Microsoft SwiftKey Android Support Forums

Hi. I'm using arrows keys on my keyboard but is often for me that instead of space bar I'm pressing arrow key and it make me a lot of mistakes. Can you add possibility to change arrow keys to total top position above number keys?

Hello,

I wish I have the opportunity to use the symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), and the symbols that indicate the "quantity" in Latin words (long and short), on all the vowels. I'm a student of linguistics and I think it could help a lot of people. 

Best Regards

Manuel De Sio, student of Linguistics

For my phone (like a Samsung) with a AMOLED screen, I would like a completely black theme with the primary and secondary keyboard letters and symbols white. To save battery and also be functional.

I updated my app and there is a change I do not like. It used to be that you would long press the enter key to get the Emoji menu.

On pages like Facebook and Reddit, whenever I hit the enter key it immediately brings up the Emojis. I have to long press to hit enter.

It is not doing it here. When I hit enter it enters the new line. It seems to be limited to social media. The only other option I have seen is to have a dedicated Emoji key and then it makes other buttons more narrow and when I go to hit the dedicated comma button, it accidentally hits the dedicated emoji button.

I am fine with not having emojis at all. Is there a way to stop it from doing this on social media? It never did before. I love SwiftKey and I've use it since it was a paid app. I'm not liking this, though.

A search box for the emojis would be helpful. would save having to scroll through every single one to find what you're looking for

I love that SwiftKey Beta finally have released Photo Themes, and given users a possibility to design your own custom theme!!!

BUT it needs the possibility to deside the COLOR OF THE FONT. Without it it's not very usefull. It would also be good if you add a way to determend how transparent the photo theme is.

Hello, my name is Jasmin... And i have a few suggestions rather than questions. I would like swift key to make the space bar bigger and the arrow keys smaller because when i hit space it always hits the arrow... And i would like to have a choice weather or not i want to space after a period... It automatically does it and its a hugh pain trying to type web pages if it always spaces

No letters on the keyboard. Just blank. Can't do anything.

I do not require the feature and it is often a hindrance.

I have about 40 clipboard items pinned on one android device. Is there an easy way to get these on my other android devices so that I don't have to manually enter them all over again? Thanks.

I just switched from the Galaxy S10+ to the Note 10+ and my dictionary won't sync. I see all my words are in the cloud when I look at my account data. When I force a sync it says last synced a minute ago. This is the first time this has happened when I've switched phones. I've cleared the cache, forced sync, uninstalled, reinstalled, force sync and nothing has worked. Is this a bug or am I running into some issues? 

Hello,

I am trying to install SK for the first time on my daughter's phone. When I try to connect/create SK account, it shows me a new window for me to choose Google account or Microsoft account.

I am trying to use Google account, a popup ask me to choose the G account, I do so and then nothing happens and the window asking me to choose G account or Microsoft is still here....

Phone : Galaxy A5 2017

Android : V 8.0.0

SK : 7.3.2.19

Please help me.

I use textra for messaging. It changes from dark to light mode. It would be nice if the keyboard did the same.

Please provide an option to turn off transliteration in Hindi because we don't always need it. Also transliteration causes huge delay when you type using swipe. When I turn off Hindi and then use swipe to type then there is no delay.

Why does a space appear before a semicolon?

Hi, I had to reinstall the SwiftKey application again on my phone. Before that I made a synchronization of my saved words. After logging in to the SwiftKey account via the website, all my saved words are still on the server. The problem is that the same account is logged in to the application on an Android phone, but I can't to download my saved words back to my phone. I'm mad at it because my dictionary has several thousand words that I need to re-enter now. Any idea how to solve it?

typing web addresses into the address bar of the browser always inserts an auto space after hitting the dot key. Thus I always have to correct by using backspace and type again. 

Same problem with other situations, where I do not automatically need an auto space after the dot, e. g., when typing mail addresses. 

there a way ariund it and have a setting option, allowing to deactivate auto spaces after a dot? 

