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I’m generally an Apple guy, but even I can admit that Android’s blobs were superior emoji. They’re cute, they’re fun, they’re unique, and they were unfairly retired in 2017 in a move to create Android emoji look more to all others. It’s a damn shame, but no more shame to live with. If you have an Android phone, you can return it blob emoji right now

To get started, you will need Gboard installed on your phone. Of course, if you have a Pixel, you already have Gboard. Next, go to Gboard’s Settings, then Emojis, stickers and GIFs and enable Emoji stickers. Once set, there are several ways to revive the blobs.

The first one was brought to my attention by this r/Google Reddit postand use Gboard’s emoji combination tool to revive the icons we know and love. For the uninitiated, the emoji combiner is an automatic feature that combines two emojis together to create a new one that doesn’t normally exist. You can type a smiley face and a crying face together to create a new crying smiley face, or an angry face with the crazy face to create an angry and crazy face. Fun stuff!

But unbeknownst to you, if you combine an emoji with the star emoji (✨), Google won’t combine the two. Instead, it will default you to the blob version of the emoji you just typed, along with more recommended blobs to choose from on the right. All you have to do is open the emoji keyboard, then type your emoji followed by stars. It won’t work with each emoji, but you should have many blobs to choose from.

Image for article titled You Can Bring the 'Blob' Emoji Back to Your Android Phone

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Blob emojis also exist as stickers

of The star method isn’t the only way to use blobs in your conversations. Android Authority showed this alternative method: Open the emoji keyboard, tap the stickers icon along the bottom, then tap (+) to request new sticker packs. Scroll down a bit and you should see “The Blobs Live On” and “Long Live the Blob”. Tap Add on both.

Now, anytime you want, you can tap on one of the sticker packs to choose from a bunch of animated dots. You can send a dramatic look, a mischievous devil, a festive turtle, whatever suits your current mood.

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