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?
Whatever your opinion, we will take all feedback seriously.
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Matt - SwiftKey Community Lead
Ask the community your SwiftKey for Android related questions
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SwiftKey Q&A: Week 1 - Cursor Control Kalıcı Olarak Yerleştirildi Öne Çıkarılanlar
4 oy
23 yorum
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How to submit a Feature Request And/Or Ask a Question Kalıcı Olarak Yerleştirildi
10 oy
43 yorum
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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[Feature Request] Bitmoji
149 oy
58 yorum
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.
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[Feature Request] Turn off auto spaces
139 oy
156 yorum
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.
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[Feature Request] Move Cursor with Gestures Yanıtlandı
107 oy
107 yorum
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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Keep hitting full stop (period) instead of space Planlandı
100 oy
196 yorum
This is really starting to annoy me. Can anyone suggest a particular keyboard that avoids this problem?
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period too easy to. type by. mistake
50 oy
73 yorum
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!
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Please remove bing search from top bar
44 oy
47 yorum
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.
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Please add the correct Lithuanian QWERTY keyboard layout
40 oy
7 yorum
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.
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Voice button placement
39 oy
69 yorum
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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Stop period/dot from forcing a space after it
37 oy
36 yorum
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....
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[Feature Request] Remove the period next to the space bar
35 oy
38 yorum
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.
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Emoji search (as in Gboard)
30 oy
33 yorum
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.
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Bitmoji
28 oy
13 yorum
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.
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Disable flow AND gesture.
28 oy
33 yorum
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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Don't add a space after a dot/period
27 oy
15 yorum
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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Old Phone to New Phone Android Yanıtlandı
27 oy
63 yorum
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
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[Main thread] Missing themes: Nickel, Cobalt, Dusk, Regal, Berry, Sky, Ice, Fuchsia, Holo, Dark, Forest, Light, Neon and Pumpkin Tamamlandı
26 oy
214 yorum
Hi just upgraded my tablet and no Holo. It's bar far the best KB IMHO
Please bring back Holo
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[Feature Request] Arrow Keys row on top (or customizable)
26 oy
19 yorum
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.
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How can I disable multilingual predictions? Yanıtlandı
24 oy
53 yorum
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.
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Emoji panel should open at the last used tab (don't force the predictions tab on me)
23 oy
67 yorum
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.
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How do I remove the prediction bar from SwiftKey? [You can't] Yanıtlandı
23 oy
94 yorum
I do not want any suggestions. please tell me how to remove these?
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Voice typing problems with latest beta
22 oy
22 yorum
There's a new beta to the SwiftKey keyboard and they really messed up the voice typing functionality. The second you take a breath the recording of your voice and therefore the dictation stops. So when you're writing something you're constantly hitting the dictation button. We need to be able to set the length of delay before dictation stops or override whatever is making things stop. -
[Fixed in 7.0.2] Emoji opening up to prediction panel is not what I like Tamamlandı
22 oy
58 yorum
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.
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Swiftkey emoji icon causes samsung keyboard to crash
21 oy
38 yorum
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?
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Undo and redo Yanıtlandı
21 oy
18 yorum
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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[Feature Request] Add a dedicated Voice input/mic button
21 oy
11 yorum
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.
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[Feature Request] AMOLED Black Theme
20 oy
10 yorum
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.
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White Navigation Bar with Dark Theme Tamamlandı
19 oy
26 yorum
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?
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IPA symbols
19 oy
10 yorum
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