Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority
TL;DR
- Gboard’s emoji grid has quietly shifted from nine columns to eight, making the emojis look bigger.
- Users who spotted the change couldn’t figure out what exactly happened.
- It turns out that Google added a flag in October that allows it to adjust the emoji column counts in Gboard, and it’s now set to eight.
If your Gboard emojis have felt oddly large lately, you’re not alone. There’s a good reason why those emojis are suddenly looking bigger.