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Google is making it easier to change the skin tone and gender of emoji in Gboard.

Instead of individually changing the skin tone and gender of each emoji on Gboard, you can now make these changes once, and they’ll automatically apply to every compatible emoji. The feature is rolling out today for Gboard on Android.

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