Customize the keyboard

Quickly access keyboard settings

When you're typing, touch & hold the comma key and drag it to to customize your Gboard settings.

Change how keyboard looks

To change the background color of your keyboard:

  1. Go to Settings > System > Languages & input > Virtual keyboard.
  2. Touch Gboard > Theme.
  3. Select a color to use as the background.
  4. Touch Apply.

To adjust the keyboard’s height for more comfortable typing:

  1. Go to Settings > System > Languages & input > Virtual keyboard.
  2. Touch Gboard > Preferences > Keyboard height.
  3. Select the height you want.

Adjust keyboard sounds

To control whether your keyboard makes sounds:

  1. Go to Settings > System > Languages & input > Virtual keyboard.
  2. Touch Gboard > Preferences.
  3. To hear sounds when you type, turn Sound on keypress on .
  4. To adjust how loud the sounds are, touch Volume on keypress.

Adjust keyboard vibration

The onscreen keyboard vibrates when you touch a key. Turn off vibration feedback if you prefer not to use it or want to improve battery life.

To adjust keyboard vibrations:

  1. Go to Settings > System > Languages & input > Virtual keyboard.
  2. Touch Gboard > Preferences.
  3. Do any of the following:

    • Turn Haptic feedback on keypress off or on.
    • If on, touch Vibration strength on keypress and move the slider.

Disable glide typing

With glide typing, you drag your finger over the letters in a word. If you want to turn this off and only use multi-touch typing:

  1. Go to Settings > System > Languages & input > Virtual keyboard.
  2. Touch Gboard > Glide typing.
  3. Turn Enable glide typing off .

Limit or turn off suggestions

  1. Go to Settings > System > Languages & input > Virtual keyboard.

  2. Touch Gboard > Text correction.
  3. Adjust settings:

    • If you don’t want predictions based on your previous word, turn Next-word suggestions off . You will only see suggestions for the current word you're typing.
    • If you don’t want ANY suggestions, turn Show suggestion strip off .
    • You can also turn off (or on) offensive word blocking and suggestions for emoji, stickers, and information from Contacts.

Turn off auto-correction

  1. Go to Settings > System > Languages & input > Virtual keyboard.
  2. Touch Gboard > Text correction.
  3. If you don’t want words corrected while you type, turn Auto-correction off .