Key Takeaways

  • Gboard’s Emoji Kitchen redesign adds a top-row suggestion bar for easy emoji combination results.
  • A new ‘browse’ screen displays all possible emoji combinations for simpler sticker creation.
  • The update includes a floating action button to show emoji combinations with a selected base emoji.



Everyone loves the Emoji Kitchen, where users can combine two emojis into one mashup sticker for chats. Now there’s an easier way to access those wacky emojis.

An array of emoji stickers made with Emoji Kitchen against a white background

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What is Emoji Kitchen?

Spice up your chats with funky emojis

Google is rolling out a redesign of Gboard’s Emoji Kitchen feature as part of the December 2024 Feature Drop (via 9to5Google). The redesign adds a top-row suggestion bar in the Emoji tab, which replaces the history of recent creations. Users can tap on a suggestion to see the results of combining two emojis together.


New features and browsing tools for Emoji Kitchen

Source: 9to5Google



Users will immediately spot the new ‘browse’ screen, which you can access by tapping the arrow icon on the left side of the suggestion bar in the Emoji Kitchen. This screen displays all possible emoji combinations, like a chicken and a wooden log melded together. This makes it a lot easier to create mashup stickers, instead of going through them one-by-one.

There’s also a new floating action button in the bottom-right corner. This brings up an emoji picker. Once you choose an emoji, you’ll see all the combinations that can be made with it as the base. This makes it infinitely easier to cook up new emoji combinations.

There is also a new history button in the top-right corner of the interface. You can revisit your favorite or recently created emoji mashups here. It also means you’ll no longer see your recently created emojis in the suggestion bar at the top of Gboard while you’re typing. That top row shows suggested emojis now.



Availability and what comes next

The Emoji Kitchen redesign is rolling out right now as a server-side update for anyone using Gboard beta version 14.8. It’s not yet on the stable channel but will most likely be available for all Android devices when it does launch, not just Pixel phones.

While the update is currently limited to Gboard beta, Google usually rolls out stable feature updates a few weeks after beta testing. This means every Android device with Gboard can expect to see it soon.