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  • swiftkey cloud not signing in
    1 vote 21 comments

    hi... i have been trying to sync my old swiftkey data from cloud account .... but its not signing in ... when i enter user name and pasword, it shows processing .... but nothing happens. please help me out

    user login email id : ammazer.zuhair@gmail.com

  • Synching your old data to a new phone
    1 vote 20 comments

    I just got a new phone and I thought all my data and settings would transfer over when I installed the app on my new phone, but it hasn't. Please help! I'm on android.

  • Missing theme - Pitch Planned
    5 votes 20 comments

    I love this app, but after I wiped my phone and re-installed everything, I couldn't find the Pitch theme - has it been removed?

    Thanks for your assistance!

  • Support for the Ukrainian language
    36 votes 20 comments

    Dear SwiftKey team,

    Please add support for the Ukrainian language, I and many of my friends are waiting for this for several years. A lot of people know about your keyboard. Ukraine ranks 8th in the number of inhabitants in Europe. 

     

    Thank you

     

  • [Feature Request] Arrow Keys row on top (or customizable)
    26 votes 19 comments

    Hi,

    Would it be possible to choose where the arrow keys row is (top/bottom/middle/left/right)? Currently they can only be on the bottom (regular layout) or in the middle (thumb layout) but both of these options are very inconvenient, as arrows get pressed all the time by mistake. For example, I constantly press arrows when intending to press Space and it drives me nuts. On the other hand, I like using the arrow keys. To me, the solution would be just to have the arrow keys on top, so that I never press them by mistake.

  • Galaxy S8 keyboard types sporadically
    6 votes 19 comments

    I am a loyal user of the Swiftkey keyboard!  Unfortunately the keyboard does not function properly on my new Samsung Galaxy S8. It jumps ahead a space mid-word then continues typing the word but at that point it is not a real word because it is the second half of the word. This is the case with about 50% of what I type.

  • Can you fine tune autocorrect? Answered
    1 vote 19 comments

    I'm finding SwiftKey incredibly annoying for a few different reasons: firstly because it autocorrects words that are legitimately words (i.e. not nonsense from poor typing); and secondly because it autocorrects when searching from address bar in Google.

    These two things are very undesirable behaviours for me and they drive me bonkers.

    I don't just want to turn autocorrect off, though, because I do want it to fix up genuine mistakes.

    Is there a way to tune the settings so that I can turn off the things I don't want??

  • Suggestions and feedback from new user
    1 vote 19 comments

    I really appreciate details like adjusting sound and vibrate with really fine adjustment, which alternatives neglect.

    Things I wish it had:
    *hyphenation and colons, etc are added with a space making it difficult to add new hyphenated words.

    *backspace has to be held down to delete wrong words. I realize this preference may vary but I've gotten used to a backspace resulting in immediate deletion of entire wrong word, not only by a long press.

    *wish the top and bottom bars were smaller

    *wish the top bar had more suggestions and or scrolled right

    *when the accent and unusual characters menu is disabled I wish holding down a key double long still offered the accent and unusual characters which turn out to be really hard to access unless it's enabled. Alternatively one could long press the number option for additional key maps.

    Overall a great feeling and functioning, intuitive, fun keyboard comparable to an apple product and that is a high complement.

  • Clipboard in Gmail acting weird.
    1 vote 19 comments

    For some reason some of the saved clipboard shortcuts are not transposing in Gmail. For instance, I set 1 to be a shortcut for my signature:

    Vincent Costa
    RE/MAX Competitive Edge
    908-242-6782

    Which worked perfectly here but in Gmail for some reason all it types is "2e". 2e. This is very recent. Within the past few days. I don't know why.

  • How to get more than 5 languages Answered
    0 votes 18 comments

    Hi there!

    Is there anything I can do to add more than 5 languages? While I can add more to my list, I cannot activate more than 5 at any given time.
    It is also quite a nuisance that you cannot instruct SwiftKey to restrict suggestions to a single language. If languages share the same fundamental layout principles, auto suggestions (auto-correct) will consider several languages at once which can make life quite hard.
    For instance, German, French, English (UK) and Dutch will be "running" simultaneously, sometimes producing ridiculous suggestions.

