Typing

The Typing screen is a hub. Seven of its groups are pages of their own (Automatic corrections, Capitals, punctuation and spacing, Suggestions, Smart chips, One-time codes, Gestures, Physical keyboard) and two short groups stay on the hub: Enter key and Volume keys. Gestures is a hub in its own right, with three pages under it: Glide typing, Spacebar, and Flicks and swipes. The Delete keys group used to sit here too; it lives on Key press now, with the rest of what a key does under your finger. The tool-shortcuts letter list is one tap deeper still. Most of what’s here has its own task-focused guide too, linked from each group below. This page is the field-by-field reference, for checking a default or finding a setting by name.

The Typing settings screen, scrolled to the Automatic corrections group.

Automatic corrections

WM Keyboard › Typing › Automatic corrections

Setting	Type	Default	Shown when
Autocorrect	Toggle	On	always
Autocorrect confidence	Slider, ×1–×10	×4.0	Autocorrect on
Adaptive confidence	Toggle	On	Autocorrect on
Typing rhythm	Slider, 0%–100%	0% (off)	Autocorrect on
Undo autocorrect with backspace	Toggle	On	Autocorrect on
Undo a correction from the strip	Toggle	On	Autocorrect on
How often to offer the undo	Slider, 0%–100%	50%	Autocorrect on and Undo a correction from the strip on
Remember my undos	Choice: Off / Light / Normal / Strict	Normal	Autocorrect on
Stop after I refuse a fix	Slider, Never / 1–5	2	Autocorrect on
Learned correction gate	Toggle	On	Autocorrect on
Skip words in capital letters	Toggle	On	Autocorrect on
Correct the word before Enter	Toggle	On	Autocorrect on
Correct the word before punctuation	Toggle	Off	Autocorrect on
Add missing spaces	Toggle	On	Autocorrect on
Undo backspace from the strip	Toggle	Off	always
Learn from my fixes	Toggle	On	always
Learned corrections	Screen		always
Capitals from the word list	Toggle	On	always
Block offensive words	Toggle	On	always
Context-aware suggestions	Toggle	On	always
Context model	Toggle	On	always
Re-check the previous word	Toggle	On	always
Shortcuts while converting	Toggle	On	always
Chips on the far side	Toggle	Off	always
Phrase suggestions	Toggle	Off	always
Detect the language you type	Toggle	On	always
Detection strength	Choice: Gentle / Balanced / Aggressive	Balanced	Detect the language you type on
Remember each app’s language	Toggle	On	Detect the language you type on
Fix number row slips	Toggle	On	the number row is shown
Learn where my taps land	Toggle, with a Forget button	On	always
Mistype tolerance	Slider, 50–200%	100%	always
Fix several missed keys	Choice: Off / Careful / Eager	Careful	always
Adapt to app tone	Toggle	On	always
Fix missing apostrophes	Toggle	On	always

Autocorrect is this group’s master switch, and thirteen rows hang off it: the ones that tune when and how hard it corrects, from Autocorrect confidence down to Add missing spaces. How often to offer the undo also needs Undo a correction from the strip on. From Undo backspace from the strip downwards the rows stay whether autocorrect is on or off, because none of them needs it: the keyboard still learns from the typos you fix by hand, spells, filters and ranks the strip, and detects the language you type. Detection strength and Remember each app’s language need Detect the language you type on. Fix number row slips shows up only while the number row is on screen, since it corrects a digit to the letter below it.

Undo a correction from the strip puts the word you typed on a chip so you can take a correction back after backspace can no longer reach it, and How often to offer the undo is the bar a correction has to fall under to earn that chip. See Autocorrect.

Undo backspace from the strip puts whatever backspace took on a chip on the suggestion strip. Press the chip and the text comes back where it was; the chip then reads Redo and deletes it again, so you can flip between the two. A run of presses, a held backspace or a backspace swipe is one delete, and comes back with one press, and the chip takes the whole strip when you have just emptied the field. It goes as soon as you type, move the cursor or select something, and never shows in a password field. Off by default, because it is a chip after every backspace.

Remember my undos is one choice of four, and it governs how long the keyboard holds on to a correction you undid, not whether undoing works. See Autocorrect.

Stop after I refuse a fix ends the loop where a correction is deleted, the word retyped, and the correction made again. Once you have undone or deleted a correction at the same place that many times (2 by default), the word you type there is left alone. See Autocorrect.

Learn from my fixes remembers the typos you repair by hand, and the slips behind them, and Learn where my taps land learns where your finger lands on each key from the words you keep. Learned corrections opens the list of both, along with the corrections you undid, and lets you add, change or remove each entry on its own. See Learning from your own fixes.

Learned correction gate replaces the fixed-ratio rule with one fitted judgement over everything the keyboard knows about a candidate, and holds back from rewriting correctly typed new words. See The learned gate. Context model reads the whole sentence with a small downloaded language model, Re-check the previous word offers a fix for a word behind the caret once the words after it show what you meant, and re-reads the last few after a pause, and Phrase suggestions offers the next few words as one chip. See The context model.

Several of these rows rank candidates rather than correct them, and they sit here because that’s where the app puts them. Context-aware suggestions reorders the strip using the words before what you’re typing, and Context model, Re-check the previous word and Phrase suggestions are the neural model’s three rows. Adapt to app tone nudges chat-speak up in messaging apps and down in email. Typing rhythm lets a fast, sloppy burst make autocorrect fire more eagerly than slow deliberate typing does. Rhythm ships at 0%, so it does nothing until you move the slider.

A navigation row at the bottom opens Capitals, punctuation and spacing, the page below: the half of this screen that types for you rather than correcting you, moved out so that this page is autocorrect and nothing else.

Full writeup: Autocorrect covers the confidence math, what a word is never corrected to, and reverting a correction with backspace. Mixed-language typing covers Detect the language you type and its three strengths. Suggestions & prediction covers context reranking and app tone.

Capitals, punctuation and spacing

WM Keyboard › Typing › Capitals, punctuation and spacing

Reached from the Typing hub and from the bottom of Automatic corrections. Three groups: Capitals, Punctuation and spacing, and Brackets and lists. Nothing here corrects a word; every row adds or removes something as you type. Each row keeps the default it had on Automatic corrections.

