Gboardthe default keyboard of smartphones Made by Google And of many other smartphones from the Android panorama, available and very appreciated also on iOS, it started receiving a New interface for the emoji selector.

Already available for some Pixel users who have installed the beta version of the keyboard, the new emoji selector removes the card Everyone And change the elements that characterize the interface, making them larger and more obvious. Let’s find out all the details.

Gboard: in Rollout a renewed emoji selector

As anticipated at the opening, Google began to distribute a Renewed Emoji selector For the Gboard keyboard of smartphones and tablets of the Pixel range.

The differences are quite evident: in the meantime, the “All” card disappeared showing the emojis used by recent, the emojis created with Emoji Kitchen and the gifs searched/sent recently.

Below, all the cards are enclosed in real buttons (wider than in the past), while on the far left the button remains ABCenclosed in a pill, which allows you to return to the keyboard. In this case we also have the first hints of Material 3 Expressive.

The upper part also changes, with the toolbar that loses the background dependent on the theme and the title of the displayed card, while maintaining the search bar and the horizontal scrolling carousel.

The following image compares the “previous” version of the Emoji selector, the one still available on the “stable” version of the keyboard, with the new version of the Emoji selector, available with the latest beta.

The Renewed Gboard emoji selector it is distributed, almost certainly the server side, for those who install the version 15.3.06.x beta of the keyboard on smartphones and tablets of the Pixel range but, in the future, it will also be distributed on the stable channel.

How to download or update the keyboard Made by Google

To download or update the Gboard On an Android smartphone, so as not to miss the latest news released by the development team, simply visit the app on the Google Play Store (reachable via the Badge below) and make a tap on “Install“(In the case of first installation) or on “Update” (in the event that an update was present).

Instead, in the event that you are eager to try the preview news that will arrive on the app in the future, you can contact the Beta App program (the page dedicated to the program can be reached via this link) and download Gboard (beta). In the event that the beta program is fully fully Apk mirror (whose dedicated page can be reached by clicking on this link).