The virtual keyboard on your phone or Android tablet is no longer displayed on the screen? Bad manipulation is surely at the origin of this disappearance. But you can easily make it reappear.

The virtual keyboard on your phone or Android tablet is no longer displayed on the screen? Bad manipulation is surely at the origin of this disappearance. But you can easily make it reappear.

On Android smartphones, it is sometimes enough to press a key so that nothing works as before. By sailing in the settings, it is indeed common to activate or deactivate a function, knowingly or not, before biting your fingers and spending a lot of time finding how to restore the situation. This is, for example, the case with virtual keyboards. Your mobile can embark several: Google’s named Gboard accompanied by Google’s vocal entry-to dictate your messages instead of writing them-that of the manufacturer of your device, but also keyboards that you could add yourself, like Microsoft Swyt Key for example. But he can only use one at a time. And it is enough to inadvertently select a bad keyboard, such as Google’s vocal entry, so that no letter appears on the screen. Disturbing! Here’s how to find your marks.

Rest assured. The keyboard you usually use has neither disappeared nor uninstalled. Here’s how to make it reappear.

• The virtual keyboard only unfolds when necessary. If the app that you have launched in no need to enter text or figures, the virtual keyboard will remain hidden.
• To verify that your keyboard is present, just type in the Google search field on the home screen of your mobile for example.

• Immediately, your keyboard used by default is deployed.

• If you do not have Google’s search field on the home screen of your smartphone, open your SMS app for example, then type in the entry field of a conversation started with a contact. Your keyboard must be displayed automatically. You can choose any application requiring text entry, such as your messaging.

If nothing appears when entering text or the displayed keyboard does not look like the one you usually use at all, some manipulations will allow you to restore a normal situation.

• Going from a virtual keyboard to another can be simpler than you think … Unfortunately! Perform one of the two manipulations described above to reveal the keyboard. Look at the bottom right of the screen. If he appears the icon of a keyboardyou had to inadvertently press it with the palm of your hand.

• However, the option which is then located under the palm of the hand is the Google vocal entry. If it is selected, the icon of a microphone is displayed in place of the usual keyboard. Press the icon of keyboard At the bottom right and choose the virtual keyboard you want to use.

It is also possible that, following poor manipulation, your keyboard was simply disabled. Here’s how to enjoy it again.

• Access the Android settings by sliding your finger from the top to the bottom of the screen. In the notifications pane, press the notch.

• Among all the proposed categories of settings, search for an option Language and seizure Or Language and keyboard. Sometimes it nestles in the menu System Or Global management, at Samsung, or in Additional parametersin Xiaomi for example.

• Choose the menu Keyboards,, Current keyboard or an equivalent, depending on the manufacturers’ overlay, then activate the switch or check the box Faced with the name of the desired keyboard.