Emoji Merge: Drop

Version 1.1.10 improves record recovery, account consistency, and synchronization:

• Automatically restore eligible Score and Combo records from earlier versions to Global All Time.
• Keep the in-game BEST display consistent with your active online profile.
• Save new Combo records during a run so they can sync to All Time after you leave.
• Improve gem, ticket, purchase, and reward synchronization after reconnecting.
• Keep guest progress on your device, separate from your Game Center profiles.
• Prevent delayed rewards or responses from affecting another account or restoring deleted profile data.
• Defer routine game-account synchronization until the run ends and avoid unnecessary wallet refreshes.
• Improve translated labels and VoiceOver descriptions while keeping character names unchanged.

See record recovery and guest and online profile help. An unfinished board is not a cloud save.

Version 1.1.9 brings shared leaderboards, character avatars, account wallet sync, and more room to play:

• Compete with iOS and Android players in shared global Score and Combo rankings.
• Unlock profile avatars by discovering characters in the game, then choose your favorite in Online Profile.
• Sync gems and tickets across devices using the same Game Center account.
• Manage, delete, or reconnect your online profile from Settings.
• Improved reward collection, connection recovery, and all-time record restoration.
• Earn up to three optional ad rewards per ability each run, nine in total.
• The cup now expands again when you reach Luna.
• Refined Crownix and Luna animations, collection spacing, and translations.
• Added New Year character looks and backgrounds, active December 1–January 14 inclusive (UTC).

Keep the same Game Center account to restore synchronized balances. Apple and Google profiles remain separate. See competition rules, online profile help, and the updated Privacy Policy.

Version 1.1.8 brings more reliable cup rendering, improved automatic-ad timing, and better stability diagnostics:

• Fixed an issue that could make the cup disappear on some older devices.
• Improved automatic-ad timing when the device date or time changes.
• Added controls to manage ad availability.
• Improved diagnostics to help investigate app hangs.

See cup and stability help and automatic-ad timing.

Version 1.1.7 brings clearer Settings and ticket screens, improved iPhone Duo layouts, and better readability:

• Increased text size in graphics and streaming-quality settings.
• Improved translated sound and vibration switches.
• Refined run-selection buttons and ticket-benefit explanations.
• Improved logo and loading-indicator alignment.
• Improved menus, the playfield, and button access on iPhone Duo.
• Fixed discovery backgrounds when the window size changes.
• Updated the advertising integration for device compatibility.
• Improved text fitting on translated Choose Ability buttons.

See Settings and translated button help and Mac controls and iPhone Duo layouts.

Version 1.1.6 brings support for 15 languages, a redesigned main menu, Emoji Vault, and Shop, and clearer gameplay messages:

• Added Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Ukrainian, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Turkish, Indonesian, Polish, Traditional Chinese, Thai, and Hindi alongside English.
• Choose your language from Settings in the main menu or while a game is paused, or follow your device language automatically.
• Switch languages instantly without restarting the app or resetting your current run, and keep your choice after relaunching.
• Redesigned the main menu with refreshed progress cards and a clearer layout.
• Refreshed the Emoji Vault with clearer collection progress and next-discovery information.
• Redesigned Shop cards for gem packs, tickets, and the 7-Day Party Pass, with clearer rewards and purchase options.
• Improved text spacing, wrapping, and readability across gameplay, abilities, leaderboards, rewards, and dialogs.
• Refined gameplay and menu backgrounds on iPad to keep decorative artwork visible on larger displays.
• Clarified Merge, Clear, and Lift instructions, ability availability, and gem purchase-limit messages.
• Improved the language picker and clarified creator-code guidance in the Shop.

See language settings and supported languages and the refreshed menu, Vault, and Shop.

