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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Integrate ChatGPT with Microsoft SwiftKey for better predictions Answered
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Hi, can you please integrate ChatGPT into Microsoft SwiftKey to provide better words in the predictions bar? I find that some of the predictions are way off the needle. ChatGPT is now owned by Microsoft and could be an excellent addition to the keyboard. Thank you, Phil -
Klavyenin Üstünde Sabit Olarak Parolalar Yazması Answered
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3 comments
Merhaba klavyenin üstünde whatsappta yazışırken veya farklı platformlarda yazışırken hep tahmin kelimeleri çıkması gerekirken Parolalar butonu çıkıyor ne yapmam gerek -
Ni puedo descargar temas de Microsoft swiftkey Answered
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No me sale ningún tema para descargar -
With two langages (french and english), Swiftkey writes words in french while my keyboard is in english, and vice versa
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7 comments
With two langages (french and english), Swiftkey writes words in french while my keyboard is in english, and vice versa.
That's really annoying, I'm trying to write in English so why do I have words in french that are written ?!
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Move euro symbol (€) on the Croatian keyboard as Croatia adopts the euro
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As Croatia is adopting the euro from 1 January 2023, can you please move the € symbol to where the $ symbol is now on the Croatian layout?
To access the dollar symbol ($) you need to select the numbers/symbols button on the keyboard where the dollar is on the second row, third character.
However, to access the euro symbol (€), you need to first select the numbers/symbols button, and then again select the button for other characters, which means, to get to the currency symbol of the country, you need three keypresses.
Also, it would be better if the euro symbol (€) replaced the dollar symbol ($) as the default longpress of the "x" key.
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Inserts space before punctuation marks
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Hello,
after tapping a suggested word and then a punctuation mark, Swiftkey removes the space between the word and the mark for the marks there should be no space before them, but for some marks it doesn't.
It removes the space after tapping a full stop, a comma, a question or exclamation mark, but not after a colon or a semicolon.
Also, I just noticed that the same occurs for reverse question and exclamation marks.
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[Feature Request] Turn off auto spaces
139 votes
156 comments
How can I turn off the feature which adds a space after every predicted word I select, or punctuation mark? It should only insert a space if I then decide to add another word. Having to delete excess spaces at the ends of things, or sometimes after the "#" in a hash tag, is really getting old quickly.
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Swiftkey on galaxy fold with separate layouts
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7 comments
Hi,
I've been using Swiftkey for many years, I really love this keyboard and features. I recently switched to a galaxy fold, and can't match the keyboard to a foldable use case.
Swiftkey has a one-handed layout, which is perfect for the main screen where I can't use swiping in any comfortable and precise way with the normal all-screen layout.
The problem is that if I set it to one handed layout, for some reason the keyboard on the external narrow screen is also narrower, even though simple logic dictates that the very narrow external display is already one-handed and shouldn't be resized.
I can't find any setting to disable this, I have to change the layout setting every time I switch displays which is stupidly annoying and making this keyboard useless on foldables.
Even the split ("thumb") layout follows to the external display, which is even stupider.
Samsung keyboard already has this obvious feature, there are settings to configure default layouts for main display and external display, the external one even has different settings for portrait and landscape modes.
Is there any way to force the keyboard to stay on full layout on the external display and one-handed layout on the main display? Or do I have to abandon Swiftkey for Samsung keyboard?
Thanks
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Toolbar not showing Answered
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5 comments
Hello, I have the problem in google sheets for example that the toolbar isn't showing and icon to open it also is missing, so that I can't use the clipboard. I need to type anything, then exit the cell and go back to it to get it shown. On some forms, often passwords, it's impossible to get it shown on any way. Is there a fix for that? Or can you add a shortcut on the keyboard to open the taskbar? Thank you Device make and model: Xiaomi Mi 9 Device Android version: 11 Current SwiftKey version: 7.8.7.8 Steps to reproduce: Open Google Sheets and open any cell - keyboard opens but toolbar is missing when it's empty. Or Xing login password field.
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[Feature Request] More intelligent copy-pasting ! 🎉
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1 comment
When you copy something, GBoard automatically recognizes emails, phone numbers, pin codes and urls. It then create separate clips (one for the full text and one for each of the recognized elements inside it). It would be easy I guess to develop such a useful feature for SwiftKey. Also when taking a screenshot, the image is also automatically added to GBoard's clipboard ! You can then send the image in no more than a single click in your conversations. That's dope and to be honest that's the only thing I really miss from GBoard. I really recommend you try this feature by yourself and see how GBoard makes it work, it's kind of a state-of-the-art :) Thanks!
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Pop-up Keys Answered
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3 comments
What does this setting "Show popup keys while typing on the keyboard" do?
