How to create your own emojis by combining them on Gboard, the Google keyboard

Today we are going to show you how you can create your own emojis by merging the ones you already have available on your keyboard. For this tutorial it will be necessary that you have installed Gboard, the Google keyboard, since this is an exclusive function of said keyboard. Check if you don’t have it already installed, since it usually comes by default in a good number of Android phones.

Thanks to Gboard we can combine different icons , a function that arrived last year and that has been use on all Android phones. Let’s see how it is done, since it is quite simple.

How to create your own icons in Gboard combining others

The first thing we have to do is open any messaging app , such as Telegram or WhatsApp. It also works in note apps like Keep, but it is a function specially designed for messaging apps, so use the one of your preference to ensure compatibility.

The second thing you are going to do is click on the option to show emojis , shown as a smiling face right next to the space bar. If your version of Gboard is recent and the face does not appear, but a face and a comma, just press and hold that key and the emoji selector will appear.

Once inside the emoji selector, you just have to select two emojis . Not all of them can be merged, but the vast majority of them can. The easiest thing is to use a basic emoji, such as an alien, ghost, cake, robot, etc., and combine it with a mood emoji: joy, happiness, cry, etc.

Once you have clicked on the two emojis, your combined emoji will be created, which you can now send to your contacts. Without a doubt, a quite original way to send content through messaging apps, giving the conversation a touch of its own.