How to Combine Emojis on iPhone with Genmoji

Genmoji has had a great new update in iOS 26 that lets you combine existing emojis with your own creations to make the perfect emoji.

I’ll simply press the plus button in Messages, scroll down to Genmoji, and open up that same Genmoji picker as before. But you might notice at the bottom there’s now a list of frequently used emojis.

I can add a new emoji to this list by searching — and I’m going to go for the shocked face. Here we go, that’s perfect. When you tap on this, you can see it’s added to that generative cloud in the middle.

I’m going to combine it with the stars in the eyes emoji — the “I can’t believe how good something is” face. Just like that, Genmoji is going to get to work and merge those two emojis into one super emoji.

Just like before, you can swipe between the different options. But I think it’s got it right first time here — this is spot on.

What’s really fun though is that you can add more than two emojis into the melting pot. So if I add another one here — let’s go for an animal this time… let’s put the octopus in.

There we go. So I’ve got star eyes, shocked, and octopus — and now, just like before, it’s going to use all three of those different emojis to combine them into one.

And quite frankly, that one is horrifying. But if we swipe sideways — there you go, that’s exactly what I was hoping for in my head: a shocked, stars-in-their-eyes, octopus emoji. Perfect.

And you might be thinking, “Well, Jacob, why is this emoji so shocked?” — I’ll tell you why. It’s because they found my YouTube channel, were blown away by the amount of iOS 26 Quick Tips, and they hit that Subscribe button.