Gboard rolls the redesign of emoji and gif picker on Android

Last updated: June 10, 2025 01:57

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After the beta test begins last month, Gboard for Android is now rolling emoji, GIF, and sticker picker redesign to stable users.

The primary change is for navigation below. On the left, “ABC” is placed in a pill, while emoji, GIF, stickers and emoticons are placed in round rectangles. These containers are slightly wide, and most likely will not fit into the same screen. He said, you can still tap for the last time without scrolling.

Old vs new

Instead of a button for delete, now you get a fab (floating action button) that only appears when the text is recorded. It hides to some extent which is below.

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The content of each picker is mostly unchanged (emoji sections are no longer all upper-prisons), while the top row removes the header between the back and the search. For example, you get to see more expressive categories.

Finally, Google has removed the “All” page that recently connects emoji, emoji kitchen creation and GIF. This redesign is also reflected on Android Tablet.

We are looking at this emoji, GIF, and sticker picker redesign with server-wide updates for the latest Gboard stable release (Version 15.3,