Setting	Type	Default	Shown when
Automatic capital letters	Toggle	On	always
Shift changes the case of the selection	Toggle	On	always
Shift changes the case of the word before the cursor	Toggle	Off	Shift changes the case of the selection on
Shift changes the case of the word around the cursor	Toggle	Off	Shift changes the case of the selection on
Double space	Choice: Two spaces / Full stop / Tab	Full stop	always
Double space speed	Slider, 200–800 ms	400 ms	Double space is Full stop or Tab
Automatic space after punctuation	Toggle	Off	always
Remove a space before punctuation	Toggle	On	always
Marks that pull the space out	Text	.,?!;:।،؛؟۔	Remove a space before punctuation on
Space before French punctuation	Toggle	On	always
Space after a suggestion	Toggle	On	always
Wrap the selection with brackets	Toggle	On	always
Close brackets for me	Toggle	Off	always
Close quotes for me	Toggle	Off	always
Continue lists	Toggle	On	always

Space before French punctuation types the space French keeps in front of !, ?, ;, : and », and behind «, and stops the two rules above from taking it back. It only does anything in the languages that are written that way (French, Breton, Occitan, Walloon, Picard, Norman and Franco-Provençal), and every other language types exactly as it did before. See Autocorrect.

Double space is one choice: Two spaces, Full stop or Tab. The Double space speed slider only appears while it is Full stop or Tab. Space after a suggestion lives in this group even though it governs the suggestion strip, not autocorrect. That’s where the app’s own settings screen files it, so that’s where it is here. Each language also has its own switch on its page in Languages & layouts, and Bangla’s is off out of the box, so its endings can follow a pick straight away. While any language’s switch is off, this row’s description names those languages, so a Bangla pick without a space no longer looks like the row being ignored.

Full writeup: Suggestions & prediction covers Space after a suggestion, and Gestures and Text editing cover selection-wrap and shift-recase.

Suggestions

WM Keyboard › Typing › Suggestions

Setting	Type	Default	Shown when
Suggestions	Toggle	On	always
Punctuation suggestions	Toggle	Off	Suggestions on
Punctuation marks	Text field	.,?!'	Punctuation suggestions on
Number of suggestions	Slider, 2–6	3	always
More slots for short words	Toggle	Off	always
Right-to-left words start on the right	Toggle	On	always
Words before you type	Text field	Empty	always
Swipe down for more suggestions	Toggle	Off	always
Emoji in the grid	Toggle	On	Swipe down for more suggestions or a scrolling strip on
Fancy text in the grid	Toggle	Off	same
Swipe up for more suggestions	Toggle	Off	always
More suggestions in a grid	Toggle	Off	either swipe on
Emoji takes a slot	Toggle	Off	always
Suggested emoji	Slider, 1–4	4	always
Keep suggestions in place	Toggle	Off	always
Coloured suggestions	Toggle	Off	always
Scroll the suggestions	Toggle	Off	always
More suggestions arrow	Toggle	Off	Scroll the suggestions on
Learn a word after	Slider, 1–5 (“Once” at 1)	Once	always
Offer corrections it isn’t sure about	Toggle	On	Autocorrect on
Ask before saving new words	Toggle	Off	always
Remember a new word after	Slider, 1–10 (“Straight away” at 1)	3	Ask before saving new words off
Suggestions in every field	Toggle	On	always
Suggestion strip always visible	Toggle	Off	Suggestions on
Best suggestion in the middle	Toggle	On	always
Shorten long words	In the middle / At the end	In the middle	Scroll the suggestions off
Suggest contact names	Toggle	Off	always (requests Contacts permission)
Suggest contact emails	Toggle	Off	always (requests Contacts permission)
Contact emails in email fields too	Toggle	On	Suggest contact emails on
Suggest app names	Toggle	Off	always
Inline emoji search	Toggle	On	always
Password manager suggestions	Toggle	On	Android 11+ only
Password manager button	Toggle	On	Android 9+ only. Opens the system autofill service’s app from a password field with no saved login on the strip. Stays off when that service is WM Pass
WM Pass tool in password fields	Toggle	Off	Android 9+ only, Advanced. With WM Pass as the autofill service, the button comes back and opens the keyboard’s WM Pass tool
Smart replies	Toggle	On	Android 11+ only
Only offer new words	Toggle	Off	always
Word as typed first	Toggle	Off	always
Recent words	Toggle	Off	always
Numbers from the letter keys	Toggle	Off	Number row off
Autopilot	Nav row	n/a	always (opens the Autopilot screen below)
Words on the keys	Nav row	n/a	always (opens the Words on the keys screen below)
Personal dictionary	Nav row	n/a	always (opens the Personal dictionary screen)
Custom dictionaries	Nav row	n/a	always (opens the Custom dictionaries screen)
Suggestion blacklist	Nav row	n/a	always (opens the Suggestion blacklist screen)
Word menu	Chips	Never suggest, Add, Delete, Synonyms, Suggest higher or lower	always
Synonym sources	Provider list	Vocabulary packs, Datamuse thesaurus, Wiktionary, Free Dictionary API, Similar words, all on	always
Adjust rank changes	Choice	Both	always
Delete edits imported lists	Toggle	On	always

The Suggestions group, including the three dictionary and blacklist navigation rows.

Suggestions is the master switch for the whole strip: word completions, typo corrections offered as candidates, and next-word prediction. Punctuation marks sets which marks the punctuation chips offer, one per character, in the order you want them. Leave it blank and it falls back to the shipped .,?!'. Number of suggestions splits the strip evenly, so raising it on a narrow screen buys candidates at the cost of reading each one. More slots for short words adds up to three slots past that number while the words are short enough to fit them at full size. Swipe down for more suggestions opens a grid of up to 24 words over the keys; Swipe up for more suggestions opens up to 12 just above the strip, where you keep your finger down, slide onto a word and lift to use it. More suggestions in a grid lines either set up in one column per suggestion slot. See Suggestions. Scroll the suggestions lifts that trade: each word keeps its natural size and the strip scrolls sideways when they overrun it, so five or six candidates read fine on a narrow phone. Short words still fill the strip exactly as before. Turn on More suggestions arrow as well and an arrow at the end of the strip opens the rest of the ranked words in a grid over the keys; a swipe down opens the same grid either way. Shorten long words picks where a word that still overruns its slot is cut: in the middle, so both its start and its ending stay readable (Punct…tion), or at the end (Punctuat…). The colors the strip paints a correction in, and a word it has not learned yet, live with the rest of its looks, under Look & feel / Toolbar.

