Microsoft SwiftKey Android Support Forums

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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.

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I would love to have bitmoji support baked in as an attachment, the same way gifs are. Snapchat even recognizes if you're talking to a user who has it and puts your bitmojis together.

How can I turn off the feature which adds a space after every predicted word I select, or punctuation mark? It should only insert a space if I then decide to add another word. Having to delete excess spaces at the ends of things, or sometimes after the "#" in a hash tag, is really getting old quickly.

I like the flow and I like gestures. Gestures have an option to delete by swiping to the left ⬅, and to hide keyboard by sweeping down ⬇, but I'd like to see a feature where we could move pointer, just by sliding our finger on the keyboard.
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 This is really starting to annoy me. Can anyone suggest a particular keyboard that avoids this problem?

like many other mobile. device users I find myself typing the period by. mistake way too easily (ex: twice in this sentence and same in the title). any. configuration. option I could use to help prevent this? if not, nay chance you could add a feature to mitigate this. I love swiftkey!

Hi, please remove the bing search from top bar. 

I don't want to search in a keyboard app, it is very annoying, feels like ad for your other products. At least let the user decide as an option.

Thx. 

Hi,

Official Lithuanian keyboard standard has letters ĄČĘĖĮŠŲŪŽ on the number row for quick access. While numbers can be accessed by long pressing LT letters, because we use LT letters much more often (almost in every word) compared to numbers.

Current Swiftkey Lithuanian layout has LT letters accessible only by long pressing (to get ą we need to long press a). And this is painfully slow to type.

Here's an example of good implementation https://imgur.com/u28aA28

Please add the correct layout for our language.

Thanks.

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).

I have been using SwiftKey since I first switched to Android about five years ago I do believe the SwiftKey is the best keyboard for Android. One problem I always have had is I constantly go to hit the spacebar and I enter a "." {period} I believe it would be great if I could make the space bar either larger or remove the punctuation key next to the space bar all together. It seems no matter how hard I try if I am typing fast I can't seem to hit that space bar without hitting the period at least once every 25 words. It would be great if even there were certain skins that maybe changed the size of the space bar or remove certain keys. All the other keys I hit by mistake autocorrect takes care of. I still believe screen responsiveness is a lot better on iOS than Android so I don't believe this is really a SwiftKey issue or my typing but SwiftKey does help the shortcomings of this android app issue.

Currently using latest beta.  I am a technical / computer person and therefore my writing vocabulary often includes things with period/dots in them that are not words (i.e.  e.g.  192.168.1.1 www.vcu.edu and so-on).  The constant forced auto-insertion of a space when I am trying to use a period as a dot, not as punctuation, is driving me crazy and often forces mangled/incorrect emails, texts, etc.  I thought turning on the option to insert a period by double-tapping the space bar would turn that off - it did not.

I seem to recall in a previous version of Swiftkey there was the ability to turn off the dot/period from forcing a space after it.

I think when I tried another keyboard (GBoard?) it did not do that.  However, I am used to the way Swiftkey works and would hate to switch to something else....

Hi  just upgraded my tablet and no Holo. It's bar far the best KB IMHO  

Please bring back Holo  

Hi,

Would it be possible to choose where the arrow keys row is (top/bottom/middle/left/right)? Currently they can only be on the bottom (regular layout) or in the middle (thumb layout) but both of these options are very inconvenient, as arrows get pressed all the time by mistake. For example, I constantly press arrows when intending to press Space and it drives me nuts. On the other hand, I like using the arrow keys. To me, the solution would be just to have the arrow keys on top, so that I never press them by mistake.

It would be quite useful, if there were a way to search for emojis, when the Emoji button has been pressed.

It should be kind of like how Gboard does it, where you switch to Emoji mode and then you can search (eg. you type "cat" and see the cat emoji 🐈).

This is a feature request for the SwitfKey Android keyboard; I cannot use Swiftmoji, as it is english only and not available in Switzerland.

How can I disable the multilingual prediction feature (bug).

It is unwanted, uncalled fore, unnecessary, useless, counterproductive, counter-intuitive, and annoying.

Otherwise your app is awesome, until the next update (which hopefully will get rid of this feature) I will be switching to another keyboard, which is a shame.

Hi,

I'm struggling here to transfer from my Samsung 6 to the new Samsung 8 with all my predictions from the old phone.  First I did a backup sync on my old phone, and then did a backup sync on my new S8.  Nothing happened. Do I need to delete the app on my old phone?  Dose anyone have an answer.

I will say that the tech support is very weak in regards to the response time, and information.  I'm surprised being a Microsoft owned product  that they don't offer better support as I have been waiting more than three days for my answer.

Thanks for your response

On 7.0.7.26. If I left the emoji panel on the recents tab, it will open the recents tab next time.

However, if I left the emoji panel on other tabs (e.g. smileys & people, animals & nature, etc), opening the emoji panel will default to the predictions tab again. 

Just because it's intended behavior doesn't mean it's not terrible. Please undo this and just make the emoji panel open to whatever tab we were at last.

With the lastest update came a big issue for me. When i want to add smiley i need to choose category first, because it shows recent sent smileys first. I dont know where smileys are actually posited so its completely unuseful. I want to set default category to usual smiley faces as it was before, but i cant. Thats really bad. I need to do one press more every time.

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

I have a s6 which has just updated to Android version 7. I have swiftkey set as my default keyboard and it works fine. However, when I go to type a text message, if I hit the emoji icon on the one line entry field, I get the massage "samsung keyboard has stopped working", even though its set to default and I can see the swiftkey keyboard. I have to disable swiftkey and set back to Samsung in order for it to work again. Any ideas?

 I would like to know if it is possible to see my personal dictionary. I want to see all the learned words so that I can delete the ones that don't want. Thank you

Currently voice input can only be accessed by long pressing , button.

We want a dedicated voice input on the keyboard somewhere beside word predictions or somewhere else.

Hi. After my unit was updated to Android P, when Swift keyboard is activated, the navigation bar (bottom) turns white, despite having the dark theme setted in Android. This doesn't happen with Gboard. I didn't have this issue with android 8. Am I missing a particular setting?

It would be really awesome to have Bitmoji integrated with SwiftKey. I've been vying for this feature suggestion for a while. It's a really great feature. Hope Microsoft will consider it in the future. Thanks for listening.

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?

I use SwiftKey for years now and I've got rid of most of the weird suggestions now, but it took extremely long and I had to remove lots of words every day for many years. And still I sometimes get suggestions like
"gaucho Hagan Hitchens Cecil Barco barstool Megan yap naval brouhaha..."
that nobody needs. And that after removing thousands of words from the dictionary.
I know that the dictionary must be somewhere in SwiftKey's app data, since it has to be saved offline somewhere. But normal users can't see/edit some binary file in a protected folder, so my suggestion is:
Please make the list of words that are currently in the dictionary available to edit in some form, maybe as a text file (although I doubt it could be opened with the RAM of a phone), maybe as a list with checkboxes to delete many entries at once, maybe in another form.

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.

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".