diff --git a/web/chat/message-tooltip.react.js b/web/chat/message-tooltip.react.js
index ba94a22bf..0ad173944 100644
--- a/web/chat/message-tooltip.react.js
+++ b/web/chat/message-tooltip.react.js
@@ -1,229 +1,234 @@
 // @flow
 
 import data from '@emoji-mart/data';
 import Picker from '@emoji-mart/react';
 import classNames from 'classnames';
 import * as React from 'react';
 
 import type { ChatMessageInfoItem } from 'lib/selectors/chat-selectors.js';
 import { localIDPrefix } from 'lib/shared/message-utils.js';
 import type { ThreadInfo } from 'lib/types/thread-types.js';
 
 import {
   tooltipButtonStyle,
   tooltipLabelStyle,
   tooltipStyle,
 } from './chat-constants.js';
 import css from './message-tooltip.css';
 import {
   useSendReaction,
   getEmojiKeyboardPosition,
 } from './reaction-message-utils.js';
 import { useTooltipContext } from './tooltip-provider.js';
 import { useSelector } from '../redux/redux-utils.js';
 import type {
   MessageTooltipAction,
   TooltipSize,
   TooltipPositionStyle,
 } from '../utils/tooltip-utils.js';
 
 type MessageTooltipProps = {
   +actions: $ReadOnlyArray<MessageTooltipAction>,
   +messageTimestamp: string,
   +tooltipPositionStyle: TooltipPositionStyle,
   +tooltipSize: TooltipSize,
   +item: ChatMessageInfoItem,
   +threadInfo: ThreadInfo,
 };
 function MessageTooltip(props: MessageTooltipProps): React.Node {
   const {
     actions,
     messageTimestamp,
     tooltipPositionStyle,
     tooltipSize,
     item,
     threadInfo,
   } = props;
   const { messageInfo, reactions } = item;
 
   const { alignment = 'left' } = tooltipPositionStyle;
 
   const [activeTooltipLabel, setActiveTooltipLabel] = React.useState<?string>();
 
   const { shouldRenderEmojiKeyboard } = useTooltipContext();
 
   // emoji-mart actually doesn't render its contents until a useEffect runs:
   // https://github.com/missive/emoji-mart/blob/d29728f7b4e295e46f9b64aa80335aa4a3c15b8e/packages/emoji-mart-react/react.tsx#L13-L19
   // We need to measure the width/height of the picker, but because of this we
   // need to do the measurement in our own useEffect, in order to guarantee it
   // runs after emoji-mart's useEffect. To do this, we have to define two pieces
   // of React state:
   // - emojiKeyboardNode, which will get set by the emoji keyboard's ref and
   //   will trigger our useEffect
   // - emojiKeyboardRenderedNode, which will get set in that useEffect and will
   //   trigger the rerendering of this component with the correct height/width
 
   const [emojiKeyboardNode, setEmojiKeyboardNode] = React.useState(null);
   const [emojiKeyboardRenderedNode, setEmojiKeyboardRenderedNode] =
     React.useState(null);
 
   React.useEffect(() => {
     if (emojiKeyboardNode) {
       // It would be more simple to just call getEmojiKeyboardPosition
       // immediately here, but some quirk of emoji-mart causes the width of the
       // node to be 0 here. If instead we wait until the next render of this
       // component to check the width, it ends up being set correctly.
       setEmojiKeyboardRenderedNode(emojiKeyboardNode);
     }
   }, [emojiKeyboardNode]);
 
   const messageActionButtonsContainerClassName = classNames(
     css.messageActionContainer,
     css.messageActionButtons,
   );
 
   const messageTooltipButtonStyle = React.useMemo(() => tooltipButtonStyle, []);
 
   const tooltipButtons = React.useMemo(() => {
     if (!actions || actions.length === 0) {
       return null;
     }
     const buttons = actions.map(({ label, onClick, actionButtonContent }) => {
       const onMouseEnter = () => {
         setActiveTooltipLabel(label);
       };
       const onMouseLeave = () =>
         setActiveTooltipLabel(oldLabel =>
           label === oldLabel ? null : oldLabel,
         );
 
