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?
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Ask the community your SwiftKey for Android related questions
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SwiftKey Q&A: Week 1 - Cursor Control Afixado Em destaque
-2 votos
5 comentários
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How to submit a Feature Request And/Or Ask a Question Afixado
10 votos
32 comentários
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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Can't see spacebar in dark mode Respondida
0 votos
1 comentário
I'm in dark mode on my smartphone and have MSSK Keyboard 'Feather Dark Red'. I can't see the spacebar because it's all black. Like to make the word on the spacebar, SwiftKey, also in Red. Or make one side of the spacebar red, I prefer under. -
after lastest updated. it's can't autucorrect by words but all sentence. Respondida
0 votos
1 comentário
after lastest updated. it's can't autucorrect by words but all sentence. before that I'm very happy with SwiftKey because there's correct me word by word. but now there's chance or I can't find the old ways. there can't correct my words anymore. so can you help me pls. -
How to get more than 5 languages Respondida
1 voto
16 comentários
Hi there!
Is there anything I can do to add more than 5 languages? While I can add more to my list, I cannot activate more than 5 at any given time.
It is also quite a nuisance that you cannot instruct SwiftKey to restrict suggestions to a single language. If languages share the same fundamental layout principles, auto suggestions (auto-correct) will consider several languages at once which can make life quite hard.
For instance, German, French, English (UK) and Dutch will be "running" simultaneously, sometimes producing ridiculous suggestions.Cheers,
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How to completely disable personal dictionary popup ? Respondida
0 votos
1 comentário
I've OPPO A52 and everytime I a typo it gives me a red line under it and when I click on it it shows a popup of suggested words from my personal dictinary
How can I disable spellcheck and the popup completely??
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Undo and redo Respondida
13 votos
12 comentários
Why the keyboard not have undo and redo the text.
Pls if this characters in SwiftKey. Pls let us now about it if not then why?
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Can't sign in Respondida
0 votos
1 comentário
Long-time user. Last night I got an error saying that I needed to sign in. I can't remember if I was signed in with my Microsoft account or Google account, but I can't sign in with either. "There seems to have been an unexpected problem, please try again in a moment." I've deleted and reinstalled the app. Argh.
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Disable flow AND gesture.
21 votos
19 comentários
Could it be possible to add a option to disable gesture input altogether?
I do not like using flow as it makes me type slower, so I put it in gesture and because of that, sometimes deletes words or lowers the keyboard which is very annoying.
I am just wanting you to add a option to disable it entirely. I know I would use it, and there has someone else out there too!- Joe
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Switching between Languages Respondida
6 votos
39 comentários
Is there any shortcut to Switch Between Languages? Every time I have to go to settings to select required Language. Very Lengthy Process.
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Back up my setting to new S20 phone Respondida
0 votos
1 comentário
I bought a new S20. I transferred all applications from old S8 to the new device. Unfortunately, my data and typing behaviour are not working in the new devise. What can I do to restore it? Please gelp -
Swipe left to delete gesture not working everytime Respondida
1 voto
9 comentários
Swiping left to delete gesture isn't triggering consistently (I'm getting 3/10 successful gestures).
I'm observing this using a Pixel 5 with SwiftKey 7.6.6.11 (tried the beta as well which had the same problem too). Also been able to reproduce this in a Pixel 3a and Xiaomi Poco X3.
Link to video reproducing the problem: https://youtu.be/pALNMFL-NvE
Related posts with the same unaddressed problem:
- https://support.swiftkey.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360047987532-swipe-to-delete-not-working-but-swipe-down-is-working
- https://support.swiftkey.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/115004291069-Do-Swipe-to-delete-really-work-
- https://support.swiftkey.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360068118632-Not-being-able-to-use-swipe-back-from-left-right-gesture-anymore-on-Oneplus-6T
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Can't Make Keyboard as big as before`
0 votos
1 comentário
I've been using Swiftkey since it was first introduced. I've loved the keyboard the entire time. However, recently, after accidentally having my phone wipe itself because I forgot my PIN. Yeah, I'm a dumb dumb. After reinstalling everything and going through and setting up Swiftkey again, I can no longer make the keyboard as big as it was before. The largest setting is now only about a third of the screen when just minutes before the largest size took up half my screen. The keys were nice and big and I loved it.