    Cheers,
    Olaf

  • clipboard Answered
    3 votes 18 comments

    Does the SwiftKey backup system also back up my clipboard pinned snippets?

  • [Tutorial] How to prevent your keyboard switching from SwiftKey back to the stock keyboard Featured
    -1 votes 18 comments

    Dear SwiftKey users,

    We heard several times that some of you may run into an issue that annoys you very much: I selected SwiftKey as default input method, and it will randomly switch back to the stock (OEM) keyboard

    Reason no.1 is the RAM cleaner killed SwiftKey. The solution is very easy: add SwiftKey into the white-list.

    More importantly: it also could because some of the phones' OS has special RAM management and battery monitor to control the usage of each app. SwiftKey Keyboard for Android supports 5 languages at the same time, plus the Neural (AI learning) technology for predicting next words intelligently might need a bit more power from your phone. This could cause unwanted accidentally killing of SwiftKey


    How to prevent it?
    Well, different phones have different OS, even if they're all Android, but deeply customized. Here I list some of the phones which ran into this issue.

    Samsung devices before Android Nougat update and some other close to stock android OS phones: System Settings > Battery (Power) > Battery Optimization > tap "not optimized" and select "all apps" > Find SwiftKey > Choose "Don't optimize".

    Samsung device after Android Nougat (7.0+) update: System Settings > Device Maintenance > Battery > Unmonitored apps > Add apps > check SwiftKey.

    Oppo smartphones: Security Center > Battery > Enable Smart power-saving mode > Power-saving app control and management > Add apps > check SwiftKey.

    Xiaomi smartphones: Go to Security Tab -Permission-Auto-start management - Add auto-start apps, check SwiftKey.

    Hope this little tutorial can help you. Let us know if you have any other tips or tricks to help others out

    Alpert & SwiftKey Mod Team.

  • Want to become a beta tester for SwiftKey for iOS? Pinned Answered
    3 votes 18 comments

    Want to help make SwiftKey for iOS better by testing the latest builds and features?

    Follow this link to sign up!!

    There is no code, and never has been. If you are getting asked for a code, kill TestFlight or try signing out and signing back in and then click the link above again. 

    Best,

    Ryan, SwiftKey Community Manager

  • Why do I get a pound sign instead of dollar Answered
    2 votes 18 comments

    I have speech set to uk. But the keyboard setup is English Australia. So why don't I get a dollar on the keyboard. It's very frustrating to have to type in the word dollar every time. . I don't the stupid £ sign.

  • SwiftKey has become a nightmare
    4 votes 18 comments

    Hi

    I've been using SwiftKey for years now, and it has become more and more painful, to the point that I'm a meme to my friends now due to the way I type if I don't read twice before sending.

    First, it looks like SwiftKey went from correcting my typos to considering that my typos are the way words are supposed to be written. So it corrects the right words into wrong.

    Second, the French corrector is pretty broken to begin with, there are even tenses it don't know. So I have to manually rewrite verbs, even if I had them right the first time, because SwiftKey mess with it.

    Last of all, since I switched to a new A5 2016 recently, the keyboard sometimes erases one to two words while I'm typing, for no reason.

    I also have the "SwiftKey closing while I'm typing" problem I saw elsewhere, happens on Textra and Facebook Messenger.

    I use the last beta of the app, with swift off because it made the keyboard even more laggy and unpredictable.

    I wanted to change app, but yours is the best in terms of customization and key placement.

    As you could have guessed I'm French. Strangely enough (?) I had absolutely no issue typing this message. Is French the problem? Or the way your app learnt me? Both?

    Cheers.

  • Swiftkey refuses to show on spotlightsearch iphone
    0 votes 18 comments

    Hi,

    I love the swiftkey keyboard and have been using it since the first day ios8 came out. But there are some really annoying problems which needs to be resolved on ios.

    One very annoying issue is that the keyboard just refuses to show up on the spotlight screen. Please see the image below. This does not always happen but I would say it happens more than average number of times I attempt to use the spotlight search.

    Please see the attached image here:

    post-201328-0-86473800-1413801095_thumb.

