How to resize the emoji keyboard on iOS 18.1?

SAME it literally makes me wanna not use emojis anymore it’s so annoying

We need apple to hear our voices! It is infuriating and here I am thinking that apple is focusing on the user experience. So annoying and it makes me want to stop using emojis if I can help it. I rather just write the smiles like we used to before :(

I couldn’t agree more. If this is what Apple perceives as system update - than thanks, I’m out! Why do you force changes on users which they did not request and which they do not like and have no option to change?

Not mentioning the fact that I have not understood until now why not simply give the users option to reorder emojis by themselves and to their liking. There is a crazy algorithm instead which puts first even those emojis I use just one time, occasionally…

Omg seriously. Please change it back, Apple, or give us an option to revert back. It’s terrible.

I wish i never updated to 18.1 🤦🏻‍♀️ too annoying

adding my 2 cents- why on god's green earth make a larger iphone........ make the fact that it is the "biggest iphone yet" a focal point of the marketing for it.......... but i'm forced to use an emoji keyboard with 4 rows? no option to change it, seriously? does this really make sense to people working at apple? i don't want soulless AI stickers mixed in with my emoji. i don't want a keyboard for 110 year olds. i wish i could be a fly on the wall to see the tech bros who've been suggesting these horrible "features".

this is the first time in over 11 years of owning iphones that i've genuinely been angry with poor quality of the operating system and updates being rolled out honestly

I totally agree, you wrote all my feelings. I hope they give us back what we want

don't forget to report it here:

Product Feedback - Apple

Hate the bigger keyboard. The UI is not consistent at all. The keyboard bobs up and down all the time while switching between the keyboard and emojis because of how much bigger the emojis now are. So annoying. Fwiw, the text size I use is the smallest text size on my iPhone 15 pro.

Same literally the worst update to date. I deleted the emoji keyboard completely from my keyboard list until they fix it and downloaded a free emoji app in the meantime with normal sized emojis. Only solution I've found so far is just delete it completely for now. Very frustrating. They at the very least need an emoji keyboard size setting like the rest of the font size settings. I never come on here to write but this was definitely needed, glad I am not the only one who hates it, looks like it's a majority of users.

I want my old emojis back! If the rows are kept this big I will probably not even use them - it’s too time-consuming and annoying to find the right one now that they’re massive.

Yes, I just sent feedback, this is seriously annoying! Yes, we can reduce font size, but then everything else is too small! 😩

I also sent feedback asking for us to have a bigger Recently Used emoji section up front, and the ability to shrink all the other emojis so we don’t have to scroll for years trying to find the ones we want!

I really hope that this will change somehow down the line…

this is way too big!

There are enough accessibility features to enlarge text and keyboards. There is no need to enlarge it for everyone and don’t even give them the option to customise it or even just revert the change.

i filled a customer support form

Product Feedback - Apple - just to make sure i did all that I could to make this go away.

I completely agree, I’d rather have a choice if it’s large or not! Sure it’s easier to see but it’s annoying!

Apple can give us the option of choosing the size of the emojis at least. Bc forcing everyone to update for these huge emojis is terrible !!!

omg I’m glad I’m not the only one!! These emojis are now way too big! Someone also mentioned the option of hiding the emojis we never use, and I totally agree with that.