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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We'd love to know what you think. This is YOUR opportunity to help us shape the future of Cursor Control, e.g. is it useful? Does it work as you expect? Could it be improved? Do you love/hate it?
Whatever your opinion, we will take all feedback seriously.
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Ask the community your SwiftKey for Android related questions
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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. -
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! -
Punctuation keys next to Space
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4 comments
There is one thing missing from this keyboard to make it perfect, in my opinion. Something LG keyboard has and is very useful: the ability to change the most used punctuation key(s) near the space bar. Right not there is a "," and a ".", the latter having a drop-down menu. I would like to be able to change them to what i use most. In LG, this is possible and you are even able to move their location (left or right).
Would you consider implementing this in the future, please?
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Needless space before punctuation marks
4 votes
9 comments
Hi! I'm using your keyboard for many years. And all this time I'm struggling one annoying issue. SK puts a needless space BEFORE colon, semicolon and quotation marks and puts no space after them. This happens in the Flow mode. Is there any way to fix it or get your really useful update?
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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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cursor jumping around weirdly and getting stuck (space bar cursor control fixes?) Answered
1 vote
7 comments
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 -
Swiftkey has stopped working! Answered
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6 comments
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! -
Auto-correct changing valid words Answered
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3 comments
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". -
Remove the prediction bar option Not planned
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4 comments
Hi! I have a lil' bit of a problem here... I've been using your app on and off for several years now (for some reason on my older phones it came preinstalled and without an option to uninstall it so i had to remove updates and disable in case of not using it).
It's a nice app but it lacks one very important option... the one where you can remove that freaking crappy suggestion bar that eats from my display when i type messages.. I've tried changing to my language but I never use it..
On the first screenshot is that useless bar with the autocorrect off and on the second it's the keyboard without a language selected (an even bigger mess).
I know that you guys want my/our data badly and try to scoop it little by little, but at least for those 0.1% of us that find it completely useless at least give us the option to BURN AND DESTROY the living hell of it... For the time being i'll go and try to find some other keyboard that hopefully has that option regardless of how unsafe it is but it would be nice to hear back from you guys.
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Language data vanished Answered
1 vote
1 comment
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 no longer works Answered
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2 comments
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 -
Custom themes
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1 comment
Custom theme but with a shape user wants, maybe use one shape from existing theme and add or remove symbols to/from the keys? -
Synching your old data to a new phone
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23 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.
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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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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 -
Adem Answered
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0 comments
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https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95759?hl=tr Answered
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1 comment
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Editing misspelled word causes cursor to jump to another spot Answered
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4 comments
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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Turn off phonetic keyboard in urdu Answered
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1 comment
Is is possible to just use the urdu keyboard and turn off new phonetic option. Phonetic keyboard stacks with English keyboard and changes some English words to urdu. Really annoying.
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Is Urdu available separately from the English keyboard? Answered
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5 comments
When SwiftKey first introduced Urdu as an input option, it was a standalone language with its own keyboard (albeit with the keys based on the same positions as QWERTY). In the years since, SwiftKey then combined it with the English keyboard. This is infuriating for me, as I generally don't interchange between both languages simultaneously. Is it possible to have Urdu separately from the English keyboard? Or is my only option to switch to another app? -
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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Keyboard crashes (with Slack) Answered
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2 comments
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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The cursor jumps backwards in my text from time to time Answered
1 vote
4 comments
Often, when typing a post, the point of typing is mysteriously moved backwards in text by a few words or a couple of sentences and I'll find the last 3 - 5 words I've typed are showing up in the middle of some previous text for no apparent reason. It is very frustrating to have to go back and delete perfectly well-written text from the middle of another sentence and then retype that text. It is frustrating enough for me to have sought out this forum, and if no fix is explained to me very shortly, I will update my Play Store recommendation and uninstall your keyboard app.
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Emoji key disappearing Answered
4 votes
10 comments
Hi all,For the last day or two the dedicated emoji button doesn't show on my keyboard, even though the option is turned on.The only thing I can think of that might be related is that I've subscribed to the beta version of the Google app.Keyboard theme is Carbon but switching doesn't seem to change anything.Restarting helped but after a while it's missing again.I'm using a Poco X3 Pro, running on MIUI 12.5.7.Would really love the help. -
SwiftKey too eager in splitting words in Dutch Answered
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1 comment
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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In landscape mode SwiftKey overlays input dialogs with its own white input box
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6 comments
When in portrait mod , SwiftKey functions properly, but in landscape mode it overlays the input dialog with a blinding white input box that fills the entire top of the screen. It occurs with authentication dialogs, when entering an app review in Google Play store, etc. This is quite a shock to the eyes when working in dark mode.
The problem doesn't occur with Samsung keyboard.
Devices :
- Samsung Galaxy S8+, Android 8
- Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e, Android 9
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Predictions should not move
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Who else has that obnoxious problem where they type three letters and the prediction they want pops up, then they type another letter and that prediction randomly moves to another space, so when you muscle memory tap where it just was you get the wrong word? Like so many Microsoft applications there's always some irritating feature or gap in how it works that makes it frustrating to use for literally no reason-- this is a six second bug to fix and this is the eighth or ninth time I've reported it going back to when I first started using SwiftKey in 2013. Just. Fix. It. -
请求适配安卓全键盘智能机型
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2 comments
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