Remember a new word after is how many times you have to type a word nothing recognises before it’s saved to your personal dictionary at all. It only counts a use once you’ve moved on and left the word alone, so a typo you go back and fix never counts. Set it to 1 to save every new word straight away, which is what versions before this did. Words already in a dictionary skip this entirely and are counted the moment you type them.

Ask before saving new words replaces that counting with a chip on the suggestion strip reading Add "yourword"?. Nothing is saved unless you tap it, and the ✕ stops the keyboard asking about that word again. Turning it on hides the slider above, since the two answer the same question different ways.

Learn a word after is a further threshold, applied to words already in your dictionary: how many reinforcements before autocorrect leaves the word alone. At the default of 1 the slider reads “Once”. Suggestions are untouched either way: a word under the count can still be offered; it isn’t shielded from correction.

All three are covered in full on Personal dictionary.

Word menu picks which of the five optional items the press-and-hold menu on a suggested word offers; Edit is always on it. Synonym sources sets where the menu’s Synonyms looks, in order: each source is asked only when the ones above it had no synonyms for the word or could not be reached. Drag to reorder, switch a source off to never ask it, or remove it and add it back later with Add a provider. Adjust rank changes decides which rank controls the word card shows: the learned weight (the personal dictionary’s own count), a separate rank adjustment that can move any word up or down, or both. All three settings are covered on Personal dictionary.

Delete edits imported lists governs what happens when you delete one of your own imported words from the strip. On, the word is removed from that list’s file for good. Off, the list stays untouched and the word is blacklisted instead, the same as a word from a downloaded list, which can’t be edited.

Offer corrections it isn’t sure about puts a fix that came close to firing on the strip as a chip rather than dropping it. It never applies anything on its own, and a correction you have already undone once is never offered. See Autocorrect.

The three navigation rows at the bottom open their own screens rather than an inline setting. The subtitle on Suggestion blacklist starts as “Words to never suggest or autocorrect to” and becomes a running count (“3 words never suggested”) once you’ve added something. All three are documented in full on Dictionaries & words.

Full writeup: Suggestions & prediction for the strip itself, Contact-aware typing for the three permission-gated toggles, Password manager chips & smart replies for the two Android-11 toggles, Autocorrect for autopilot, and Words on the keys for the octopus screen.

The Autopilot screen

WM Keyboard › Typing › Suggestions › Autopilot

Setting	Control	Default	Shown when
Autopilot	Toggle	On	always (needs Suggestions on to bias toward anything)
Strength	Slider 1–20	5	Autopilot on
Show the effect	Toggle	Off	Autopilot on
Size of the effect	Slider ×1.0–×3.0	×1.0	Show the effect on
Outline the touch areas	Toggle	Off	Autopilot on
Animate the touch areas	Toggle	Off	Autopilot on

Strength is how far a favoured letter reaches over the key next to it. At 1 only a tap on the exact edge changes hands; at 10 an expected letter claims most of the space between itself and a letter the word list isn’t expecting, and from 11 to 20 it pushes further still until the reach limit stops it. No letter ever reaches more than about one key width from its own centre, whatever the slider says, and a press in the middle of a key is never reassigned at any strength.

The other rows make the invisible visible. Show the effect draws each expected letter over the board at the size its touch area has grown to, so you can watch the strength setting work while you type. At most three letters are drawn at once, and they’re the three the word list expects most, ranked by likelihood rather than by how much room each one won: on a crowded row the likeliest letter can be hemmed in by its neighbours and grow the least of the lot, and it’s still the one you’re looking for. What each one is drawn with is the ground the bias won it, measured against where the boundary would have sat with nothing favoured at all. On a layout whose keys differ in width that is not the same as the key you see, since the halfway line between a wide key and a narrow one already falls inside the wide one. The keys themselves never move. Outline the touch areas draws a thin line around the same edge, which is what your press is judged against. Both are off by default, since the point of the feature is that you don’t notice it.

Animate the touch areas (off by default) makes that drawing move smoothly: each letter grows or shrinks to its new size instead of jumping on every keystroke, and fades in or out as it gains or loses favour. Only the drawing animates. The areas your presses are judged against change at once, exactly as before. Reduce motion turns it off.

The drawing follows your typing and nothing else. It disappears for the length of a glide, which owns the board while it’s being drawn, and moving the caret into a word you typed earlier doesn’t bring it back.

Size of the effect is how big the drawing gets, and nothing else: your presses land in the same places at every value. ×1.0 draws each area at its true size. Above that it is the growth that multiplies, not the whole key, so a letter that claimed no extra space still draws at the size of its key and only the difference gets larger. Raise it to see a gentle strength setting at a glance, or leave it at ×1.0 for the true picture. The outline follows the same size, so the two always agree.

The Words on the keys screen

WM Keyboard › Typing › Suggestions › Words on the keys

Setting	Type	Default	Shown when
Words on the keys	Toggle	Off	always
Where the words sit	Choice: Above the key / Own lane / Inside the key	Above the key	Words on the keys on
How many words	Slider, 3–26	6	Words on the keys on
What may appear	Multi-choice: Completions / Corrections / Next words	All three	Words on the keys on
While gliding	Choice: Nothing / Other readings / The next word	Nothing	Words on the keys on, glide typing on
Flick up to pick	Toggle	On	Words on the keys on
Flick sensitivity	Choice: Strict / Balanced / Relaxed	Balanced	Flick up to pick on
Tap the word to pick	Toggle	On	Words on the keys on
Word size	Slider, ×0.6–×1.6	×1.0	Words on the keys on
Hide the corner hint	Toggle	Off	Words on the keys on
Long-press characters too	Toggle	Off	Words on the keys on

Words on the keys floats a predicted word over the key that would type it next: with hel typed, hello sits over L and help over P. It only adds to the suggestion strip, never replaces it, and ships off. Where the words sit chooses the geometry: above the key without growing the keyboard, in a lane of its own with more room and a taller board, or inside the key sharing its small box with the letter. How many words trades quiet for coverage. Low values show only the words the keyboard is confident about and often leave the board empty; high values fill nearly every key that can carry one, and a key too narrow for its word stays bare rather than showing it cramped. What may appear limits the kinds of guess allowed on the keys: completions continue the word you’re typing, corrections fix it and draw in a different color where the match breaks down, and next words appear over their first letters after a space, before you’ve typed anything.

