

You can also enable your Gboard to evolve on its own by learning your usage behaviour for smarter suggestions. Just go to Gboard settings> Text correction> and turn on ‘Show Emoji Suggestions’. Recent emojis – You can also quickly access recently used Emoji in the top row of the symbol panel. Just tap the pencil icon in the bar on the left corner. The option is present under Gboard settings> Preferences> Keysĭraw emojis – You can also draw emojis with your hand to zero in on what you are searching for. This adds an emoji button which you can use to insert emojis and GIFs.

If you switch between keyboards very often, you can also turn on ‘ Show language switch key’ under Gboard settings> preferences.Īdd GIFs using Gboard – You can also replace ‘switch language key’ that we talked about earlier with a ‘switch emoji key’. You can conveniently switch between different language keyboards by long pressing the ‘Space Bar’. Go to Gboard keyboard settings> languages and select preferred keyboard from ‘Active input methods’.

Love typing in Hindi or another regional language script every now and then? Well, you can keep multiple keyboards and switch between them on the fly. Multiple Language Keyboards/ Switch Language

Just tap the ‘123’ key and then tap the ‘1234’ button to the left of Space par to expand a number pad. Using number pad – for times when you need to input long Numeric values (say, a win pin code or PNR number), a number pad can come in handy. Gboard settings> Preferences> and toggle on ‘Number Row’ option under Keys.Īdding fractions – long press any number to get predictive suggestions for fractions You can add a number row on top as follows: – You can also tap the Google Icon and then choose the select option in the ‘search and more row’ and use arrow keys to move the cursor or to select text.Īdding number row: We also prefer to have a number key on our keyboard, simply because it’s more convenient than switching to and fro between the QWERTY keyboard and the number pad. To directly delete text, just swipe left on the GBoard starting from the backspace key. – You can simply swipe Left or right on the space bar to move the cursor. Next time, you can just type ‘add’ and pick the entire address from the suggestion bar. You can also access settings menu directly by long-pressing comma key.įor instance, you can type your address and choose ‘add’ as a shortcut. Go to GBoard Settings > Dictionary>Personal dictionary> Select keyboard and tap on ‘+’ to add custom phrase and shortcuts. The text that you use quite often, like your address, contact number or email – can be stored and summoned with the help of simple shortcuts whenever required. There are also icons for Voice input and to directly access keyboard settings at the far right end. Translate – Or you could directly translate text from the GBoard itself.
