Common problems
My phone switched back to another keyboard
Android sometimes falls back to the previous keyboard after an app update or after the app is stopped. Open Flikzi and tap Choose next to Make it your keyboard, or pick Flikzi from the keyboard switcher.
Flikzi changed a word I meant
Swipe left on the space bar straight after the word. Your own letters come back, and Flikzi does not correct them again. If they are a word the dictionary doesn't have, such as a name, it is a word of yours from then on and stays as you type it.
Before you tap space, you can also tap your own letters in the strip: they are always the first or second word there.
To stop all corrections, open Flikzi, Typing, and turn off Autocorrect. Suggestions still show. Autocorrect and suggestions
Flikzi didn't fix a word
Autocorrect replaces your letters only when it is sure which word you meant. Look in the strip above the keys and tap the word. Nothing is corrected in web address, email and password fields, or when Autocorrect is off.
Flikzi put a space in my word
When your letters are no word Flikzi knows but spell two words, it takes them for two words with the space missed. Swipe left on the space bar straight after, and your letters come back as one word and stay that way. A missed space
A slide typed a whole word, or a flick did
That is glide typing: a finger that moves sideways into another key starts a word. Keep flicks short and mostly straight up or down. To switch gliding off, open Flikzi, Typing, and turn off Glide typing.
I keep hitting the key next door
That is what autocorrect is for, and Flikzi learns where your thumbs land on each key as you type. If the keys feel small, make them taller: Flikzi, Keyboard, Key height. On a big phone, one-handed mode brings every key within one thumb's reach.
There is no shift key or delete key
That is on purpose.
- Capital: flick the letter up. For a whole word, flick the right half of the space bar up. Capitals
- Delete: swipe left on the space bar. Deleting
Enter is the last key of the bottom row, after the full stop, where some keyboards have their delete key. If you reach there to delete, you may send a message instead. Flick Enter down when you want a new line.
There are no suggestions
- Password fields get no suggestions. Every other text field does, including address bars and email fields.
- Check that Suggestions is on: Flikzi, Typing, Suggestions.
- In Chinese and Japanese the strip shows candidates for the letters instead. In Korean it completes words only. Flick up on the left half of the space bar to go to your other language.
A word Flikzi learned is wrong
If you notice straight away, delete the word (swipe left on the space bar): Flikzi forgets that it learned it. Otherwise open Flikzi, Typing, Forget learned words. This clears every word, phrase and email address Flikzi learned, where your thumbs land, and the pinyin readings you picked, in every language.
Flikzi doesn't know a Singlish word
Check Singlish words is on: Flikzi, Typing. For a word it still doesn't know, type it. If Flikzi changes it, swipe left on the space bar to get your letters back. After that the word is yours. Singlish
The clipboard keys, the mic, languages or split went away
They are part of Flikzi Pro, which is on for the first 14 days after you install. After that, Flikzi keeps working with one language, and without the split keyboard, voice typing, the clipboard keys, the clipboard history and text shortcuts. Open Flikzi to see where your trial stands, or to get Pro.
The mic above the keys is missing
- It never shows in password, number and phone fields.
- Voice typing is part of Flikzi Pro. After the 14-day trial the mic goes away, unless you keep Pro.
- Check Voice typing in the Flikzi Pro box in the Flikzi app.
The mic says this phone has no voice typing
Flikzi types by voice with speech recognition that runs on the phone itself, and your phone doesn't have it. If the phone has Google voice typing, switch it on in Android's keyboard settings and the mic opens it. That is Google's keyboard, not Flikzi: Google may receive the sound of what you say there, and Flikzi asks once before it opens it. Voice typing
The keyboard is narrow and sits at one side
That is one-handed mode. Tap the upper of the two keys beside the keyboard to put it back to full width, or set Keyboard, One-handed mode to Off in the Flikzi app.
I bought Flikzi Pro, but it isn't on
Open Flikzi's settings: each time they open, Flikzi checks your purchase with Google Play. Make sure the phone is online and signed in to the Google account you bought Pro with. A purchase that's still pending turns Pro on once Google Play confirms it and you open the settings again.
There's a band below the keys
With gesture navigation on newer Android versions, Android draws its own buttons below the keyboard: ⌄ hides it, and the keyboard icon switches keyboards. Flikzi keeps its keys above them, so nothing is covered. On phones that draw no buttons there, the keys go all the way down.
The keys are too small or too big
Open Flikzi, Keyboard, Key height.
The keyboard doesn't split on my foldable
Splitting is part of Flikzi Pro. In the Flikzi Pro box, check Split keyboard is set to Auto or Always. Auto splits only on a wide screen, such as a foldable's inner screen. Foldables and tablets