Is this something that was grandfathered in because I had such early versions of the app? Is there something I am missing? The largest size is quite terrible now.
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Swiping left to delete works poorly Respondida
0 votos
3 comentários
Hello, SwiftKey keyboard in normal gesture mode allows to delete words with swiping to the left. This works on poco X3 only in approx. 20 percent of the cases as it always needs several tries. My assumption is that it has to do with the display sensivity. It's the same issue on a second poco X3 which I have as well. Regards -
Symbol entry adds spaces wrongly Respondida
0 votos
14 comentários
There is ZERO reason for a space to be inserted before a colon. Maybe some symbols are ok with an inserted space but never that one. I spend a lot of effort removing spaces added before dashes as well. This has been a problem for YEARS and I would like an explanation as to why you would insert spaces that have to be removed and why you haven't corrected this. I assure you, there is no justification for this keyboard behavior -- it would be much better for users to have to enter the spaces they want before symbols than to remove the ones they don't -- so please make a fix. -
«Correct quotation marks» in Scandinavian missing since forever. Respondida
0 votos
1 comentário
They have as far as I know never been included in SwiftKey.
They look like this « » and ought to be accessible from some special keys (by long-press).
Thank you.
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Voice button placement
36 votos
66 comentários
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).
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I or i
0 votos
1 comentário
I have Danish and English language installed and everytime I write "i" is the middle word on my keyboard "I" (capital letter). How do I change this, so "i" is the preferred middle letter on the keyboard? -
Can SwiftKey add more emoji? Respondida
-6 votos
10 comentários
How do I add more Emoji? I was hoping to have to add another app with more emoji
Many thanks Ron -
Randomly Inserting Qs Respondida
0 votos
3 comentários
My keyboard keeps randomly Inserting qs into my words. I tried adjusting the size further and furter right thinking the skin below my finger was pressing the q but now there's a sizeable gap and its still randomly throwing qs in here and really pissing me off -
Voice-to-Text poor functionality on Galaxy S20
0 votos
1 comentário
Not sure if this is a SwiftKey problem or a Messages problem or a Google problem but here it goes.......
I just got this Galaxy S20. On my previous phone (Galaxy S9), when I hit the little "microphone" button on my SwiftKey keyboard to do voice to text when using the Messages App for texting, I would simply start talking and the words I was creating by voice would populate the text field in Messages. I could easily see the words as I spoke. After I was done taking, I'd just hit the send button and I was good to go.
With this S20, when I hit the little microphone button on SwiftKey, a window pops up. It is super annoying for a few reasons. One, that stupid grey box that says "Your audio Will be sent....." blocks the first several words that I am speaking, so I can't see that the text to words is translating correctly. Second, if I stop talking for around a second, the voice to text assumes I'm done speaking and closes, preventing me from adding more words if I hesitate to complete a thought. Third and worst of all, after I'm done talking the words I just spoke don't transfer to the text field in Messages. If I tap the empty text field in messages, SOMETIMES the words I just spoke suddenly appear in the text field- maybe 50% of the time. Supper annoying as half the time I have to repeat the whole voice-to-text process or revert to typing.
On my S9, when I hit the microphone button, I got a different pop-up that didn't block my words as they were spoken, and my words simply transferred directly to the text field in Messages, where I could clearly see them and simply hit "send" when done speaking.
When I use Facebook Messenger and do voice-to-text, I still get the pop up box with the annoying grey "Your audio will be sent......" blocking my words, but when I'm done speaking, at least my words transfer into the empty text box automatically and edit/send as required.Anyone else having this problem? I'd post the pictures of the pop up windows but I don't see a way to do that with this forum.
Thanks!
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Don't add a space after a dot/period
17 votos
6 comentários
Please deactivate automatic spacing after typing a dot, or add an option to NOT insert a space (" ") after typing a dot/period ("."). It is very annoying, as the dot is a common character in any text field or text area (think input fields and text editors, not just web addresses, code editors and alike).
Although this issue has been reported several times, there's still no reaction from SwiftKey/Microsoft for SEVERAL YEARS. Maybe the issue is not tracked anymore as it is associated with a "permanently deleted user".
