We recently brought Cursor Control to your Microsoft SwiftKey Keyboard for Android. This much-requested feature had previously only ever been available on iOS.
If you haven't tried it out you can do so by tapping & holding your spacebar to move the cursor.
If you use multiple languages, cursor control will need to be turned on first; this setting can be found in your ‘Typing’ menu.
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SwiftKey Q&A: Week 1 - Cursor Control Pinned Featured
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How to submit a Feature Request And/Or Ask a Question Pinned
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Hi guys,
How to submit a feature request
If you've had a really good idea and want SwiftKey to hear all about it, the best way to do that is to submit it via the 'Feature Request' form here:
https://support.swiftkey.com/hc/en-us/requests/new
We look forward to reading all your requests and improvements.
The best way to post a question
The community can help you answer your question with speed and quality. We highly recommend you always add this information to your post:
- Device make and model
- Device Android version
- Current SwiftKey version
- Steps to reproduce
- Any screen shots / video clips that help show the issue
The more information you can leave means the quicker your answer can get answered.
Best,
Ryan, SwiftKey Community Manager
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Prediction has disappeared Answered
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I have tried logging out, restarting my phone n then logging back on... Nothing works.
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Flow typing not working
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Flow typing has stopped working for me. Everything else seems to work though. Just no flow. I have uninstalled/reinstalled the app. Cleared cache. Restarted phone. Switched to Gestures and back. Talkback is not enabled. Not positive but it might have stopped working after recent android update.
Samsung Note20 Ultra 5g.
One UI version: 4.1
Android version 12
Android Security patch level May 1, 2022
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Huge typing problems in Facebook on Android
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In many cases, Swift has become impossible to use when entering or editing comments in Facebook. Typing straight-away works okay, but you sometimes can't delete a word without it getting confused, or insertion text (it inserts elsewhere). It seems it's losing track of the cursor position which causes odd behaviors. You can see that the suggested words get confused too (probably from the cursor problem.) I sometimes have to compose in another app and then paste. Very frustrating. I'm guessing that Facebook is doing some odd things that maybe trip-up SwiftKey. Needs to be fixed soon!
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Language data vanished Answered
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Hello,
this night my german language dataset disappeared and the language selection list is empty. Now Swiftkey is useless. I restarted my phone. Still the same problem.
Android 12, Pixel 6pro
Any idea?
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Swiftkey has stopped working! Answered
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I've been using swiftkey for years now with no issues. As of this morning it has complete broken. I can still "type" with it. But: The top bar with predictions and autocorrect has gone completely blank. Spellcheck is nonexistant I cant delete in blocks anymore, I have to tap delete for every letter and it doesnt autospace after punctuation or auto captialize letters. Swipe text has completwly stopped working. And finally if i press the emoji button it just completely freezes my phone which is just fantastic! I really dont want to have to switch keyboard apps as i really like swiftkey when its working so any help is very much appreciated. I have restarted my phone, cleared my caches and reinstalled the app multiple times now with no success. Help!
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Swiftkey no longer works Answered
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Just updated the app and it no longer works at all. Using Android,and it doesnt work in every app ive tried. Including here on your website
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Auto-correct changing valid words Answered
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Quite often SwiftKey will change a valid word to another word incorrectly. I'll type "while" and it will change it to "whole", "if" to "of" and similar. It would be great to have a switch to the effect "Don't change valid words".
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cursor jumping around weirdly and getting stuck (space bar cursor control fixes?) Answered
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Sometimes when I'm typing (not sure when this happens exactly) my cursor will be forcefully moved to a new location. when I try to tap in the text box to go where I want, the cursor moves visually, but when I type it puts me back in that new location. I'm stuck there until I long press the space bar to move the cursor in a new location. screen record example: https://imgur.com/a/WQ666Xz
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https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95759?hl=tr Answered
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Adem Answered
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speech-to-text closing after one word 2nd time being used
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when i use speech-to-text via long-pressing the comma button, it seems to work fine. if I leave the display up and hit the button again to say more, no matter how much I say it only outputs the first word, and it usually turns itself off after that one word. I think usually when this happens, if I hit the button again it works fine, then again will only be one word, and so on. this also happens if i: open speech to text say some stuff close speech to text open speech to text say some stuff this ^ is not an effective workaround, the bug still happens. i dont remember for sure if this happens if I close the keyboard and reopen it. I'll test that case and get videos soon. this has been happening for a long time, at least 6 months. I have a pixel 5 with updated Android. p.s. also planning to make a post soon about my cursor jumping around very frustratingly so lmk if anyone else has experienced that
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Hebrew Keyboard Answered
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Is there a shekel key on your Hebrew keyboard? I noticed there are some other money symbols, but I could not find the most important money symbol for a Hebrew keyboard.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shekel_sign
If there is one on the keyboard, where do I look?
