Emoji Keyboard size is large after updating to iOS 18.1

omg apple! please bring back the smaller emoji keyboard, or add a setting to switch it back, this is awful.

Same issue here. I was searching for the settings or some tips on web but it seems user can’t change the emoji keyboard size unless you download some 3rd party keyboard. I hope Apple will switch it back or allow users to choose size.

yoo apple! Shrink the size of the emojis!! Its tooo bigggg!!

i hate the new emoji size in the 18.0.1 update!!

i need smaller emoji keyboard size

This has to change back to normal ASAP. I can’t use emojis anymore. Why are they so big????

the new emoji keyboard is WAY too big! Please bring back the original size this is ridiculous. Maybe have an option to make it bigger for people with impaired vision, but for others allow us to go back to the original emoji keyboard size.

Similarly here I’ve been wondering on ways to do that. Unfortunately, I think there isn’t a way to edit or customize the emoji keyboard. Maybe it will be fixed or settled in the next update.

I’m old and my near vision gets worse all the time, but even I can’t stand the Costco size emojis

Same for me. I find it so much harder to find emojis, especially since the ones I used a lot I knew exactly where they were on rows and in categories. Making them bigger changed that, and just feels so disorienting. Make their size an option, Apple!

Yes, it’s awful. Developers, please give people an option to choose the emoji keyboard size. The large one is SO bad.

😂 not the Costco sized

this is horrid. change it back Apple, what are you doing 🤦🏽‍♂️

Honestly it’s unacceptable, I don’t understand how they could have thought this was a good idea; and not even providing us with an option to change their size? Ridiculous.

Aside from the inexplicably gigantic size, the icon placements in the lower bar have changed as well, I’m having such a hard time switching between emoji pages, going through so much trouble to access any emoji I need, and stumbling upon stickers between my emojis… why on earth would I want to have stickers on the same page as emojis?!

I cannot see the point in any of these changes, nor can I get used to them, because they are horrible.

Please go back to the original size and interface, some things are just perfect the way they are, no need to keep meddling just for the sake of meddling.

in an update to this, I got a new phone yesterday (16) and the emoji keyboard is even more messed up. there's diagonal lines of missing/blank emojis in my recents, which makes it hellish to use. this is such a weird glitch??

I hate it immediately. It would be a great *option* but I want the old one back stat.

I cannot stand this new emoji display