Hi
The feature that I find the most annoying, and would like the option to turn off, is the auto move of the cursor to the end of the word. When I want to insert/correct a character, I press on the location within the word, and the cursor moves to the end of the word! I have all the arrow keys displayed at the bottom of the keyboard, so pressing on the location & adjusting with the arrow keys is super fast. Except the cursor jumps to the end of the word! I think this feature was added a couple of years ago. It still gets in the way. I haven't found a fast workaround, so an option to turn it off would be much appreciated.

How can I get more predictive suggestions than the default 3? In the Czech language quite a lot of words are longer and differ in one or two letters at the end (such as překrásný, překrásná, překrásní, překrásně, překrásné, překrásno, překrásnou,...). The prediction then is useless if I anyway need to type the whole word. In the old times my Nokia was able to expand for me the whole list of other similar words to choose from.

Every time I re-install swiftkey on same device or install to a new android device my predicted words  dissapeared! Even Backup/restore was ON on previous device and on the new device also, triggered sync many times on both devices!

This happened the second time for me between different devices, word backup never worked. What the cloud backup is for then? What is the purpose?

Before you say I turned off backup, my data exists in the cloud at data.swiftkey.com, but does not synced to any of new devices: 

I've been using SwiftKey for several years with no issues at all, and have obviously built up quite a large personal dictionary. After factory resetting my Galaxy S8+ on Android 9.0, and re-installing SwiftKey, predictions from my personal dictionary so not come up anymore. I have tried all the steps on the troubleshooting guides on this website and have tried all the steps from other similar posts with no success. Are there any other steps I can try? This app has been so essential to me for many many years now and I can't even imagine losing all of the data that has been built up throughout the years.

How about adding an option to toggle auto space on/off after punctuation.

It's a pain having to backspace to remove an unwanted space.

Hello there,

Add this function of cut copy paste and select-all by sliding the finger from numberkey to X, C, V and A respectively.

This would be really really helpful and would be the best update till date that saves a lot of time of the user.

Release the updates as soon as possible.

Thank you.

I would like SwiftKey to support gifs

How do I get portrait keyboard or t9 option

I lost my personal data. Can I import the zip filé downloaded on menu "view data" on my account?

Is there any way to change the voice to text engine in Android? I would prefer to use Cortana, since I find Cortana's accuracy very good, but there does not seem to be a way to do it.

Hello Swiftkey:

A feature that I really miss from other keyboards (such as Gboard) is the ability to search emojis. I really love this feature and I think its better than emoji prediction. Please add this is a close future update!

Yes, the lack of this feature would be enough to make me switch keyboards, but I really like Swiftkey.

Thanks

I use SwiftKey (the paid version) with English and my native language, Malayalam. My language settings are as in the screenshot below.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/G7THEhE2X6ryYPwR2

My phone is primarily for work use, so most of my keypad usage is to type out professional emails, Slack messages, Asana updates etc. and the only acceptable language for such communications is English. I use Malayalam occasionally on certain WhatsApp groups; where I know all members are capable of reading and understanding the language. In earlier versions of SwiftKey switching between these was quick and easy via the spacebar, and the product worked very well for my requirements.

But of late, I see that SwiftKey is predicting words in Malayalam when I'm typing in English and worse still, these words are offered as the middle prediction:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/9jIOWpgVKs3wEcgd2

https://photos.app.goo.gl/52bZ7E3WMF7jK3if1

This is incredibly annoying; and I have searched all over the place - but it seems like there is no way to disable this behaviour. At the moment I have removed Malayalam from SwiftKey completely because this "feature" is interfering in my work. My questions:

1. Is it true that I cannot disable this feature?

2. Is there a way I can downgrade to a version of SwiftKey that did not have this feature?

3. Is there any plans for adding a configuration option to disable this feature? If yes when will that come out?

Thanks.