Samsung keyboard questions

[StephD68]

• Hi everyone! This is my first time posting here. My name is Stephanie and my question is about the task bar above the keyboard on my Samsung Galaxy Tab s9 FE. I am disabled and use a mouthstick on the touchscreen to navigate online and do everything else on my tablet. I like to use emoji icons in my messages and this poses a problem for me as the emoji button is located on the far left of the bar. See, the s9's screen isn't as responsive to my stick as I'd like. If I tap with my stick at an angle nothing happens, it's plenty responsive if I tap anywhere holding it straight at an object or key. I was wondering if it were possible to rearrange the order of the buttons to bring the emoji one closer to me.

• I was also wondering if there are any plans for Samsung to make it possible to keep the assistant menu open to the cursor while the keyboard is open. This would be a great help to me, personally, and would solve my emoji issue, too. I don't know if anyone from Samsung will read this message of mine, but I wanted to say thank you for the accessibility features that are included on both my Samsung tablets. I've not seen anything accessibility-wise like yours provided by any of the other electronic companies that I've bought devices from over the 30+ years since I have been a consumer. The thoughtfulness behind this measure to ensure that the disabled community can use your products as independently as possible shines through, and means more to me than I could ever convey in these mere words, but I sincerely thank the staff members behind the creation of the assistant menu. 

Warm regards,

Stephanie 

[realaud]

You can press, hold, and drag items on the toolbar to the position you find most convenient for you. If you download and switch to Google keyboard, the emoji button is not only on the toolbar, but also next to the space bar.

[StephD68]

Thank you so much! 🙏😊

[Benjoh]

There should be one in the type space on right ( the smile face). Click on that and it will give you a list of different emojis Gifs, etc.

[Benjoh]

I was replying to young lady who needed emotional help so maybe my suggestion could help her.

[Benjoh]

I have a question. My keyboard on my phone is Samsung. I already have it as big as I can. Why can't the keyboard letters be bigger for people? When I text, I hit letters next to the one I am trying to touch. Then I to go back and correct my misspelled words. Then if this is not enough and disheartened for an older person, A I goes behind you just as you hit send and retypes what you just corrected. Is there a fix to getting rid of AI on keyboards?

[realaud]

There are several things you can try, none of them really ideal.  You can download another keyboard from the Play store, or you can rotate to landscape mode where the keyboard stretches out and the letters are bigger, or you can use a rubber tipped stylus to tap the letters, or you can use speech to text--which most people do.

[Benjoh]

Tried that and I can see the text on top to see who I or what I am replying to. I just think AI needs to be kicked off the keyboard and quick trying to predict that spelled words wrong after I already corrected them.

[realaud]

I said none of my suggestions were ideal.  It's not the AI that's doing the re-correct, it's ordinary auto-correct, and it's always done that, which is why I add stuff to my dictionary.  I also have autocorrect turned off.  Spell check is good enough for me.