How do I get rid of this 2nd keyboard bar?

[PhillyForensics]

My text input line suddenly split from the emojis and insert buttons line, taking up two rows now instead of one. Does anyone know how to remove this? I can't seem to find it in keyboard settings and resetting to default keyboard settings didn't remove it either.

[tc8510]

Switch to Gboard

[Jupis]

I was having this same problem! Gboard fixed it. Unfortunately I seemed to have messed up other things in my attempts to fix it before I found this post. Oh well.

[PhillyForensics]

I just tried switching to Gboard, it didn't fix it for me.

[Jupis]

I cleared my cache too. But then messages acted weird, I restarted my phone, it updated again, and now I'm back to the second bar. I had one bright, hopeful moment. Looks like it's here for a bit at least.

[Members_XMMGzNv]

Gboard is slow for me

[buckethead_408]

Even if you switched to gboard, it stays. It's the Google app. New look.

[swtaddi]

I have the same thing happening and I hate it. GBoard and SwiftKey are also doing it. I wish there was a way to remove that extra bar.

[GaryB82 · Accepted solution]

You can't google added it in the last update, and it there too stay until google decides to remove it but they put it there for a reason, so it's most likely staying

[userpgc6k6RVEs]

Same issue here. Super annoying