Thursday 15 November 2018

How to Customize Gboard Keyboard Settings

Google develops Gboard keyboard for iOS devices such as iPhone, iPad and other products. Now, this is also available for Android. Gboard has many features that make your increase your typing speed and accuracy. It offers multilingual language support, emojis, and much more

Customizing your Gboard keyboard make it extra advance and comfortable. You can customize Gboard settings through your Gboard App as well as from device settings.

Here is how to customize Gboard keyboard settings with details about the feature,

How to edit settings of Gboard Keyboard through Gboard App

1. Open ‘App Store’.

2. Search for ‘Gboard.’

3. Tap ‘Get’ and install Gboard on your device.

4. Now, launch the Gboard app.

5. Tap ‘Keyboard settings’ to access Gboard’s keyboard settings.

6. Use the ‘Glide Typing’ switch to enable and disable this feature.

(With glide typing you can type words by continuing sliding your finger from key to key on the
keyboard).

7. Use ‘Emoji suggestions’ switch to enable or disable this feature.

(Emoji suggestions feature suggest you the type of emoji related to your typing word, ex if you type
happy it will suggest a smiley face).

8. Use ‘Auto-correction’ switch to enable and disable the auto-correction feature.

(Enabling this feature automatically changes misspelled words, and also the words that keyboard don’t recognize with dictionary word. Auto-correct will irritate you some time by changing the words that you don’t want, so be careful while typing).

9. Use ‘Auto-capitalization’ switch and turn on or off this feature.

(Auto-capitalization feature automatically capitalizes beginning the word of a sentence as well as
nouns.)

10. Use ‘Block offensive words’ switch to enable this feature.

(This feature blocks the offensive words, but it is unable to block manually typed words when the auto-correction feature is disabled).

11. Turn on ‘Character preview’ switch to see a small popup of the key that you press on the keyboard.

12. Use ‘Enable caps lock’ switch to lock the keyboard in the uppercase letter.

(You can also do this by continue pressing ‘Shift key’ on the keyboard.)

13. Use ‘Show lowercase letters’ switch to turn it on and off.

14. Toggle ‘Shortcut’ switch to enable this feature.

(This feature is useful for fast typists; it allows typists to add a period by double-tapping on ‘space’ key instead of tapping the period key).

How to edit settings of Gboard Keyboard from device Settings

1. Open ‘Settings’ of your iPhone or iPad.

2. Go to ‘General.’

3. Tap ‘Keyboards.’

4. Again, tap ‘Keyboards’ to open a list of all keyboards and set Gboard as default keyboard.

5. Return to ‘Keyboards’ settings here you can edit ‘Text replacement’ and other similar settings that
you can customize through to Gboard app.

6. Edit settings and tap ‘Save’ to finish.

Customize your keyboards settings and customize it to suit you/

Ava Williams is a Microsoft Office expert and has been working in the technical industry since 2002. As a technical expert, Ava Williams has written technical blogs, manuals, white papers, and reviews for many websites such as office.com/setup.



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