While gliding asks the same question about a stroke, and it has its own answer because the two surfaces want different things. Nothing, the default, leaves the keys bare until you lift. Other readings floats the alternatives the decoder is still holding, each over the key that reaches it, so you can steer mid-swipe. The next word offers what would follow the word you’re drawing, over the key it starts with, so a glide typist can flick it the moment the swipe ends. None of the three changes what appears at the lift: a finished glide always puts the next-word offer on the keys. See Words on the keys.

Two gestures take a floating word. Flick up to pick reads a straight, mostly vertical stroke off a key as picking its word rather than starting a glide, and Flick sensitivity sets how far off straight up, and how curved, that stroke may still be and count. Tap the word to pick writes it with a direct tap on the small floating text, though on the top row only the half hanging over the key can be tapped.

Hide the corner hint clears a key’s long-press hint while it’s carrying a word, since the two sit close enough to read as one thing; a key with nothing to say keeps its hint either way. Long-press characters too, off by default, also floats words that need a long press to reach their next letter, at the cost of a key promising a word a plain press won’t finish.

Smart chips

WM Keyboard › Typing › Smart chips

Setting	Type	Default	Shown when
Smart chips	Toggle	On	always
Calculate as you type	Toggle	On	Smart chips on
Convert currencies	Toggle	On	Smart chips on
Convert units	Toggle	On	Smart chips on
Tool keywords	Toggle	On	Smart chips on
Resolve dates	Toggle	On	Smart chips on
Date chip formats	Text: date patterns separated by |	Empty (the chip’s own “Tue 11 Aug”)	Resolve dates on (advanced)
Answer weather questions	Toggle	On	Smart chips on
Offer lookups	Toggle	On	Smart chips on
Translate hints	Toggle	On	Smart chips on
GIFs for celebrations	Toggle	On	Smart chips on
Group long numbers	Toggle	On	Smart chips on
Grouping style	Choice: Automatic / Thousands / Lakh and crore	Automatic	Group long numbers on
Call or text a contact	Toggle	Off	Smart chips on
Repeated text	Toggle	On	Smart chips on
Chip after this many repeats	Stepper: 2–6	3	Repeated text on
Keep the text when a chip opens its tool	Toggle	Off	Smart chips on

Convert currencies’ own subtitle ends with your live target currency code instead of describing the setting, so out of the box it reads “…offers the amount in BDT”. It updates the moment you change that currency inside the Currency converter tool. The same three calculate/currency/unit toggles are mirrored inside each tool’s own Options screen. See Smart chips for where. Five of the rows above are the phrase-triggered chips: “next friday” offers a date, “will it rain” the forecast, “define serendipity” a dictionary lookup, “in spanish” the translator, and “happy birthday” a GIF search. Group long numbers offers a typed run of digits back grouped, so 1234567 gets a chip reading 1,234,567, and one press types the grouped form; Grouping style picks where the separators fall, following the language you’re typing in when it’s Automatic. Call or text a contact turns a typed contact name into a chip that opens the dialer or your messages app for that person; it asks for the contacts permission when you switch it on. Repeated text offers the Text repeat tool once the same text has been typed in a row Chip after this many repeats times, opened on that text with the count set; the tool’s own page decides whether its Insert replaces the typed copies or adds to them. Keep the text when a chip opens its tool stops a chip’s settings button from removing what you typed (150 usd, calculator) when it opens the tool. With it off, the first backspace after the tool closes puts that text back, as long as nothing was typed in between.

The Smart chips group: the master switch and its per-family toggles.

Full writeup: Smart chips.

One-time codes

WM Keyboard › Typing › One-time codes

Setting	Type	Default	Shown when
Codes from notifications	Toggle	Off	always
Allow notification access	Nav row	n/a	Codes from notifications on and access not granted yet
Only in code boxes	Toggle	Off	Codes from notifications on
Offer a code for	Slider, 1–10 min	3 min	Codes from notifications on
Clear the notification	Toggle	Off	Codes from notifications on
Type codes one character at a time	Toggle	On	always

Codes from notifications is the only row here that needs a grant. Turn it on and you get a disclosure, then the system’s notification-listener screen. The Allow notification access row is the way back to that screen, and it disappears once access is granted. Turn the toggle off and the keyboard stops reading notifications at once, dropping any code it was holding.

Type codes one character at a time sits outside the enabled block on purpose. It governs how every code is typed, including one tapped from a clipboard chip, which needs no notification access at all.

Full writeup: One-time codes, and Permissions for the grant itself.

Gestures

WM Keyboard › Typing › Gestures

Gestures is a hub of three pages. Its own list is three rows: Glide typing, which carries the glide master switch on the row itself and opens the page of the same name, Spacebar and Flicks and swipes. Everything that used to sit on one screen of sixty-nine rows is on one of the three.

The Gestures group: the spacebar's Quick swipe and Hold + swipe pickers.

