Please advise how to remove the colorful trail that follows your finger each time you swipe. It's very distracting! Can that be cleared?

I am using SwitfKey for a long time, but desperatly want to switch to mostly any other keyboard software, because since years, there are two catastrophic design flaws in the app, which could be solved in minutes of programming time:

1) The optional numeric bar just shows the numbers 1 to 0, and has no second layout... why! Every keyboard on this planet has easy access to ! for example on number key 1, but not SwiftKey

2) For Germany layout, it is catastrophic to access most important keys like ö ä ü ß in SwiftKey. For example: if you hold key u, the default selection is "<" instead of "ü" ... WHY!!! This is the most annoying thing for German customers.

Please change default selection for uoa to üöä.

Give easy and fast access to !?ß. The access through . is a mess and breaks usage flaw on normal keyboards.

Give option to manipulate the key layout and change keys you want to have.

It seems in earlier versions this was an easy thing to do .

But now...I just don´t know...how? (quite unbelievable I must say)

Much as some individuals may find the 'flow through space' feature useful, I find it is often an encumbrance.

When flowing words, especially those on the bottom row, any accidental overshoot downwards automatically inserts a space, forcing a correction. Is it possible to include a toggle to disable this feature?
Thanks.

Is there any way, like on the default iOS keyboard, to add a word, say "yt", which would automatically expand to YouTube?

How do I post regarding new features that are a must for me...
(and I guess for all)

When using a punctuation mark such as colon ":" after inserting space after a word, swiftkey automatically remove the space and connects the punctuation mark with the word.

This was not the case in older versions.
How do we get rid of this behavior?

Also, another thing is that, after any punctuation mark, swiftkey automatically inserts a space after it. In older versions it used to happen only for periods "." , commas "," and semicolons ";"

But now it happens for colon ":" as well which I don't want.

Example for both problems:

While Texting: Life is sad :(

Turns to: Life is sad: (

Please help me fix this as well.

Thank you

I'm running andriod 10 on a Pixel 3 and voice to text has become more and more erratic. It's always had seemingly random capitalization and now, as of the past few days, random punctuation. Getting to the point of being unusable? Anyone experiencing these problems?

dont you wanna Fix this Shi* ?

sync learning word with google account not working for more than month !! is there any support team behind Swiftkey ( Shi tkey )

Hello!

Until recently I have been able to easily switch between handwriting and pinyin when using the chinese(Tw) keyboard. By long pressing the "numbers and symbols" - button(bottom left) swiftkey would change between the layouts.

This has been very convenient for me as I'm trying to learn Chinese and being able to use both handwriting and pinyin makes the practice easier for me.

This feature seems to be gone now(I'm not able to do it anymore at least). Is it any means to get it back?

I really like swiftkey and I've used it for years, but things like this bug me: What possible reason would SwK ask me for access to my location? How is that in any way a benefit to me? Just wondering how they justify such a request. 

I've got a new phone and used the cloud backup feature to migrate Swiftkey to the new phone.

My stats have been copied over, but not my preferences, including the clipboard shortcuts.

Is there any way to fix this?

I'm moving from Android 7 to 8, using Google for the backup storage. 

Thanks.

On most keyboards when you hold the A button you can find the Æ character in the special characters list, but in Swiftkey it's missing, at least in the italian language

Suggestion. I am on Android not sure if all versions are the same or not.

But i like to use the question mark a bit and unfortunately your long press (on the period/dot) highlights the period first, which is a bit counter productive.

Can you pretty please make the question mark the first option when the long press menu comes up. Or better yet move it to a single option long press maybe.?

Best keyboard out there otherwise, thanks very much.

I recently have found that lots of new colours and options are available for this app. I just wish I could fine tune it to my taste. I love the colours that there are but I hate not having borders around my keys, therefore is there any chance that this could become available as an option so we could adjust the layout and look to our own specific taste. Maybe shadows of keys and different text types, even down to the colour of the chars? Just a thought..... But as it stands 9.5/10 for swiftkey for sure...

Hi,

I've just changed from Windows Phone to Android and installed the Swiftkey keyboard.

On Windows Phone, if I wanted to switch a text or a whole message to upper or lower cases, I just selected all the text or the specific word and pressed the up arrow (that handles upper or lower) and it was converted. I checked that on Android I can convert the word pressing space after it. Can you please add this funcionality to it? It's a better and fast way to do it...

Does the SwiftKey backup system also back up my clipboard pinned snippets?

I switched over to SwiftKey since I could see my text boxes but I'm not use to the current layout of the keyboard. I prefer to have my symbols on the left and my numbers visible without tapping on their own tab. And I like to have my emoji tab right next to my space bar on the left and not have to hold down on enter/send to get them. And way to change that sorta thing on here?

Pressing the emoji icon when writing an SMS (built in function on Samsung Galaxy S6) makes the Samsung Keyboard to crash while using Swiftkey. This hasen't been a problem until the new update came out for the phone about a week ago.

You have to restart your phone, and uninstall Swiftkey to prevent the notification from popping up, you can't use the keyboard otherwise. 

I've tried other keyboard apps and some of them have the same issue.

I really love Swiftkey and I've used it for many years. Can you please come up with a fix, the problem is EXTREMLY annoying. 

Thanks!

I Wonder how i can remove the botton to dot and comma??

I just switched to a Samsung s8 from an S5. I had 29 themes on the s5. Now on the installation of the s8 I have 14. Looks like the themes I purchased can't be found to download. Including Holo😯.

In the latest beta the keyboard scaling issue has reappeared. Have also noticed that suggested words now also flow into the menu button to the left.