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There's no Chinese teaching SwiftKey to learn languages
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1 comment
Why is there no Chinese Chinese character learning, Chinese also need this function very much, because there are too many Chinese character language combinations in the Chinese -
Voice to text not working on one phone but working on another.
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One of my s20fe 5G phones does not allow me to do voice to text. When I long press the mic, it asked me to install Google voice. Google Voice is installed. My identical phone allows me to do voice to text. Any idea how to fix the one phone that's broken? -
Auto-replace entry
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4 comments
Is it possible to set up an auto-replace entry?
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Persönliche Daten aus der Zwischenablage der SwiftKey Tastatur exportieren und..
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1 comment
Hallo leider weiß ich nicht wie ich meine persönlichen Daten aus der Zwischenablage der SwiftKey Tastatur exportieren und wie und wohin ich diese Datei in mein anderes Tastatur Design importieren kann. weil dann leider die ganzen vorher angepinnten Daten gelöscht werden, danke -
New line and new paragraph not working for voice input
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1 comment
This works fine if I use gboard or the Samsung keyboard. It appears to me that Google is blocking Swiftkey from these two commands. -
No automatic light/dark mode change Answered
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8 comments
This is happening since Android 13 on my Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra. The adaptive theme doesn't change to dark mode when I turn dark mode on in the device settings. -
emoji prediction defaults to male gender
8 votes
2 comments
How can I change the default gender of the text prediction emojis? I.e. The gender of the suggested emoji is always male, how do I change that to female?
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[Feature Request] Option to change font color and style
18 votes
13 comments
I love that SwiftKey Beta finally have released Photo Themes, and given users a possibility to design your own custom theme!!!
BUT it needs the possibility to deside the COLOR OF THE FONT. Without it it's not very usefull. It would also be good if you add a way to determend how transparent the photo theme is.
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Double PinYin(双拼输入法) Request
6 votes
3 comments
Hi, is there a plan to add double PinYin for Chinese? Google Pinyin lack of functionality, China's local input app have a lot of privacy risks.
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Very important issue with Persian language Answered
4 votes
4 comments
Very annoying issue SwiftKey has with Persian language is that it doesn't have separated key for some standard Persian letters that are used very frequently. While all other keyboard softwares having a separate key for them. Would you please consider this issue to be solved? The Persian letters are پ ، ض، ث، ژ، ظ -
Use Microsoft Online Voice Service Answered
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Add Microsoft Voice Online Services to keyboards, as Google services are not supported in some countries -
Adaptive keyboard layout for foldable devices Answered
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2 comments
As the title suggests, there is a lack in foldable phone support in the sense that competing keyboards like gboard are able to accommodate. Switching to split keyboard once the device is open would make SwiftKey so much more convenient. Foldable markets are growing. Hopefully SwiftKey keeps up.
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How to change clipboard 1 hour expiry settings
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Hi Team I would like to check how I can keep clipboard entries without pinning them more than for 1 hour. Any reason for 1 hour decision? It doesn't make sense. I am OK to clear entries on restart but expiry 8s my decision and I need to be able to control that. Also pinning doesn't seem to work as I can't see my pinned items from windows machine on my Android. I think that app needs a bit of improvements. Regards, Areg -
Add support for multiple layouts when using a foldable phone Answered
6 votes
3 comments
As the title says, SwiftKey is probably the best keyboard on Android and the fact that it doesn't support one layout for a small screen and another layout for a bigger/main screen is jarring. There aren't really any good alternatives out there and the foldable part of the SwiftKey community would benefit greatly from this addition. Heck, even Microsoft with their Duo series should have already thought about this problem for their users.
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Swiftkey Hungarian spell correction is useless. Answered
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5 comments
So I am obviously from Hungary and try to use Hungarian spell correction and it is ok for 5 to 10 percent of the time. Mostly it corrects the word to a less likely useful or used word. It makes me confusing because MS Office Word has a fantastic Hungarian spell correction database which is also Microsoft so why they don't apply it or use it for this?
Thanks!
Andy
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Не могу включить микрофон вк ВК Answered
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3 comments
Я не могу записать голосовое ВК потому что мне надо его как-то включить на Андроиде и у меня не получается данная процедура с включением микрофона Помогите кто знает ответ Как сделать это просто? -
[Feature Requests] Gesture controls for cut/copy/paste
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3 comments
Dear developer.
My name is: Minh Duc
I'm in Vietnamese.
I have used alot of Swype keyboard. So I see that, there are some function called
1. Swipe from" 123" button to "A" button to select all text
2. Swipe from "123" button to "C" button to copy
3. Swipe from "123" button to "X" button to cut.
4. Swipe from "123" button to "V" button to Paste.
I think Swiftkey keyboard need Tobe add these functions to become more and more convenient.
Many thanks for developing.