Glide typing

WM Keyboard › Typing › Gestures › Glide typing

Setting	Type	Default	Shown when
Glide typing	Toggle	On	always
What a swipe does	Choice: Type words / Handwrite / Slide to a key	Type words	Glide typing on (Handwrite Not on F-Droid)
Glide across the spacebar	Toggle	On	Glide typing on and swipe mode is Type words
Two-thumb typing	Toggle	Off	Glide typing on and swipe mode is Type words
Finish a two-thumb word	Choice: Space / All thumbs up	Space	Two-thumb typing on
Pause after a swiped word	Slider, 100–1500 ms	350 ms	Two-thumb typing on and All thumbs up
Pause after a tapped word	Slider, 100–1500 ms	Same as the swiped-word pause	Two-thumb typing on and All thumbs up
Pause after a one-letter word	Slider, 100–1500 ms	The shorter of the swiped-word and tapped-word pauses	Two-thumb typing on and All thumbs up
Take the space back	Slider, 0–3000 ms (“Off” at 0)	Twice the swiped-word pause (700 ms)	Two-thumb typing on and All thumbs up
Show the pause on the strip	Toggle	On	Two-thumb typing on and All thumbs up
Swipe finishes typed letters	Toggle	Off	Glide typing on, swipe mode is Type words, and Two-thumb typing off
Glide over Shift to capitalize	Toggle	On	Glide typing on and swipe mode is Type words
What a pass over Shift capitalizes	Choice: Whole word / One letter	Whole word	Glide over Shift to capitalize on
Ask when a glide is unclear	Toggle	On	Glide typing on and swipe mode is Type words
When to ask	Choice: Near ties / Close calls / Any doubt / Every pause	Close calls	Ask when a glide is unclear on
Time to hold still	Slider, 150–1000 ms	350 ms	Ask when a glide is unclear on
Hold longer to always ask	Toggle	On	Ask when a glide is unclear on, and When to ask is not Every pause
Words to choose from	Slider, 2–5	3	Ask when a glide is unclear on
Learn my swipe style	Toggle	On	Glide typing on and swipe mode is Type words
Forget my swipe style	Action, with a confirm		Glide typing on and swipe mode is Type words
Glide check-up	Screen		Glide typing on and swipe mode is Type words. The row’s line says where the check-up stands
Words a glide can produce	Choice: Everything / Large / Medium / Small	Large	Glide typing on and swipe mode is Type words
Whose words a glide can produce	Choice: Every word / Prefer my words / Only my words / Automatic	Every word	Glide typing on and swipe mode is Type words
Offer a full search while proofreading	Toggle	Off	Glide typing on and swipe mode is Type words
Swiped words a full search can reach	Slider, 0–500	24	Glide typing on and swipe mode is Type words
Steadiness of the word while you glide	Choice: Off / Light / Steady / Very steady	Light	Glide typing on and swipe mode is Type words
Finish long words early	Choice: Off / When sure / Eager	Off	Glide typing on and swipe mode is Type words
Glide engine	Choice: Built-in / FUTO Swipe (English, QWERTY) / Google’s gesture library (imported)	Built-in	Glide typing on and swipe mode is Type words. The last choice is not in the Google Play version. See The FUTO Swipe engine and Google’s gesture library
Gesture library	Action: Import / Replace (file picker)		Google’s gesture library is the engine, or a library is imported; not in the Google Play version
Remove gesture library	Action, with a confirm		A library is imported; not in the Google Play version. Removing it switches glides back to the built-in decoder at once
Color the word a lift will type	Choice: Never / When sure / Any early word / Always	When sure	Glide typing on and swipe mode is Type words
Where the color shows	Choice: Strip / Strip and pill / Strip, pill and keys	Strip and pill	Glide typing on and swipe mode is Type words
Space after a glided word	Toggle	On	Glide typing on and swipe mode is Type words
Backspace removes a glided word	Toggle	On	Glide typing on and swipe mode is Type words
Apostrophe in a glide	Choice: Off / Comma / Full stop / Spacebar / Apostrophe key	Off	Glide typing on and swipe mode is Type words
Swipe start distance	Slider, 0.5×–4×	2.0×	Glide typing on
Delay after typing	Slider, 0–500 ms (“Off” at 0)	160 ms	Glide typing on and swipe mode is Type words
Extra time for a dot or a cross	Slider, 0–1500 ms (“Off” at 0)	700 ms	Not on F-Droid and swipe mode is Handwrite
Trail style	Choice: Off / Thin / Normal / Bold	Normal	Glide typing on, and no theme pins the trail
Trail width	Slider, 2–24 dp	10 dp	Glide typing on
Trail length	Slider, 100–1200 ms	350 ms	Glide typing on
Trail opacity	Slider, 0%–100%	55%	Glide typing on
Word preview	Toggle	On	Glide typing on and swipe mode is Type words
Preview distance above finger	Slider, 0–160 dp	56 dp	Word preview on
Preview sideways shift	Slider, −80–80 dp	0 dp	Word preview on
Preview text size	Slider, 12–32 sp	18 sp	Word preview on
Preview color	Color picker, or Automatic	Automatic	Word preview on
Preview text color	Color picker, or Automatic	Automatic	Word preview on
One word on the strip	Toggle	Off	Glide typing on and swipe mode is Type words

While Two-thumb typing is on, Glide across the spacebar, Glide over Shift to capitalize, What a pass over Shift capitalizes, Ask when a glide is unclear and its four sub-settings say “Off while two-thumb typing is on” in place of their usual line. Each of them reads one swipe as a whole word, which two-thumb typing does not do. They stay editable, and the values you set take effect again once two-thumb typing is off. The hint and capital flicks work with both thumbs, so their rows carry no such note.

What a swipe does is a picker rather than a toggle. It decides what a letter-area swipe means. Its Handwrite option needs the ML Kit handwriting model, so the F-Droid build leaves it out. Slide to a key turns a swipe into a way to aim a single key: the key under your finger lights up and shows its preview bubble, the keys you pass over type nothing, and only the key you lift on is typed. Lift outside the keys to type nothing. The glide-only rows (and the trail rows) hide while it is selected. Extra time for a dot or a cross is the mirror image of Delay after typing. One guards against reading a tap as the start of a glide, the other against reading a tap as a handwriting dot. Only one of the pair is ever on screen, since they hang off different What a swipe does choices.

Ask when a glide is unclear covers the strokes that have no single right answer. Hold your finger still at the end of one and the closest words appear just above your fingertip. Slide onto one and lift to take it. Lift without choosing and you get the best guess, as before. The stroke is finished the moment the words appear, so sliding to one does not redraw it, and sliding down away from the words and lifting types nothing at all. It matters most on a fixed Bangla layout, where ক and খ share a key, so a word and its aspirated twin are drawn identically. The four rows under it set When to ask (how close a call a stroke has to be, from Near ties to Every pause), Time to hold still (the pause before the words appear), Hold longer to always ask (a confident stroke still asks after twice the pause) and Words to choose from (two to five). See When a swipe is a genuine toss-up.

