Iphone Emoji Kitchen
The mobile phone emoji had one of the slowest starts in Emoji Kitchen. It appeared on 3 February 2022 with seven pairings, sat nearly untouched for two years, then gained 137 in a single October 2024 release. It now has 557 of a possible 619. The shape of that history is unusual, and it tells you the phone was treated as an afterthought before someone decided otherwise.
Every Iphone mashup, and the day Google shipped it
Google added Iphone to Emoji Kitchen on 3 February 2022, starting with 7 combinations. It now mixes with 557 emojis, built up over 17 separate releases. The most recent, on 2 February 2026, added 9.
| Release | Combinations added | Share of total |
|---|---|---|
| 9 | 1.6% | |
| 4 | 0.7% | |
| 127 | 22.8% | |
| 6 | 1.1% | |
| 88 | 15.8% | |
| 80 | 14.4% | |
| 1 | 0.2% | |
| 137 | 24.6% | |
| 3 | 0.5% | |
| 40 | 7.2% | |
| 25 | 4.5% | |
| 16 | 2.9% | |
| 5 earlier drops | 21 | 3.8% |
Newest Iphone pairings
These partners arrived in the 2 February 2026 release, so they are the ones least likely to have been seen before.
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See every Emoji Kitchen release, with what each one added
Dates read from the Emoji Kitchen sticker assets Google serves through Gboard, which stamp each combination with the release that introduced it.
From seven combinations to 557
A debut of seven is close to nothing. For context, chicken launched with 182 and frog with 222. The phone spent its first two years as one of the thinnest entries in the Kitchen, and anyone who tried it in 2022 would reasonably have concluded it was unsupported. Seventeen releases later it covers nine out of ten possible partners. This is the strongest argument on the site for re-checking an emoji you wrote off: the combination count is not fixed, and some of them have moved enormously.
A phone is a frame, not a face
The reason this emoji mixes well now is structural. A phone is mostly screen, and a screen is somewhere to put the other emoji. That gives the artwork an easy composition rule that faces do not have, and it is why the phone reached 557 while expressive animals like wolf and penguin are stuck in the 350s. Object emoji with a flat surface tend to climb; emoji with a strong silhouette tend not to.
Make your own mashup
Want to combine different emojis? Use the interactive Emoji Kitchen tool to create your own custom mashups.
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Iphone Emoji Kitchen FAQ
Why is this emoji called iphone in the URL?
The slug follows the short name in Google's own Emoji Kitchen data, which uses iphone for the mobile phone character. The emoji itself is generic and every platform draws its own handset, so nothing here is specific to Apple devices.
Did the phone emoji always have this many combinations?
No. It launched in February 2022 with seven and stayed sparse until October 2024, when one release added 137. Anyone who tested it before then saw a fraction of what is available now.
Which phone pairings are worth trying first?
The ones where the partner reads as something on the screen rather than something attached to the handset. Those compose cleanly at message size. Pairings with large or busy partners tend to crowd the artwork and lose the phone outline.
Further reading
- Every Emoji Kitchen update since 2020All 43 dated drops and 147,000 pairings, counted from Googleโs own data files.
- How to use Emoji Mixer and KitchenWhich pairs actually produce a mashup, and which do nothing.
- Free online emoji gamesWhat to play, and which ones are actually hard.
- Free online emoji keyboardType emoji on any device without installing anything.