- Windows 10’s July update broke part of the Emoji picker
- This is a panel that allows you to select from a huge Emoji library
- The search function is broken, which makes navigation which extends more difficult
The latest update of Windows 10 (for July) broke part of the Emoji panel in the operating system, confirmed Microsoft.
If you are not familiar with the Emoji selector, it is invoked by pressing the Windows key with the complete key (period), and it consists of a compact panel full of emojis that you can select. These can then be directly inserted into your active application (like Word, for example, if you want to add emojis to a document on which you work).
The bug does not prevent the selector from appearing – the problem is that the search function no longer works. After the last update of Windows 10, whatever the emoji you are looking for will not obtain any results – the operating system will send a message “We could not find it” (or a similar error).
This means that there is no shortcuts to find the emoji you want – you just have to hunt the (considerably heavy) content of the panel.
Windows noticed that Microsoft confirmed the Health Release Windows dashboard bug, declaring that: “Following the installation of the Windows security update in July (KB5062554), the Emoji Windows panel search function finds no results in Windows 10, version 22:2.”
The company says that it is working on a corrective that will be deployed in a future Windows 10 update. Be careful, there are not many people before the updates stop (except for those who opt for the extension program, which has recently been improved by Microsoft thanks to the addition of an unpaid option).
The end of life of Windows 10 will take place in October 2025, in case you have missed this.
Analysis: Rolling eyes face
A surprising number of people complain about this broken functionality. I say surprising because it is not a feature that I have ever used, but clearly, there are a lot of Windows 10 users who always count on the Emoji selector, and losing research capacity is a big downer, I can see it.
Those who broadcast their frustrations about the Bogue on Reddit previously confirmed that the abolition of the July update had healed the problem, and now, of course, Microsoft has admitted the problem itself.
What perplexes me here is that, as shown, Windows 10 has only a few months of shelf life. And so, at this stage of the game, with the retirement of the operating system, why does Microsoft draw threads of the system which could ensure that something is happening in this way? I do not know, and yes, I do not develop an operating system; It is an extremely complex company full of headaches, and I should probably be silent, because there are probably reasons.
However, it seems rather strange, isn’t it? Windows 10 is finished, no feature is added, and yet, in a way, the bugs still slip into the work lately – and strange problems too (which would suddenly make Emoji research in flames, I cannot start imagining).
Without a doubt, we have time for a last Hourra in a future update to attract another bug (or perhaps a couple, even, you never know your luck).
If you listen to the theorists of the conspiracy of the operating system (yes, they exist), it is Microsoft which engages in an intelligent conspiracy to get bored to finally go to Windows 11. Although if it was the plan developed, the software giant would perhaps sabothed a more important facet of the Windows 10 interface (like the starting menu, AHEM).