Version 1.1.5 brings seasonal discoveries, new character animations, a refined glass cup, and more control over optional ability rewards:

• Meet Vesper, Pumpkin, Webix, and Boo Luna, with animated bat, spider, and ghost companions, from October 1 through November 2 (UTC).
• Explore Halloween backgrounds for the Rare and Mystery worlds and a festive main-menu logo.
• Discover Prisma’s refreshed artwork and flowing rainbow glow, plus Glossy’s sleepy eyelids and gentle nod.
• Enjoy refreshed Crownix artwork and animated lightning effects for Ninjix.
• See your emojis more clearly through a thinner glass-cup rim and softer reflections.
• Keep cup artwork and collision boundaries in sync as the cup expands at levels 11 and 13.
• Improved cup collisions and the visibility of escaped emojis. Game over waits until an escaped emoji fully clears the visible cup base.
• Choose Merge, Clear, or Lift before confirming an optional rewarded ad, with up to two ad rewards per ability per run and clearer availability messages.
• Smoothed loading progress and the transition into gameplay, with optimized character animations and visual effects.

See Halloween dates and characters, character animation help, and how to choose an ability reward.

Version 1.1.4 brings more balanced Clear gameplay, clearer cup expansion feedback, and improved leaderboards:

• Updated Clear to remove emojis at levels 1–7. Levels 8–15 are protected, with lock badges and clearer selection hints.
• Prevented Clear from spending a use or gems on protected emojis, and blocked gem purchases when no eligible target is available.
• Added a “Bigger cup!” message when the cup expands at levels 11 and 13. The message pauses with the game.
• Optimized rendering of the cup-growth message, Clear lock badges, and ability hints.
• Updated Apple leaderboards to show the Top 100 and the total participant count. Your own rank remains visible even outside the Top 100.
• Improved player search to include participants beyond the Top 100, with clearer progress and retry messages.
• Improved leaderboard refreshing and reuse of recently loaded rankings without interrupting a long-running search.
• Fixed the Invite Friends share sheet opening unexpectedly after returning to the game with the leaderboard open.
• Refined the launch screen transition and leaderboard spacing.
• Refined Settings styling for a more consistent appearance.

See Clear ability rules, cup-growth milestones, leaderboard search help, and friend invitation help.

Version 1.1.3 brings creator code redemption, clearer ability offers, a more polished Mac experience, and leaderboard improvements:

• Added Creator Code redemption in the Shop through the App Store.
• Added an optional random-ability ad offer when an ability has no available use and cannot be acquired with gems, with clear loading and availability labels.
• Improved background coverage on Macs with Apple silicon, with consistent artwork across menus, gameplay, and window sizes.
• Improved full-window coverage for modal dimming and loading screens on Mac.
• Refined main-menu spacing and the placement of the game cup and ability controls on Mac.
• Increased gem prizes for top-10 finishes in upcoming Global Weekly and Monthly Score and Combo competitions.
• Improved leaderboard loading, pagination beyond the first 20 players, and refreshing when rankings change.
• Clarified when to sync and collect seasonal rewards.
• Updated score-panel rendering on iPhone to address intermittent flickering during score updates.
• Updated Quick Break timing and Game Over ad loading. Premium runs continue to suppress automatic ads.

See reward amounts and season dates for the increased prizes and when they apply. Learn how to redeem a creator code or earn an ability reward.

Version 1.1.2 brings improved Mac support, refreshed discovery effects, and reliability fixes:

• Added keyboard and pointer controls on Macs with Apple silicon, with improved window resizing and Retina rendering.
• Improved adaptive layouts for menus, gameplay controls, leaderboards, the collection, and the shop in preparation for iPhone Duo.
• Improved preservation of the game board and active run when the game window changes size.
• Improved background coverage and modal sizing across changing screen layouts.
• Refreshed new-emoji discovery celebrations with animated stars, a moving ring, and improved positioning.
• Improved scrolling feedback in the Leaderboard Guide.
• Improved audio startup and recovery after interruptions, including protection against an audio-player startup crash.
• Improved full-screen ad presentation during window transitions.
• Improved responsiveness of main-menu buttons, leaderboard filters, and modal interactions.

