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I just want Swiftkey to do what I type.

Let's say I want to type: "2.5kg"
Do you know how hard it is to get that 2.5 without needing to delete extra space characters?

Same for (Dutch phrase) "Ik slaap 's avonds en 's nachts"
Why do I need extra typing to get this right? Instead the 's characters get stuck to the word left.

Swiftkey should have a "do what client types, don't get creative" mode.

Many greetings from Brussels.

Has anyone had an issue of the left prediction bar showing a correctly spelled word, but with a 6 added to the end of it?  It has happened to me for almost a year and I finally got fed up and decided to ask. It started on my previous HTC and has carried over to my S7.  I tell it to forget the words often, but it just keeps happening.  At least a couple times a day.  It's always a "6", never any other number. 

Hi all,
Is there any way to prioritize language as i often type Malaysia instaallah English.
Often i disable english and only enable it When I wanted to type in english.
Thanks.

Hi,

I use 2 languages, and it is annoying when after i type a few letters and realize i am not at the language i need, i switch the language and those not yet confirmed type letters on prediction bar are gone missing.  Some other keyboards app will keep the unconfirmed typed letters when switching language and come out with new suggestion words rather than clearing them.

Apart form that, I would like to say big THANKS to SwiftKey team who finally responded to my feature request few weeks ago to add Fuzzy Pinyin support (Swiftkey Beta).  Could be the implementation stage is already at the corner when i requested, whatever it is i am so happy to have this important feature added.  This make SwiftKey to near perfect above the rest.

I want to suggest two certain changes in the japanese keyboard: The first and more important is the autocorrection bar. When you type a lot of time, sometimes the katakana will be gone, it will disappear, and you need to put katakana one by one, and it is very uncomfortable. My suggestion is to put the katakana first in the bar(and, if there is a kanji, after the kanji), because it will be easier to input it.
And the second one is only a visual change. Someone who used other apps and used a japanese keyboard surely saw a 9 buttons keyboard. Some other apps like Go Keyboard, or even the system keyboard for Windows Phone have it, and I love it, because you can put little イ without typing フィ, or something like that.
If this is the wrong place to post it, then, where I can suggest it?

I've been using Swiftkey for as long as I can remember and really like the app. But when I switched to the Oneplus 3T recently I noticed some lag when swiping the "period"-button to make either a questionmark or an exclamation mark. I've tried both the beta app and the regular one and both are the same. Does anyone notice the same thing? It works fine with all my other phones.

It's not a terrible lag, but still noticable and pretty annyoing.

Any tips for me?

I found this link https://vip.swiftkey.com/index.php?/topic/16888-swiftkey-lagging-update-64478-needs-more-info/#comment-87491 but couldn't find any more. That's the exact same issue as I have.

Hey,
Its been a long time since I have been using SwiftKey keyboard. There are numerous personalised predictions which my keyboard gives to me and i love using them, it takes my typing experience awesome. The problem now is that I have just changed my phone and in my new phone in SwiftKey, since I have started using it a day or two, there are a very low number of personalised predictions. So, is there any way by which i can copy predictions from my previous phone to the new one.? Signing in with the same account and backing up from the previous one isn't working out. Please somebody help me. I'm missing my SwiftKey typing!

Currently voice input can only be accessed by long pressing , button.

We want a dedicated voice input on the keyboard somewhere beside word predictions or somewhere else.

How to hide prediction bar on swift key keyboard

On my tablet my favorite keyboard layout is the split (thumb) view, combined with undocked mode. Thats simply perfect, because the space between the to key-halfes is free to see the real content.

The Problem is, that it always switches back to docked mode when i move it to near to the bottom.

Could we have a permanent undocked mode? Or at least make the empty space of the docked split-view transparent?

Hello! I don't know what I did but now I don't have the automatic space between words... What can I do? Please help

SwiftKey is the best. The only thing I wish I could change was the voice dictation button placement. On big phones it is hard to get to. Give me the option to place on right side if screen (like gboard).

If I type a word that starts with a capital letter, followed by another word that starts with a capital letter, SwiftKey uncapitalises the first word! I have auto-correct and auto-capitalise turned off, but it doesn't seem to make any difference!

It's incredibly annoying! How do I stop it from doing this?

I've run into a particularly annoying bug.

Let's say I have already:

One two three

And I select (highlight) three:

One two three

And then, with "three" still selected, I swipe the word "seven":

One two seven

The word is now correct but the word in the middle of the prediction panel is still "three". If I press space or type any other character it miscorrects "seven" back to "three":

One two three

This is particularly noticeable in Chrome. When I tap the URL bar while already on a page, whatever the current URL is will be pre-selected for me. So let's say I want to search for "happy cats". If I swipe "happy", I get "happy" but the middle suggestion is "I". So if I swipe or type "cats" next, it becomes: "I cats". In the past week I have run into this SO many times as it hijacks my attempts to Google in Chrome.

Hello!

Since about two months ago, I keep missing the spacebar with my right thumb and hitting. The full stop key instead. <- producing odd-looking sentences like that.

