To change the background colour of your keyboard:

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

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

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

To control whether your keyboard makes sounds:

1. Go to Settings > Language & 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.

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 > Language & input > Virtual keyboard.
2. Touch Gboard > Preferences.

3. Do any of the following:

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

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 > Language & input > Virtual keyboard.
2. Touch Gboard > Glide typing.
3. Turn Enable glide typing off .

1. Go to Settings > Language & 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 .

1. Go to Settings > Language & input > Virtual keyboard.
2. Touch Gboard > Text correction.

3. Adjust settings:

   • If you don't want words corrected while you type, turn Auto-correction off .
   • If you don't want misspelt words to be underlined, turn Spell check off .