Trail style is the one trail control most people need. Thin, Normal and Bold set the trail’s width, how long it lingers and how solid it is together, and Off draws no trail at all. The three sliders under it set each value on its own and sit behind the group’s More settings row at the Simple and Standard depths; the style reads back as whichever preset the width is nearest to, with Off whenever the opacity is zero. A theme that pins the trail’s width or opacity hides the style row, since the sliders say which theme is holding them.

Full writeup: Glide typing for the glide sub-settings, and Handwriting for handwrite mode.

Advanced tuning

A fold further down the Glide typing page, closed until you open it. Every row in it is a weight the glide decoder reads a stroke with, and the whole group is hidden unless glide typing is on and the swipe mode is Type words. Each row keeps its own reset, so nothing here is a one-way door.

Setting	Type	Default	Shown when
Start error radius	Slider, 0.5×–4×	1.6×	always
End error radius	Slider, 0.5×–4×	2.0×	always
Path error radius	Slider, 0.5×–4×	1.9×	always
Error radius by language	Link, one row per language	None	always
Pause to mark a letter	Slider, 1×–8×	2.0×	always
Loop to double a letter	Toggle	On	always
Loop sensitivity	Slider, 0.5×–2×	1.0×	Loop to double a letter on
Biggest loop that counts	Slider, 0.4×–1.2×	0.8×	Loop to double a letter on
Loop centring	Slider, 0.35×–1×	0.60×	Loop to double a letter on
Wiggle to mark a letter	Toggle	Off	always
Wiggle strength	Slider, 10%–100%	50%	Wiggle to mark a letter on
Biggest wiggle that counts	Slider, 0.2×–0.9×	0.50×	Wiggle to mark a letter on
Shapes kept per word	Slider, 1–20	3	Learn my swipe style on

The first three decide which words a stroke may be read as at all, and Error radius by language lists the languages that set their own on their page in Languages. The rest decide how a stroke marks a letter, which shape alone cannot: a pause on the key or a rub back and forth over it says the letter is in the word, and a small circle on it says the letter is written twice. Every value is in key widths except the pause, which is a multiple of your own speed in that same stroke, and the wiggle’s strength, which is a percentage of a full stop. The last row is a count: how many of your own shapes Learn my swipe style keeps for one word.

Full writeup: Marking a letter as you glide.

Glide check-up

WM Keyboard › Typing › Gestures › Glide typing › Glide check-up

Setting	Type	Default	Shown when
Measure my swipes	Toggle	Off	always
Measured so far	Line		always
Your swipes	Five lines: corner cutting, where your finger sits, stroke size, touch-down, lift-off		At least one swipe measured
Suggested change	Card: Apply / Not now, then Undo		30 swipes measured and a candidate value reads more of them right
Checking the change	Card: Keep / Undo		A change was applied and is being confirmed over the next 40 swipes
Frequency weight	Line, with a reset	The language’s own	always
Start over	Action, with a confirm		always

The check-up fits Words a glide can produce and the decoder’s frequency weight to your own swipes. The frequency weight has no row of its own anywhere else: it is set per language, the check-up may lay a fitted value over the language’s, and this screen is where that value is shown and reset. Measuring keeps only words, never strokes, and stops at 200 records.

Full writeup: The glide check-up.

Spacebar

WM Keyboard › Typing › Gestures › Spacebar

Three groups: Swipes, Press and hold, and What the spacebar shows.

Setting	Type	Default	Shown when
Quick swipe on the spacebar	Choice: Nothing / Language / Cursor / Numpad / Keyboards	Language	always
Press and hold, then swipe	Choice: Nothing / Language / Cursor / Numpad / Keyboards	Cursor	always
Space swipe distance	Slider, 6–60 dp	12 dp	always (advanced)
2-D cursor touchpad	Toggle	Off	either swipe slot above is Cursor
Cursor speed	Slider, 4–32 dp	16 dp	either swipe slot above is Cursor
Cursor magnifier	Toggle	On	either swipe slot above is Cursor
Swipe down to hide the keyboard	Toggle	Off	always (this is the spacebar’s swipe, see note below)
Arrows on the spacebar	Toggle	On	either swipe slot above is Language
Keep the new language on screen	Slider, Off–1000 ms, steps of 50	500 ms	either swipe slot above is Language
Spacebar long press keys	Text field	Blank (the hold opens the language picker)	always
Language picker shape	Choice: List / Carousel	List	always
Picker for more than four layouts	Toggle	On	always
The spacebar shows	Choice: Language / Layout / Both / Nothing	Language	always
Spacebar text	Text field	Blank (falls back to the live spacebar label)	always
Typing speed on the spacebar	Toggle	Off	always

Nothing leaves the spacebar blank: no language name and no swipe arrows. Your own Spacebar text, if you set one, still shows, without the language name a %s would have brought in. The language picker and the overlay a language switch shows keep their names whatever this says.

Note

Two settings are named almost the same thing. This one, “Swipe down to hide the keyboard” under Typing → Gestures → Spacebar, dismisses the keyboard on a downward swipe of the spacebar. A separate, independent toggle under WM Keyboard › Appearance › Toolbar › Swipe down to hide does the same for a downward flick on the toolbar strip instead. Search results for “swipe down” bring back both. See Gestures for the full disambiguation.

Full writeup: Gestures for the spacebar drags and the language picker, and Switching languages for what the hold and the swipe do with several languages.

Flicks and swipes

WM Keyboard › Typing › Gestures › Flicks and swipes

Two groups of its own, Flicks and Other swipes, followed by the three groups of swipes you lay over the keys yourself: Multi-finger swipes, Chords with ?123 and Swipes on keys.

