The best custom Gboard emoji combos

If you’re that person in the WhatsApp groups with a sticker for every occasion, you’ll want to start playing with Gboard emoji combos. Emoji Kitchen lets you easily combine two standard emojis to create a sticker that’s a mix of the two or perhaps something even weirder. There are an extraordinary number of combinations to try — at least 100,000 and counting — so you can’t get bored of fusing the emojis for interesting results. We’ve been having a play around with it ourselves, so we’ll run you through how to use it and the best Gboard emoji combos we’ve found so far.

2. Next, you need to set Gboard as your default keyboard. On the Samsung Galaxy S24 Plus, the steps are Settings > General management > Keyboard list and default.

3. Toggle the slider next to Gboard to the on position, then ensure it is set as the default keyboard at the top of the menu.

4. Go back to the General management menu and hit Gboard settings > Emojis, stickers and GIFs.

5. Under the Suggestions while typing section, ensure that Emojis and Stickers are toggled on.

6. You’re ready to start mashing up emojis! Open an app that’s compatible with Emoji Kitchen, as outlined in the next section.

7. Go to the emoji list. It’s important that you use the emoji list from Gboard rather than the app’s emoji list. There are a couple of ways you can do this, but the easiest way is to long-press the emoji key on the keyboard, as shown in the first image below.

8. Type two emojis. Below the text field, you’ll see a list of the Emoji Kitchen stickers. The first will be the sticker that the two emojis you typed make, if there is one. The rest will be other suggestions related to the emojis that you typed.

While that still leaves more than 700 emojis to play with, another portion of them can only be paired with a limited number of other emojis. The volleyball emoji 🏐 is one example, and most of the emojis it can be paired with are those that can be paired with almost everything. This includes the heart-eyes emoji 😍, which has some effect on the vast majority of other emojis.

Many of the other emojis can’t universally be paired, but you still have a few hundred options for each. For instance, most animal emojis can’t be combined with many objects, but they can be paired with other animals and with the smilies for fun results.