On Mac, aim with the pointer or Left/Right arrow keys, press Space to drop, and use Escape or P to pause and resume. Mac support is for Macs with Apple silicon. See controls and display help.

Version 1.1.1 brings new rewards and a more polished game:

• Added gem rewards for top-10 finishes on Global Weekly and Monthly Score and Combo leaderboards.
• Added one bonus Golden Ticket for your first finalized Monthly top-3 finish, once per account across Score and Combo.
• Added prize previews to the main-menu leaderboard and podiums, with a clearer information panel and Sync button.
• Eligible rewards now go straight to your game wallet with a short confirmation.
• Improved leaderboard refreshes after new records, tied-rank handling, and next-score targets.
• Improved reward synchronization and recovery after connection interruptions.
• Improved ad loading, audio recovery, and returning to play after ads.
• Refined iPhone shadows, leaderboard layouts, and the Lift ability preview.

Rewards become eligible 24 hours after a season ends. Sync promptly afterward, while Game Center still has your previous-season result, signed in to Game Center and iCloud. Monthly seasons last 30 days. All Time and Friends views do not award prizes. See reward amounts and collection help.

• Compete on six Game Center leaderboards: best score and longest combo across weekly, 30-day, and all-time periods.
• Check the podium, your rank, and the next target directly from the main menu.
• Browse rankings, search loaded players, and invite friends to beat your best.
• Restore all-time personal records submitted to Game Center when you sign in with the same account on another device or after reinstalling.
• Enjoy refined menus and leaderboard layouts on iPhone and iPad, plus smoother launch, HUD, and ad-loading behavior.

Rankings compare your highest score in a single completed run and your longest combo chain. Weekly boards run for seven days; Monthly boards run for 30 days, rather than calendar months. All-time boards never reset. Game Center sign-in is needed to submit scores, but the game remains playable without it.

Record restoration covers submitted all-time best scores and combos. Gems, tickets, your Emoji Vault, and saved runs remain local to your device. See Game Center help for sign-in, competition timing, and missing results.

• Smoother HUD flashes, overlays, and screen transitions.
• Faster, more reliable ad loading and presentation.
• Refined automatic ad timing at natural gameplay breaks.
• Expanded gameplay and purchase measurement to help improve balance, store flows, and reliability.
• Added Firebase Crashlytics to diagnose crashes and improve stability more quickly.

• Emoji contacts look tighter while keeping their soft squash and bounce.
• Combo progression, titles, colors, and sound feedback now continue all the way to x99.
• The in-game HUD is steadier and better fitted on iPad, with the Low Power Mode banner removed during active play.
• Launch progress, emoji animations, and ability-card presentation are smoother and more consistent.
• Rewarded ability ads recover correctly after reaching the 6/6 reward limit and starting a new run.
• Improved overall ad loading, recovery, and measurement.

• Fast chain reactions now keep combo timing, rewards, score labels, sounds, and haptics in the correct order.
• Discovery celebrations and achievement cards are easier to follow.
• Gameplay resumes more cleanly after notifications, interruptions, and returning to the app.
• Ad loading and rewarded-ad status are more reliable.
• Additional stability and performance improvements.

• Added natural breathing, squish, slosh, and bounce animations so emojis feel more alive.
• Kept settled emoji piles steadier to reduce tiny movements and visual jitter.
• Improved smoothness in Low Power Mode and under heavy device load, with adaptive optional effects.
• Kept combos, rewards, discoveries, sounds, and score updates correctly ordered during fast chain reactions.
• Improved recovery after notifications, Control Center, app switching, and returning to the game.
• Additional performance and stability improvements.

