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How to remove the annoying emoji keyboard

First of all: what a great product! But there is one thing that drives me nuts: how to change languages easily. I'm aware there is a setting to disable the emoji keyboard and supposedly it should replace it with the standard globe icon, but this is not exactly true as it behaves differently.

Let's assume I'm in swiftkey (where I have EN and DE as languages). Now I want to write my mum in Spanish, how do I get Spanish keyboard? On iOS keyboard I would just hold the globe and swipe to Spanish (hold->swipe). With swiftkey I have to click once the globe which brings me to next language which is the iOS emoji. Now I have to click Abc, then hold the globe and finally I can pick Spanish. What a horrible UX (click->click->hold->swipe). I'm sorry but the ios emoji picker is so much more a delight to use, so I would like to just remove the swiftkey custom menu altogether and access any keyboard directly. Is that possible? Thanks in advance.

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    Ryan P

    Hi there,

    There are two things here

    1. With SwiftKey, if you have two languages installed, you don't need to do anything to start typing in a different language. Just start writing in that language and the predictions will switch over
    2. OR - you can go into SK Settings > language > in the language settings you'll see an option to switch the layout of one or both of your languages. If you decide to switch the layout - you can longpress on the spacebar to switch to a new layout - this can make it easier to type in that particular language as it may have special characters visible.

    Hope that helps.

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    Thanks Ryan, but as I mentioned in my post: I have *more* than 2 languages. My Swiftkey languages are DE (country I live in) and EN (language I work in). ES and FR are for friends and family, but on an average day I use them all mixed, which makes it a pain for me as SK offers no easy possibility to quickly switch between multiple languages (more than 2). Thanks anyways, will check what other options I have.

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