Microsoft SwiftKey Android Support Forums

I would like to understand what the difference are between the Duo Themes and the other themes so that I might explain them. 

Surface Duo Adaptive

Surface Duo Light

Surface Duo Dark

Those vs each other And any of the other themes. What is duo specific about them? Are the other themes acceptable and on the Duo? I've used the other themes, but trying to understand.

Dale

For some stupid reason if you try to change the things you're typing via hitting a prediction, like I type thrfe but meant three and hit three in the prediction bar to replace thrfe, it will leave the word thrfe's letters (any letters to the right of the cursor) leftover. So "three" becomes "three rfe". Um what sense does it make to leave letters of a word I want to REPLACE, as in get rid of these word, why would I want any of its letters to remain when I'm trying to get rid of it? Clearly I want to replace the entire word! Why would I ever in 9 million years need to leave ANY letters of a word I'm REPLACING? The chances are 0.00001%! Thrfe becomes three e. I will never need that e, ever. I use swipe typing so that e will get in the way. Swipe typing means I don't type 1 letter at a time, the entire word I swipe gets inputted all at once so that e will never be able to be used. I hate how stupid a rule you guys made to not let us put the cursor in the middle or beginning of the word, it can only go at the very end. Otherwise you'll have a bunch of unnecessary letters stamped in the middle of your sentences. What the heck sense does that make?

Please let us pit the cursor anywhere on the word to be able to use the prediction bar and change the word. Do you have any idea how hard it is to move a cursor to an exact spot (end of word) on a tiny phone? It's so hard that I have to use a keyboard with arrows to move cursors bc touchscreen cursor movement slows you down running it back and firth until it finely lands right where you need it, like using a mouse on super high suited is impossible to land it somewhere precise. I don't care what your reason is, maybe you did this cursor-at-end-of-word system for another feature to work, but that other feature is not nearly as important as this. Your other feature is causing huge probs leaving mismatched letters randomly in sentences. Everyone knows you don't implement a system if it's going to cause malfunctioning somewhere else. This is a malfunction, you can't ask people to place it at the end & suddenly the malfunction stops, no. The cursor goes anywhere in the word to replace that word and that is how all prediction typing works, especially since it's hard to move cursors precisely on phones.Please fix this asap, thanks.

Please add ≤ (less than or equal to) and ≥ (greater than or equal to).

For example, they can be placed in a popup menu after a long touch on < and > symbols.

Hi, is there a way to add a barcode scanner to the tools menu?

I'm a long time swype user. Then when they killed it I moved to gboard. Now I'm giving swiftkey a go, I'm in finding it awkward. With swype it was advised to swype full sentences and then go back and edit. Is there a shortcut to capitalise a word. In gboard you can highlight the word and cycle with the shift key, capitalise the first letter, capitalise all letters and all lower case. Is there a way to do this on swiftkey?

I'm running the latest SwiftKey on my Android 10 device (OnePlus 7Pro - GM-1917 - running OOS 10.3.3). It has been working fine for months, but recently, an error has started occurring. I also am getting this same error on the latest SwiftKey beta.

With the keyboard open, if I click on the three dots on the upper right in order to get to the settings, the keyboard disappears, and I just get a blank window containing the following message: "Unlock your device to view".

My device is not "locked" in any way. All other apps work fine.

This never used to happen. I only started noticing it within the past couple days.

Now, when I go into my Android settings, select SwiftKey, and try to select a different keyboard layout, I get the same error instead of seeing a layout to click on.

It seems like whenever SwiftKey is trying to display some sort of dialog within an area on the screen, this error occurs.

Does anyone know what could be causing this and how to fix it?

Thank you in advance.

Hi,
I have data synced with one account, I have changed my primary email address and want to have same data that was backed up/synced with the previous account on the new account. I don't see any option to do that, is there anyway that I maybe missing?

On my Swiftkey main keyboard, I can see the special characters above the main keys. My friend just installed Swiftkey, and the special characters don't show up. If you hold down the main key, the special characters show, but who can remember where each special character is hiding? I have checked all settings, and don't find anything about turning special characters on and off. Help please!