• Merge Match now completes at the second emoji you tap.
• Quick Breaks are timed more predictably and begin only after the board settles.
• Short runs now remain ad-free at Game Over.
• Rewarded-ability buttons clearly show when an ad is loading, ready, opening, unavailable, or fully claimed.
• Improved ad loading, recovery, and overall gameplay continuity.

• Improved gameplay performance, especially when many emojis interact.
• Made the Shop and Collection faster and smoother to load.
• Refined navigation across the main menu, Shop, and in-game screens.
• Added clear purchase confirmations for gem packs, ticket packs, bundles, and the 7-Day Party Pass.
• Improved accessibility, including better Reduce Motion support.
• Additional interface and performance improvements.

• Optimized emoji motion and soft-body effects for smoother performance, especially in crowded stacks.
• Updated ad timing and frequency, with long-session ads appearing only at natural game transitions.
• Replaced Change Next with Lift, a new ability that lets you retrieve an emoji from the cup and drop it again.
• Additional gameplay stability and polish.

• Improved emoji squish, bounce, collision, and idle animations.
• Kept physics consistent across all visual modes, including Low Power Mode.
• Reduced the wait before the next emoji becomes available.
• Fixed rapid-tap issues that could cause unintended drops or leave drop controls stuck.
• Improved full-screen and rewarded-ad recovery after ads close or fail to close properly.
• Updated visual settings to Performance, Auto, and Max with clearer descriptions.

• Improved rendering performance during rapid drops, merges, and combos.
• Improved performance and visual behavior in Low Power Mode and under heavy device load.
• Fixed the NEXT preview so it matches the upcoming emoji.
• Fixed delays and overlapping UI during discovery celebrations, plus restart and Golden Ticket issues.
• Improved ability availability, controls, and layout.
• Improved recovery after pausing or switching apps, with audio, visual, and stability fixes.

• Launched physics-based drop-and-merge gameplay on iPhone and iPad.
• Introduced 15 original emoji evolutions to discover.
• Added combo rewards, gems, strategic abilities, and the Emoji Vault.

Account and synchronization fixes help preserve your progress when reconnecting or switching profiles.

• Improved All Time BEST and Combo recovery for the active online profile without lowering newer local records.
• Kept guest gems, tickets, records and discoveries separate from online profiles, including after failed reconnects.
• Improved purchase, wallet and reward recovery, account switching, and protection from delayed responses after profile deletion.
• Deferred routine game-account synchronization until Game Over, including paused, backgrounded and restored unfinished runs. Purchase backup and confirmed profile deletion remain available.
• Reduced unnecessary wallet and leaderboard requests, with bounded sign-in waits and offline fallback.

A focused leaderboard fix for shared Score and Combo competitions.

• Fixed rankings failing to load when players have equal results.
• Restored the correct next target when nearby players share the same score or combo.
• Clarified unique places, server-received tie-breaking, and seasonal prizes in all 15 languages. Earlier records rank higher; rewards follow your final Global place.

Shared competitions, character avatars, and account wallet sync bring more ways to play.

• Compete with iOS players in shared global Score and Combo rankings, with Weekly and 30-day Monthly seasonal rewards.
• Unlock each of the 15 character avatars through discoveries and choose your favorite in Online Profile.
• Sync gems, tickets, and all-time records across devices with the same Play Games account.
• Manage, delete, or reconnect your online profile from Settings.
• Improved reward collection, connection recovery, and wallet restoration.
• Earn up to three optional ad rewards per ability each run, nine in total.
• The cup expands again at Luna. Crownix and Luna animations, collection spacing, and translations are refined.
• Added New Year character looks and backgrounds, active December 1–January 14 inclusive (UTC).

Reward availability depends on season settlement and enabled payouts; see the in-game Leaderboard Guide and Android leaderboard help.

Improved ad handling helps you keep playing when an ad cannot be shown.