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Haptic Feedback broken since update Respondida
0 votos
2 comentários
Hello everyone, I updated my Swiftkey to version 7.6.9.7 and since then I do not have the standard android haptic feedback on my keystrokes anymore.
I tried to enable it via the settings in swiftkey, but only the swiftkeys own haptic feedback is working and I don't want to use those.
Using the setting "standard android vibration" doesn't do anything anymore. I also tried to restart the phone in case of a bug.
The system vibration via the samsung settings is enabled for all keyboards.My android version is Android 10 with the latest security patch update from December.
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Can't import my account, data, typing behavior, theme, etc. from old phone! Respondida
1 voto
2 comentários
Problem: THREE different account IDs! I can't determine how to log into my old SwiftKey Account on my new Android phone!
Here is the problem: I've been logged into SwiftKey since 2017 when I got my last mobile phone. Let's say, hypothetically, the e-mail address is: abc@gmail.com
I click on that e-mail on the account settings/overview of the old phone and it shows me an account ID ending in "AAA" (made-up for simplicity's)
When I now log into the new phone with the Google Login button (I first assumed I used this option in the past but I can't remember!), I log in with my main Google account which goes by abc@gmail.com. Okay, so the Account ID shown on the new phone ends in "BBB". Obviously, since they don't match, it can't be the right account. Trying to type also appears as if it knows nothing about my typing behavior.
Okay, so that's possible. Next, I try the Microsoft button to log in, as I expected, an account has been created with that abc@gmail.com username, but I log into outlook to check on it and set a password. Here, the account ID is yet another and ends: in "CCC".
I'm running out of ideas. What other way could I have used in the past to login/create my account on SwiftKey? I would very much like to avoid losing all of my data. I don't know how to safely retrieve the cloud data from the old phone. As far as I understand it, there are no local backups or anything I could import myself. Please help.
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Automatic dark mode and themes with no key borders
2 votos
1 comentário
With Android 10 and now 11, the we have had automatic dark mode switch off for apps. When do you plan to add auto dark mode for SwiftKey? The ideal would be to allow is to choose the light and dark theme and switch between them automatically. Please also add the option to get rid of key borders in the default theme. -
Request - Automatic Dark Theme Respondida
7 votos
5 comentários
It would be nice to be able to select a darker keyboard theme that Swiftkey automatically switches to with the Android 10 System Dark theme.
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SwiftKey does not respect autocapitalize attribute in HTML input tag Respondida
4 votos
2 comentários
SwiftKey does not automatically turn off the capitalization on HTML input tags which feature autocapitalize=off. That is very annoying, many web apps use this to prevent unwanted automatic capitalization on certain inputs. SwiftKey ignores this.
See https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/04/autocapitalize for details.
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Escritura
-1 votos
1 comentário
No sé si será un error. En versiones anteriores, no sucedió. Cuando uso el teclado Swiftkey para enviar mensajes en Wahtsapp, sucede que envío un emoji y presiono la tecla enviar, regresa al teclado para su escritura. Automáticamente.
En cambio, ahora envío el emoji pero el teclado swiftkey permanece en esa posición. Y tengo que seleccionar el cuadro de diálogo para reescribir (letras). A veces tengo que presionar dos veces.
Antes era un teclado muy fluido que permitia una escritura rápida. Ahora me resulta incómodo cada vez que selecciono el teclado, cada vez que quiero escribir
GraciasSony Xperia XA1
Android 7.0
Swiftkey 6.7.1.34
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Themes synced with the Android dark mode
2 votos
1 comentário
The Android 10 have been released since a year and until now the SwiftKey (beta or not) doesn't have a real support to the dark mode. The Gboard and Samsung board, for example, adapts their colours with the system toggle. If the system is write, the keyboard is write, and if the system is dark, the keyboard also is dark. It's very good because I think the main differential of the dark mode is the automatic transmission (at night and in the day). I really hope the SwiftKey bring the dark mode synced with the system soon. -
Keys with Both Letters and Numbers Respondida
0 votos
2 comentários
Looking at the keyboard the qwerty row keys (actually ALL rows) have numbers (in the case of qwerty) or symbols on the "top" of each key. Example: I want to enter "7" using the "u" key but have yet to discover how. What have I missed? I have been using SwiftKey for 2 days now and the Number row is UNchecked, which is my preference. The Number position is Left, also my preference.