Gboard on Android is now rolling out the ability to set a default skin tone for your favorite emoji. We have been able to change skin tone for emoji in the past, but now changing it applies to all supported emoji at once.
In the past, doing this only changed that one emoji and only for that one use, while now it persists within the application until you change it again. It really is shocking that this hasn’t been a feature until now. Emojis have become part of day to day communication, even in most business settings.
Imagine how difficult typing would be if you had to long-press each letter to change it to a capital letter, then do it again to get a lowercase letter. This would be painful, slow and frustrating. And yet, when we want to modify the appearance of our emoji’s color or gender presentation, that’s exactly what we have to suffer through. – Google