• Improved recovery after failed ad displays. Gameplay continues while replacement ads are unavailable.
• Kept the timing between automatic ads consistent after restarting the game or changing the device date.
• Removed an extra delay before a ready replacement Quick Break ad, while keeping the usual notice and safe pause in gameplay.
• Added diagnostics to help identify ad-related freezes and investigate long ad displays.

Android player support

Clearer ability labels and better tablet layouts make the game easier to read in every supported language.

• Centered icons and text together in ability labels, including ad rewards, loading states, availability, and gem prices.
• Made each rounded label fit its translated text: short captions use less space, while longer captions expand and scale to fit the card.
• Refined Shop header sizes, localized branding, and wallet controls on tablets.
• Reduced excess space above the tablet Leaderboard and aligned translated headers.
• Improved Emoji Vault title fitting on tablets while preserving collection spacing.
• Kept the installed app name as Emoji Merge in every language; the store title is Emoji Merge: Drop.

Android player support

Clearer explanations and flexible layouts help you keep playing comfortably.

• Improved Settings with larger explanations, multiline text, and better spacing between controls.
• Clarified ticket-run choices and their benefits.
• Adapted gameplay, menus, and overlays to foldable screen changes and safe areas while preserving the active run and pause state.
• Added localized Google Play descriptions and screenshot galleries for all 15 supported languages.

Android support and compatibility

Fresh layouts make it easier to explore the shop, follow your collection, and play in your language.

• Redesigned the shop, Party Pass, and pack cards with clearer prices, contents, and benefits.
• Refined menu spacing and Emoji Vault collection progress.
• Improved translations, language selection, and text fitting on phones and tablets, including Japanese pack titles.
• Clarified ability hints and rewarded-ad messages, with feedback when Lift has no target or the gem-purchase limit is reached.
• Fixed background artwork being cropped on larger screens.

Android player support

Play in your preferred language and follow your next leaderboard goal more clearly.

• Added 15 languages: English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Ukrainian, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Turkish, Indonesian, Polish, Traditional Chinese, Thai, and Hindi.
• Choose a language in Settings or follow your device language. Changes apply immediately, including during a paused run.
• Refined translated menus, shop text, reward captions, and service dialogs, with layouts that fit each language.
• Fixed leaderboard positions for tied results and made your next result to beat consistent with the ranking order.

How to change your game language

A hotfix for clear character details and more efficient gameplay.

• Fixed emojis becoming blurry during active play and rapid drops.
• Kept character details, cup outlines, the drop guide, and score labels at native display resolution across graphics modes.
• Reduced gameplay save preparation overhead while preserving progress and checkpoint reliability.
• Improved resource preparation and HUD caching without changing physics, scoring, or drop timing.

Android support and compatibility

Fresh character details bring more life to every merge.

• Refreshed Prisma’s artwork with a flowing rainbow aura, blending cyan, violet, pink, and gold around the character.
• Added Glossy’s gentle sleepy-eye animation and nod, with individual timing for each character.
• Added a festive Halloween logo to the main menu during the October 1–November 2 (UTC) season.
• Animations follow gameplay pause and reduced-motion settings. Prisma keeps a still glow; Glossy returns to its resting pose.

Android support and compatibility

• Added Halloween characters and seasonal worlds from October 1 through November 2 (UTC).
• Choose Merge, Clear, or Lift before an optional rewarded ad. Earn up to two ad rewards per ability and six per run.
• Improved cup growth, character motion, and Game Over behavior.
• Improved loading, graphics performance, Play Games connections, stability, and ad recovery.
• Refreshed Prisma’s artwork and added gameplay analytics and crash diagnostics to help improve reliability.

• Launched touch-based drop-and-merge gameplay on Android phones and tablets, with 15 original emoji evolutions.
• Introduced combos, gems, the Emoji Vault, and Merge, Clear, and Lift abilities.
• Added Google Play Games sign-in and separate Android Score and Combo rankings across Weekly, Monthly, and All Time.
• Added Google Play purchases, premium-run tickets, and the weekly Party Pass.