       return (
         <div
           onMouseEnter={onMouseEnter}
           onMouseLeave={onMouseLeave}
           key={label}
           onClick={onClick}
           style={messageTooltipButtonStyle}
           className={css.messageTooltipButton}
         >
           {actionButtonContent}
         </div>
       );
     });
     return (
       <div className={messageActionButtonsContainerClassName}>{buttons}</div>
     );
   }, [
     actions,
     messageActionButtonsContainerClassName,
     messageTooltipButtonStyle,
   ]);
 
   const messageTooltipLabelStyle = React.useMemo(() => tooltipLabelStyle, []);
   const messageTooltipTopLabelStyle = React.useMemo(
     () => ({
       height: `${tooltipLabelStyle.height + 2 * tooltipLabelStyle.padding}px`,
     }),
     [],
   );
 
   const tooltipLabel = React.useMemo(() => {
     if (!activeTooltipLabel) {
       return null;
     }
     return (
       <div className={css.messageTooltipLabel} style={messageTooltipLabelStyle}>
         {activeTooltipLabel}
       </div>
     );
   }, [activeTooltipLabel, messageTooltipLabelStyle]);
 
   const tooltipTimestamp = React.useMemo(() => {
     if (!messageTimestamp) {
       return null;
     }
     return (
       <div className={css.messageTooltipLabel} style={messageTooltipLabelStyle}>
         {messageTimestamp}
       </div>
     );
   }, [messageTimestamp, messageTooltipLabelStyle]);
 
   const emojiKeyboardPosition = React.useMemo(
     () =>
       getEmojiKeyboardPosition(
         emojiKeyboardRenderedNode,
         tooltipPositionStyle,
         tooltipSize,
       ),
     [emojiKeyboardRenderedNode, tooltipPositionStyle, tooltipSize],
   );
 
   const emojiKeyboardPositionStyle = React.useMemo(() => {
     if (!emojiKeyboardPosition) {
       return null;
     }
 
     return {
       bottom: emojiKeyboardPosition.bottom,
       left: emojiKeyboardPosition.left,
     };
   }, [emojiKeyboardPosition]);
 
   const nextLocalID = useSelector(state => state.nextLocalID);
   const localID = `${localIDPrefix}${nextLocalID}`;
 
   const sendReaction = useSendReaction(messageInfo.id, localID, threadInfo.id);
 
   const onEmojiSelect = React.useCallback(
     emoji => {
       const reactionInput = emoji.native;
 
       const viewerReacted = reactions[reactionInput]
         ? reactions[reactionInput].viewerReacted
         : false;
       const action = viewerReacted ? 'remove_reaction' : 'add_reaction';
 
       sendReaction(reactionInput, action);
     },
     [sendReaction, reactions],
   );
 
   const emojiKeyboard = React.useMemo(() => {
     if (!shouldRenderEmojiKeyboard) {
       return null;
     }
 
     return (
       <div
         ref={setEmojiKeyboardNode}
         style={emojiKeyboardPositionStyle}
         className={css.emojiKeyboard}
       >
-        <Picker data={data} onEmojiSelect={onEmojiSelect} />
+        <Picker
+          data={data}
+          onEmojiSelect={onEmojiSelect}
+          theme="dark"
+          autoFocus={true}
+        />
       </div>
     );
   }, [emojiKeyboardPositionStyle, onEmojiSelect, shouldRenderEmojiKeyboard]);
 
   const messageTooltipContainerStyle = React.useMemo(() => tooltipStyle, []);
 
   const containerClassName = classNames({
     [css.messageTooltipContainer]: true,
     [css.leftTooltipAlign]: alignment === 'left',
     [css.centerTooltipAlign]: alignment === 'center',
     [css.rightTooltipAlign]: alignment === 'right',
   });
 
   return (
     <>
       {emojiKeyboard}
       <div className={containerClassName} style={messageTooltipContainerStyle}>
         <div style={messageTooltipTopLabelStyle}>{tooltipLabel}</div>
         {tooltipButtons}
         {tooltipTimestamp}
       </div>
     </>
   );
 }
 
 export default MessageTooltip;