Keyboard & Typing
The menu in which you set your keyboard and typing preferences, such as the keyboard size and key behavior.
Resizing Keyboard
You can change the height and width of the keyboard through our interactive resizing interface by clicking on Resize Keyboard.
Number Row
Toggles the number row in supported layouts.
Arrow Keys
Toggles a row of four arrow keys (up, down, left, right) in supported layouts.
Symbol Hints
In Long-Press Keys & Spacebar
Toggles the hints displayed on keys to indicate additional characters that are is accessible by long-pressing the key.
Layout of Long-Press Keys
In Long-Press Keys & Spacebar
You can switch around the order of long-press keys in supported layouts. For example, you can make numbers always the first key, or you can disable symbols.
Long-Press Duration
In Long-Press Keys & Spacebar
You can change the amount of time it takes for a key to be pressed to be considered a long-press. You can either drag the slider, or tap the number to bring up the keyboard for entering a specific value.
Backspace Behavior
In Long-Press Keys & Spacebar
You can switch between deleting single characters or deleting entire words when long-pressing or swiping the backspace key.
Spacebar Behavior
In Long-Press Keys & Spacebar
You can enable swiping the spacebar to change languages here.
Action and Suggestions Bar
Disabling this will hide the suggestion bar. If you do disable this, it's recommended you also disable autocorrect and type precisely since there's no easy way to work without it.
The suggestion bar may force show in certain cases, like when inline password suggestions need to be shown.
Inline Autofill
You can disable this to avoid seeing password manager autofill. Some apps also provide smart replies; disabling this will also disable those.
Automatic Spaces
You can set the keyboard to automatically insert spaces after typing punctuation and/or inserting suggestions, or set it to not automatically insert spaces after either of those, by going to Automatic spaces mode and choosing your preferred setting.
Swipe Typing
You can enable the ability to swipe from key to key to write words by toggling on Swipe Typing.
Emoji Suggestions
You can enable the ability to suggest emojis while you’re typing by toggling on Emoji Suggestions.
Auto-Correct
You can enable the ability to automatically correct mistyped words when pressing the spacebar or typing punctuation by toggling on Auto-correction.
Auto-Capitalization
You can enable the ability to automatically capitalize the first word of each sentence by toggling on Auto-capitalization. Note: auto-capitalization only works in text fields that require it (e.g. in messaging apps) but not in fields where it doesn’t require it (e.g. in a url search bar).
Double-Space Period
You can enable the ability to insert a period followed by a space by double-tapping the spacebar by toggling on Double-space period.
Popup on Keypress
You can enable the ability to make keys pop up on each key press by toggling on Popup on keypress.
Vibrate on Keypress
You can enable the ability for your device to vibrate on each key press by toggling on Vibrate on keypress.
Vibration Intensity
You can change the level of vibration intensity of key presses by dragging the slider to your desired number of milliseconds.
Sound on Keypress
You can enable the ability to make a sound on each key press by toggling on Sound on keypress.