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

You can display a number row at the top of the keyboard in supported layouts by toggling on Show Number Row.

Arrow Keys

You can display a set of four arrow keys (up, down, right, and left) by toggling on Show Arrow Keys.

Symbol Hints

You can display the symbols that are accessed by long-pressing certain keys on the top right of each key by going to Long-Press Keys & Spacebar and toggling on Show hints.

Layout of Long-Press Keys

You can change the layout of long-press keys by going to Long-Press Keys & Spacebar and switching around the order of said keys.

You can change the amount of time it takes for a key to be pressed to be considered a long-press by going to Long-Press Keys & Spacebar -> Long Press Duration and dragging the slider to your desired number of milliseconds.

Backspace Behavior

You can change what happens when you hold or swipe the backspace key—to either delete single characters or delete entire words—by going to Long-Press Keys & Spacebar -> Backspace Behavior when holding/swiping.

Spacebar Behavior

You can change what happens when you long-press or swipe the spacebar key—to either make swipe move the cursor and long-press switch languages, swipe switch languages and long-press move the cursor, or both swipe and long-press only move the cursor—by going to Long-Press Keys & Spacebar -> Spacebar Behavior.

Action and Suggestions Bar

You can show the bar that contains action shortcuts and word suggestions by toggling on Show action/suggestions bar.

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).