watchOS Messages app -- where did animated emojis go?

In betas including beta 4, I've lost the ability to send the fancy animated emojis (the ones that move around, etc.).


What I see:

1- a smiley face emoji icon as one of the reply choices

2- when I touch that, I get a list of frequently used normal emojis, as well as a series of categories such as Smileys & People, Animals & Nature, etc. But these are all normal non-animated emojis.

3- the very last category is Stickers, and here I do see some animated emojis: but just four "RECENT" ones, with no option to select additional ones. I think the recent ones are what I've used on my iPhone ...


Anyone else seeing this?


UPDATE: Same state on beta 4, is everyone / anyone seeing the same?


Bugreport #42345868

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Bug report closed: feature removed!


I'm surprised, I sent animated emojis from Watch pretty regularly ...

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Bug report closed: feature removed!


I'm surprised, I sent animated emojis from Watch pretty regularly ...

I've been wondering about those as well! shame they're gone!

Yeah, I used them by default for quick message responses versus static emojis. Surprising they'd remove them ... but no sign of any replacement / atlernative so far, at least through beta 5 ...