Setting	Type	Default	Shown when
Swipe down to type the hint	Toggle	Off	always
Swipe up for a capital	Toggle	Off	always
Show flick arms on keys	Toggle	On	always
Flick popup	Toggle	On	always
Tap a swipe-only key to see its swipes	Toggle	Off	always
Flick distance	Slider, 8–48 dp	22 dp	always
Flick reach	Slider, 80–200% of the key’s diagonal	141%	Glide typing on
A flick onto a letter glides a word	Toggle	Off	Glide typing on
Swipe to add ‘s	Choice: Off / Comma / Full stop / Apostrophe key	Off	always
Swipe in from the edge to go back	Toggle	Off	always
Multi-finger swipes	Toggle	On	always
2, 3 and 4 fingers up / down / left / right	Action picker (any key action)	Two fingers: Select all / Paste / Undo / Redo; the rest Nothing	Multi-finger swipes on
Reset swipe actions	Action		Multi-finger swipes on and a swipe has been changed
Chords with ?123	Toggle	On	always
?123 + a key	Action picker (any key action)	?123 + L: Next language	Chords with ?123 on
Add a chord	Action: a key, then an action		Chords with ?123 on
Reset chords	Action		Chords with ?123 on and a chord has been changed
Swipes on keys	Toggle	On, with no keys set	always
A key’s swipes	Eight directions, each an action picker (text or any key action)		Swipes on keys on
Add a key	Action: a key, then its directions		Swipes on keys on
Add a preset	Action: Numbers, Symbols or Editing shortcuts		Swipes on keys on
Remove all key swipes	Action		Swipes on keys on and a key has swipes

Full writeup: Gestures for the flicks, the edge swipe and the possessive swipe, and Custom layouts for the flick arms a layout carries itself.

Enter key

WM Keyboard › Typing › Enter key

Setting	Type	Default
Shift and Enter type a new line	Toggle	On

With this on, holding Shift (or pressing it first on a physical keyboard) makes Enter insert a line break instead of triggering the field’s Send/Go/Search action. Only a shift you pressed yourself counts: auto-capitalize’s own shift doesn’t arm it, and caps lock is ignored.

It also puts a small second glyph in the Enter key’s top right corner, holding whichever of the two the key isn’t currently doing: the newline symbol next to a Send icon, and the Send icon next to the newline symbol once Shift is up. The two trade places on the shift rather than one replacing the other. The long press trades with them: with Shift up, holding Enter offers the field’s action (Send, Go, Search) where it would otherwise offer the line break, and choosing it puts Shift back down.

Turning it off doesn’t take line breaks away. Press and hold Enter in any field where it shows the app’s action, and the popup offers one.

Volume keys

WM Keyboard › Typing › Volume keys

Setting	Type	Default	Shown when
Volume keys move the cursor	Toggle	Off	always
Release the keys while audio plays	Toggle	On	Volume keys move the cursor on

With Volume keys move the cursor on, volume down/up step the text cursor left/right instead of changing the volume while the keyboard is showing. Release the keys while audio plays hands the keys back to normal volume control the instant something is playing, re-checked on every keypress.

Volume cursor control and its media-aware release toggle.

Full writeup: Gestures.

Physical keyboard

WM Keyboard › Typing › Physical keyboard

Setting	Type	Default	Shown when
Process the physical keys	Toggle	On	always
Tool shortcuts	Toggle	On	always
Tool shortcuts list	Nav row	value = current shortcut key, e.g. “Double-tap Ctrl”	Tool shortcuts on
Ctrl + number opens a toolbar tool	Toggle	On	Tool shortcuts on
Write the modifier names	Toggle	On	Tool shortcuts on
Time to press a key	Slider, 1.0s–30.0s	8.0s	Tool shortcuts on
Arrow keys move over the keys	Toggle	Off (On on a television)	always
Arrow keys move a highlight	Toggle	On	always
Esc closes the tool	Toggle	On	always
Number keys select suggestions	Choice: Off / After the shortcut key / Alt + number	Alt + number	always
Show the suggestion numbers	Toggle	On	Number keys select suggestions is Alt + number
Pick mode key	Nav row	Off	always
F-keys press the toolbar	Choice: Off / In pick mode / Always	In pick mode	always
macOS shortcuts	Toggle	Off	always
Ctrl+Space changes the language	Toggle	On	always
Show the keyboard for shortcuts	Toggle	On	always

Arrow keys move over the keys puts a ring on the keyboard itself, so a television remote can type: the arrows move it and the centre button presses what it is on. It reaches the suggestion strip and the toolbar as well as the keys, and holding the centre button opens the ringed key’s long-press alternates. A television turns it on for itself; everywhere else it starts off, because the arrow keys belong to the app’s text field. See Android TV and Google TV.

Process the physical keys only governs typed characters. Turning it off stops physical keys from running through autocorrect and suggestions, but Tool shortcuts, panel navigation, and Esc keep working regardless, since none of them touch typed text.

Three rows decide how much the keyboard takes from your apps. Check them first if a shortcut you rely on stops working. Ctrl + number opens a toolbar tool claims Ctrl+1 to Ctrl+0 while a text field has focus, which is what browsers and editors use to switch tabs. Ctrl+Space changes the language claims the chord code editors use for completions. macOS shortcuts is off by default and only makes sense on a Mac keyboard, because on a PC one the Meta key is the Search/Windows key and belongs to the system.

Number keys select suggestions ships on Alt + number, so a digit picks a strip candidate with no shortcut key first. Show the suggestion numbers only appears in that mode. It puts the key under each suggestion for as long as a physical keyboard is attached, and on “After the shortcut key” the numbers already show at the moment they work. Time to press a key is how long the badges stay up after the shortcut key. Nothing else happens until they clear or you press one.

Pick mode key has no key until you choose one. Its press turns pick mode on, where the bare number keys pick suggestions and Shift with a number types the number; press it again to turn it off. F-keys press the toolbar decides when F1 to F10 work like Ctrl+1 to Ctrl+0. See Pick mode.

The Physical keyboard group, with Tool shortcuts list showing the current shortcut key.

Full writeup: Hardware keyboards.

The Tool shortcuts list screen

Tapping Tool shortcuts list opens a dedicated screen (route hwshortcuts) with no reference page of its own, so it’s documented here instead. It has two groups:

• Shortcut key: one nav row showing the current trigger, a double-tapped modifier or a captured chord, defaulting to Double-tap Ctrl. Tap it to open a capture dialog and record a different double-tap, or an arbitrary chord live from an attached keyboard. A chord apps commonly claim for themselves (Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, Ctrl+S, Ctrl+Tab) is still accepted, with a warning rather than a block.
• Tools: one row per supported tool, bound ones first sorted by letter, then unbound ones. Each row shows the tool’s icon, its name, and its assigned letter, or “None” where nothing is bound. A tool turned off under Tools shows a “This tool is off in Tools” caption instead. Tap a row to open a dialog with a one-character field. Type a letter or a digit there, since the field works with no keyboard plugged in. If that character is already taken, the dialog says which tool loses it and the button reads Move the letter.