It happens probably fifty times a day. That's a lot of back-spacing! It's so much that I started to wonder why SwiftKey doesn't collect and analyse telemetry on multiple backspacing to identify what errors are repeatedly occurring.

On my phone, the space and letter keys are a very slightly lighter grey than the keyboard background, but the function keys like enter, backspace, full stop are not differentiated. Theres about 0.5cm padding on the left of the full stop key before the spacebar. I think that's why I keep hitting it instead. Could this be fixed?

Thanks so much,
Daniel

Hi
A skin that changes color on what app you are in, would be nice!

option to set a bar with shortcut text or symbols or emojis above the suggestions like in chrooma

Hi,
when typing kiss for example the Emoji 😘 shows up but sometimes I would like to put multiple of them so keeping them there as long they get pressed would be nice eh now I'll keep pressing the same spot '😘 the most important... ' instead of what I mean '😘😘😘😘😘😘😘.... '

Regards

Would it be possible to change Estonian QWERTY layout and put the letter "ö" under a separate key? It's rather crucial while writing in Estonian to use the letter separately from the letter "o" under what it currently resides.

With best regards.

I'd like SwiftKey to fix double spaces everywhere.

I often make those kind of mistakes and I like when it fixes some of the spacing, but sometimes I edit a word before punctuation and make an  extra space by mistake - that's what I need fixed.

And generally, when it detects double space where one shouldn't be, it should fix it.

Thank you.

Hello, SwiftKey is the best keyboard, but the qwerty layout has flaws, as well as all the other keyboard layouts for thumb typing.

I have made my own layout, and want to test it out on SwiftKey :). Is there any way to add my own layout into the language select screen? Maybe if I rooted my phone?

I am willing to relearn a layout, and it's really easy for me to do. I want one which allows me to be sloppy and have really good autocorrect. I can text without looking, but every time I look at my screen, I see the same errors caused by certain keys being too close.

So yeah, I made my own layout, and if it's not perfect, I have an idea for writing a program which can figure out a better layout, and I will continually test each new layout.

And yes I've tried LOADS of android keyboards and also different layouts(qwerty, colemak, dvorak, azerty, etc). Swiftkey is the best for autocorrection, and the smartest so far.

I'm currently using JBak keyboard with my own layout, but it's autocorrect is rubbish.

Why go to so much hassle? because I know it's possible to text without looking at my screen, and I like being able to look up at the world whilst texting at a fast speed, followed by a quick proof read.

In the gesture input section there are only two options: flow and gestures. I don't want to use any of them since they cause me some problems while I'm typing on my Xperia c4 device. Please add "None" option for those like me. By the way, thank you for developing such fantastic app.

I changed keyboard want my old back

Hi,

I've used SwiftKey (and SwiftKey Neural) for a few years on several devices. Recently I got hold of a Pixel C and the accompanying physical keyboard, both of which are great. 

However, I've noticed that the "..." button on the keyboard (which brings up symbols etc has no effect when the default keyboard is SwiftKey. That is with GBoard, touching "..." gives me access to all the extra keys and symbols. With Swiftkey it just acts as a Right-Alt key.

Is there a stetting anywhere in SwiftKey?

Is it something you're aware of and are working on?

Is it something you're aware of but can do nothing about due to Google having something locked down?

Any advice would be awesome, thanks. I have the beginnings of an idea in the back of my head to use IFTTT to switch to GBoard when the device sees the physical board, and back to SwiftKey when not...

I was wondering if there was any way to setup autocomplete hotkeys for use with swiftkey and a physical keyboard. 

So, recently my SwiftKey keyboard was updated. There is a devnagri script keyboard option as well as the QWERTY English that I usually use. I use a lot of Hinglish in my messages, sure, but I'm not so happy when the English keyboard simply changes the words into devnagri. If I need to I can simply shift over using the spacebar to the devnagri script keyboard. But for the script to hijack my English posts is incongruous, inconvenient, and honestly, frustrating, especially because perfectly acceptable English words are transcribed unnecessarily and SwiftKey becomes not so swift anymore. That's not fun when I have to write emails or text messages in a professional capacity.
What can I do to make this not happen anymore? Are there settings to switch the transcriptions off? Is that possible?

Hey I had an idea for your keyboard.

A custom emoji tab where we can add a select number of our favorite emoji for quick selection. SwiftKey is the top of the crop and this feature would enhance our typing capabilities even more. Thanks!

New poster. I hope this is in the correct place. Mods please advise if necessary :)

• LG V20
• Android 7.0 (Nougat)
• Swiftkey 6.5.4.26 

Twice in the past day or so, Swiftkey has suddenly minimized to just the predictions, the keyboard presumably off the bottom of the screen.

One time, I reset the phone, and that restored it. I wouldn't be here posting, but just a few minutes ago it happened again. This time I disabled and re-enabled Swiftkey and that fixed it...but if this keeps happening, I obviously will not find it worth having to do that each time.

I don't know how to reproduce this, per se. When it happens, it is that way in all apps. Both times it was initially in the AT&T default texting app, but that's probably coincidence, because it's what I use most.