    I hope you will fix this in the next update. Even the time it takes for the keyboard to load it too much. The last update did say that you have fixed the high load time but I dont see much difference.

    Sometimes the swiftkey keyboard opens high up.

    Like this:

    post-201328-0-87785700-1413801096_thumb.

    When do you think these issues will be taken care of? Are these fixes going to released anytime soon?

  • Something went wrong. Reboot the Translator [Fixed]
    8 votes 17 comments

    Hi.

    An error has occurred, and therefore, difficulties arise when using the built-in translator in the keyboard. Constantly writes: "Something went wrong. Restart the Translator." This error occurs when I want to spell a word, or a sentence not in English. Help me please.

    Thanks...

  • Backup not syncing to another device
    10 votes 17 comments

    Device backup from previous device is not syncing to the new device. 

  • Keyboard covers what I'm typing on Instagram DM
    3 votes 17 comments

    Keyboard covers what I'm typing on Instagram DM, it covers the input field, i have my navigation buttons on hide, when the navigation buttons are shown everything is ok

  • Twitter personalization fails
    10 votes 17 comments

    The browser window pops up for a second and force closes. All the other ones are working. I am logged into Twitter on my device on the stock app.

  • Cannot remove word prediction Answered
    4 votes 17 comments

    Hi, 

    SwiftKey started suggesting me "c è" everytime I press "c", which is annoying as what I really want is "c'è" with the apostrophe (Italian).

    My problem is I cannot get rid of that "c è" as if I long press the suggested word, nothing happens. Long pressing other words works, so this is really strange.

    Thank you in advance,

    Francesco

  • Why can't I insert a GIF when replying to a message? Answered
    -4 votes 17 comments

    When I reply to message and select a GIF I get prompted for the recipient as though it is a new message. This loses the recipient for the reply. This happens in all of my messaging apps. It doesn't happen with emojis. Why?

  • Persian Answered
    0 votes 17 comments

    Arabic alphabet 28 , Persian alphabet 32

  • Account won't sync across devices Answered
    1 vote 17 comments

    I have a tablet that I use SwiftKey on, and just also installed it onto my new smartphone. I made sure backup & sync was enabled on the tablet, then signed into the same account on the phone and told it to sync, but my account data won't load.

  • Voice input is slow Answered
    0 votes 16 comments
    In the last month whenever I use voice input, most of the words I speak don't show up and the words that do are shown very slowly
  • Unable to sync learned words between Android devices
    12 votes 16 comments

    Every time I re-install swiftkey on same device or install to a new android device my predicted words  dissapeared! Even Backup/restore was ON on previous device and on the new device also, triggered sync many times on both devices!

    This happened the second time for me between different devices, word backup never worked. What the cloud backup is for then? What is the purpose?

     

     

    Before you say I turned off backup, my data exists in the cloud at data.swiftkey.com, but does not synced to any of new devices: 

     

  • Transfer/sync predictions not working [Reported]
    1 vote 16 comments

    My predictions and saved words are not transferred to my new phone and the saved words don't show up in predictions.
    I have synced both phones and I have tried uninstalling swiftkey beta and reinstalling it.
    I can see the words are saved when I view my data on the swiftkey website.

  • Sync not possible.
    6 votes 16 comments

    I have a new smartphone since yesterday. am connected to a google account. My predictions are not syncronized.

  • Swiftkey Backup Problem
    8 votes 16 comments

    Hello. My problem is about backup and sync. First I have to tell you these. 5 years ago I was using LG G3, and I moved on iPhone 6 Plus and I was able to use my old predictions. And then I moved on Xiaomi Mi 8, I was still be able to use all my learned data. And now I changed my phone to Oneplus 7 pro, and in the app I cannot see any of my learned data.
    https://data.swiftkey.com/view-data in this website I can see my learned data, the words that I use most before on the other phones, but they won't show up on my new phone. 5-6 years of learned data was making my life easier but now I am not happy to use this app. So question is what should I do?

  • [Main Thread] Chinese handwriting problem Completed
    3 votes 16 comments

    After the new update today, Chinese handwriting function can't activate. The long press to active function was gone after the newest update on 29Mar2019, can you guys please have a check please? Many thanks.

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