A Reset to defaults button at the bottom restores every letter and the shortcut key itself, behind a confirmation dialog.

The Tool shortcuts list screen: every tool with its assigned letter.

T (toolbox) and ? (cheat sheet) are reserved and can never be bound to a tool. Every one of the other 25 letters ships bound to something, close to each tool’s own initial. This page only covers the settings screen. The full binding table lives on Hardware keyboards, and the printable cheat sheet on Hardware shortcuts.

Details & edge cases

• “Space after a suggestion” sits in the wrong-sounding group on purpose. It reads like a Suggestions setting, but the app itself files it under Capitals, punctuation and spacing, alongside the other space-insertion rules (double-space period/tab, auto-space after punctuation) it shares logic with.
• Structured and secure fields gate autocorrect, suggestions and the autopilot bias together. Smart chips use a related but separate check. Those first three share one check keyed on field kind: plain text only. Password fields, email fields and every keypad field (number, phone, date, time, date-time) lose all three, whatever each toggle says. A URL field is the one exception, and only for suggestions: with Suggestions in every field on, the keyboard composes the words you type in a browser’s address bar and completes them from the strip, while autocorrect and the autopilot bias stay off there, so an address is never second-guessed. Smart chips instead follow whether the app has asked to hide the suggestion strip. So with Suggestions in every field on (the default), a calc or currency chip can still appear in an email field where autocorrect and suggestions stay off. Number, phone, date and password fields block chips either way.
• Three separate settings each add a space, and none of them covers the others. “Automatic space after punctuation” spaces what follows a mark. “Space after a suggestion” spaces a word tapped from the strip. “Space after a glided word” spaces a word a swipe committed. All three treat that space as the keyboard’s to take back, so punctuation typed next removes it and a space press is spent on it. Each has its own switch, and turning one off leaves the other two alone.
• The two swipe-down settings are independent: “Swipe down to hide the keyboard” here under Gestures › Spacebar, and “Swipe down to hide” for the toolbar under Appearance. Turning one on has no effect on the other.
• The Handwrite option of What a swipe does is not in the F-Droid build, since it needs the ML Kit handwriting model. There the picker offers Type words and Slide to a key.
• Slide to a key leaves other drags alone. A drag from a key with flick directions, from the possessive key, from the space bar, the delete key, Shift, a modifier or ?123 keeps its own gesture. A slide only starts once the finger is over a different key, so a wobble inside one key is still a tap, and a held key whose alternates popup has opened keeps choosing from that popup. It replaces glide typing, the octopus flick and the short hint and capital flicks on letter keys while it is selected.
• “Apostrophe in a glide” takes one key, and picking the spacebar switches off “Glide across the spacebar”. One crossing can’t mean both “the word ends here” and “put an apostrophe here”, so while the spacebar is the apostrophe key the multi-word split stands down. The other three choices (comma, full stop, a real apostrophe key if your layout has one) leave it alone. Picking a key your current layout doesn’t have does nothing at all rather than falling back to some other key. The chosen key still types its own character when you press it, and going through it in a glide is always optional: the same word drawn straight still decodes. This setting is only about the apostrophe. Every other piece of in-word punctuation (hyphen, dot, at sign, underscore, ampersand, plus, slash) needs no key and no setting: draw the letters, skip the punctuation, and a word your dictionary spells “f-droid” comes back spelled that way. See Glide typing.
• “Swipe to add ‘s” is a gesture of its own, not part of glide typing. It takes its own key (comma, full stop, or a real apostrophe key if the layout has one), works with glide typing on or off, and extends whatever word sits behind the cursor: one you glided, one you tapped out, or one you’re still typing. Swiping to t, d, m, l, r or v adds 't, 'd, 'm, 'll, 're or 've instead ('t only after a word ending in n), and a line from the key to your finger shows the swipe while you draw it. Only the shape is strict: a short stroke from that key to the letter with a path no more than 1.6× the straight line between the two keys, which is what keeps a real word glided between the same two keys from being read as a possessive. A space after the word moves behind the 's, so the field reads “developer’s ” and never “developer ‘s”. Straight after a glide, one backspace still takes the whole word back. The possessive joins your personal dictionary, so next time you can glide “developer’s” in one stroke. It adds English endings to English words only: on an English layout, or on another language’s layout with English among its secondary languages (Banglish on Avro, say), where it takes a word in plain Latin letters and leaves a Bengali word alone.
• Every screen on this page has a deep link. wmkeyboard://settings/typing, wmkeyboard://settings/typing/corrections, wmkeyboard://settings/typing/gestures/glide, wmkeyboard://settings/hwshortcuts and the rest. A link or a favourite that still names a row on the screen it used to sit on, such as a glide row on typing/gestures, opens the page the row is on now. A single row has one too: wmkeyboard://setting/typing_autocorrect_title opens Automatic corrections and flashes the Autocorrect switch. See Deep links for the full table.
• Autopilot needs Suggestions on, not Autocorrect. It biases boundary taps toward whichever letter the suggestion engine’s own prediction favours, so with Suggestions off there’s nothing for it to bias toward.
• Several rows sit in Automatic corrections without being corrections. Context-aware suggestions, the three Context model rows and Adapt to app tone reorder or add to the strip, and they work with autocorrect off, so they stay on the page then. Typing rhythm is the one ranking row that hangs off the Autocorrect switch: it only changes how eagerly autocorrect fires.
• Every row with a control carries the per-setting reset, sliders, pickers and the two text fields included. A restore button next to a control means that row no longer matches the shipped default listed above. The navigation rows (Personal dictionary, Custom dictionaries, Suggestion blacklist, Tool shortcuts list) have nothing to reset, since they only open another screen.

For dictionary and blacklist screens opened from this page, see Dictionaries & words. For the toolbar and key-appearance settings that sit next to this screen, see Appearance. For the printable shortcut and gesture tables, see Hardware shortcuts and Gesture cheat sheet.