool NO

A reboot later and the suggestions are gone.

Note that writing to /Library/Preferences requires sudo — if the command above fails with a permission error, prefix it with sudo.

Now, how to fix the other 347 issues that Tahoe has…