diff --git a/apps/client/src/components/ui/emoji-picker.tsx b/apps/client/src/components/ui/emoji-picker.tsx
index 804d1b0f4..8f87735d6 100644
--- a/apps/client/src/components/ui/emoji-picker.tsx
+++ b/apps/client/src/components/ui/emoji-picker.tsx
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import React, { ReactNode, useState } from "react";
+import React, { ReactNode, useEffect, useState } from "react";
 import {
   ActionIcon,
   Popover,
@@ -7,9 +7,24 @@ import {
 } from "@mantine/core";
 import { useClickOutside, useDisclosure, useWindowEvent } from "@mantine/hooks";
 import { Suspense } from "react";
-const Picker = React.lazy(() => import("@emoji-mart/react"));
 import { useTranslation } from "react-i18next";
 
+// Load the picker module AND the emoji data in parallel inside the lazy
+// resolution, then bind the data into the component. React.lazy only finishes
+// suspending once both are in memory, so the Suspense boundary hides the
+// Remove button until the Picker can render with real content.
+const Picker = React.lazy(async () => {
+  const [pickerModule, dataModule] = await Promise.all([
+    import("@slidoapp/emoji-mart-react"),
+    import("@slidoapp/emoji-mart-data"),
+  ]);
+  const PickerComp = pickerModule.default;
+  const data = dataModule.default;
+  return {
+    default: (props: any) => <PickerComp {...props} data={data} />,
+  };
+});
+
 export interface EmojiPickerInterface {
   onEmojiSelect: (emoji: any) => void;
   icon: ReactNode;
@@ -50,6 +65,38 @@ function EmojiPicker({
     }
   });
 
+  // emoji-mart's built-in autoFocus calls .focus() without preventScroll, which
+  // makes the browser scroll every scrollable ancestor of the search input to
+  // bring it on screen — including the page editor's scroll container, so the
+  // page jumps to the top whenever the picker is opened from a scrolled-down
+  // position. The search input lives inside the <em-emoji-picker> custom
+  // element's shadow root, so we poll for it after the dropdown mounts and
+  // focus it ourselves with preventScroll.
+  useEffect(() => {
+    if (!opened || !dropdown) return;
+    let cancelled = false;
+    let rafId = 0;
+    const tryFocus = (attempts: number) => {
+      if (cancelled) return;
+      const pickerEl = dropdown.querySelector("em-emoji-picker");
+      const input = pickerEl?.shadowRoot?.querySelector<HTMLInputElement>(
+        'input[type="search"]',
+      );
+      if (input) {
+        input.focus({ preventScroll: true });
+        return;
+      }
+      if (attempts < 60) {
+        rafId = requestAnimationFrame(() => tryFocus(attempts + 1));
+      }
+    };
+    rafId = requestAnimationFrame(() => tryFocus(0));
+    return () => {
+      cancelled = true;
+      cancelAnimationFrame(rafId);
+    };
+  }, [opened, dropdown]);
+
   const handleEmojiSelect = (emoji) => {
     onEmojiSelect(emoji);
     handlers.close();
@@ -85,7 +132,6 @@ function EmojiPicker({
       <Suspense fallback={null}>
         <Popover.Dropdown bg="000" style={{ border: "none" }} ref={setDropdown}>
           <Picker
-            data={async () => (await import("@emoji-mart/data")).default}
             onEmojiSelect={handleEmojiSelect}
             perLine={8}
             skinTonePosition="search"