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Keyboard crashes (with Slack) Answered
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Hello,
I would like to report crashes ocurring on my phone.
This happens in apps, if you tap to some input, the keyboard just won't show up. Tapping elsewhere and focusing other input also does not work, same as closing the other app and reopening, when this happens, the keyboard just won't show up anywhere in the system. The only thing working is going to SwiftKey app info, force-stopping the app and then starting the keyboard from the app drawer.
For me, it happens a lot in Slack application. Right now, I don't recall other app crashing it, but that also means I cannot say if other app does it or not.
Phone: Vivo V2050 (also marked as V21 5G)
Android: Android 12 with April security update
Keyboard: SwiftKey beta 8.10.15.2
Log: would like to attach, don't seet he option here on mobile though.
Thank you!
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Editing misspelled word causes cursor to jump to another spot Answered
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When using flow, if there's a error and I don't notice and use arrows to go back to the correction spot and start to type, the cursor suddenly jumps to the end and changes the last word I typed. This is a very new development and super annoying.
I have Android V12
SwiftKey V 8.10.14.5
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Custom themes
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Custom theme but with a shape user wants, maybe use one shape from existing theme and add or remove symbols to/from the keys?
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Chechen Latin Keyboard Layout
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Hi all! Please add a latin layout of the Chechen language.
You can find a layout I made for UNIX systems in the link below. Me and our community could help you integrate it into SwiftKey, if necessary.Chechen latin layout for UNIX: https://github.com/gushmazuko/chechen-latin-keyboard-layout
I am entirely at your service for further information.
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Here's thought: Answered
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Somebody who works @swiftkey pitch this to somebody who can make this happen: when long pressing the button situated next to Enter, there should also appear a Paste button.
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Clipboard improvement Answered
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Please add a feature that allows users to control clipboard content while posting from clipboard, while the clipboard is open, so there's no need to select where we want to paste the item, open clipboard paste the item, close the clipboard, select new area and open clipboard and then again close, open... Select... I propose that you add arrows in the clipboard, space and enter button that could control where a user would like to post items from the clipboard. If you didn't understand my suggestion, I can try to clarify it further.
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The (hold symbols doesn't work) Answered
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When you show the keyboard on screen you can see that hold letter will give you a certain symbol Example : holding on (S) gives you >> # Holding on (H) gives you >> + But in my swift keyboard i can't see what letter gives what " i must try this myself with trial and error technique"
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fc1b6531-7e41-4524-9d80-0d17845249aa Answered
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Material you Answered
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Please add material you Android 12 theming to Android version of SwiftKey.
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Clipboard history Answered
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How do I extend clipboard history time? It resets every day.
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SwiftKey too eager in splitting words in Dutch Answered
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I'm on Android with SwiftKey 8.10.13.1 with Dutch and English enabled. In a recent update in the last couple of months, SwiftKey has become quite destructive in splitting words in the smallest possible sensible components instead of the largest ones. This is annoying, because Dutch is a compounding language. That means we glue compounds or derivatives together, much like German, so we can have words like slaapkamerwekkerradio. SwiftKey doesn't like this. It especially seems to have an issue with words that have a preposition as a prefix/suffix. For instance it autocorrects "inspanning" as "in spanning", "vooraan" as "voor aan", "uitgeven" as "uit geven", and so on. This is only recently happening (somewhere this year), but it is quite annoying. I wish this could be remedied because I find that I have to correct SwiftKey much too often these days.
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请求适配安卓全键盘智能机型
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特别喜欢使用微软这款输入法,但是本人目前在用的是unihertz titan pocket这款小众机型,发现这款输入法对实体全键盘的支持较弱,希望增强适配.主要从几个功能提出诉求: 1.目前不能空格选词上屏 2.希望增加alt+数字键选词上屏功能 3.希望增加自定义短语功能,意思就是让用户自行设置按两下单个按键输入固定标点或短语,比如连续按两下k,输入可以的这个常用词汇
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Juanito Answered
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Selamat
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Backspace to undo correction Answered
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As a bilingual user, SwiftKey sometimes replaces English words by Dutch ones which is pretty annoying. Gboard uses backspace to undo the correction so can you please implement this?
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Please add this to Malayalam language
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Hi, Just wanted to say that it is next to impossible to type the word "trip" in Malayalam. It always add the word "drip" which is correctly translated as "ട്രിപ്പ്". The t sound is "റ്റ". The d sound is "ട". Similarly for the word "tree" it wrongly translates to "ട്രീ", which sounds like "dree". So for "trip", just replace "ട" to "റ്റ" and it will be perfect.
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Learning new words SwiftKey keyboard Answered
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Hi i think in the future need a new features which is learning new words from typing.This is useful when user is typing and it will come out as a suggestion thank you