topic Xperia keyboard doesn't appear in the keyboard settings in 1 Series

Xperia keyboard doesn't appear in the keyboard settings

felixpes — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 10:03:56 GMT

Hi, my Xperia 1 was purchased in HK.

In the keyboard options there's only Xperia Chinese and Xperia Japanese keyboard. How can I install the Xperia English version of the keyboard?

Re: Xperia keyboard doesn't appear in the keyboard settings

NunoSEN2 — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 10:38:46 GMT

Hi @felixpes;

Even the HK version should have came with the Google Gboard keyboard pre-installed, but you can always download it from the Play store.

Re: Xperia keyboard doesn't appear in the keyboard settings

felixpes — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 10:59:39 GMT

Unfortunately I cannot find it in the Google Play either...

Re: Xperia keyboard doesn't appear in the keyboard settings

NunoSEN2 — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 11:14:47 GMT

That's strange @felixpes, can you find and install other keyboard from the Play store like the SwiftKey?

Re: Xperia keyboard doesn't appear in the keyboard settings

felixpes — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 11:29:43 GMT

Thanks for your reply.

I can see Swiftkey in the Google play. And also can see cover themes for Xperia Japanese keyboard.

Re: Xperia keyboard doesn't appear in the keyboard settings

RuneJ — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 11:32:23 GMT

I thought the Xperia Keyboard was discontinued for the Xperia 1 devices?

-I cannot find it in Google Play store either, although I find GBoard fine so I have not missed it.

Re: Xperia keyboard doesn't appear in the keyboard settings

felixpes — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 11:41:28 GMT

The interesting thing is that I was in Japan a few days ago and I had the Xperia keyboard preinstalled on the same device.

Now I had to factory reset the device inorder to resolve some connectivity issues. The connectivity was resolved, but the keyboard has disappeared. Looks like a bug, or a decision to hide the keyboard in certain locations.

Can someone who can see the keyboard in Google Play post a weblink here?

Thanks

Re: Xperia keyboard doesn't appear in the keyboard settings

NunoSEN2 — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 11:46:10 GMT

@felixpes, if you are looking specifically for the Xperia keyboard it ended some devices ago, the keyboard that comes pre installed in Xperia 1 is the Google Gboard, that was the keyboard I was mentioning. Sorry for the confusion.

Re: Xperia keyboard doesn't appear in the keyboard settings

RuneJ — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 12:16:17 GMT

If the software is region-dependant, perhaps the use of a VPN-service would work fine to access different markets?

Re: Xperia keyboard doesn't appear in the keyboard settings

RottenFoxBreath — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 15:25:38 GMT

SwiftKey replaced the Xperia keyboard in 2017.

But you can download it from here!

Re: Xperia keyboard doesn't appear in the keyboard settings

tomo100brt — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 06:33:13 GMT

On XPERIA 1 and XPERIA 5 Gboard is preinstalled. And it is way better than Swiftkey keyboard. Still not good as XPERIA keyboard.

Re: Xperia keyboard doesn't appear in the keyboard settings

Jonas — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 07:18:07 GMT

Hello everyone!

The Xperia keyboard was replaced with Swiftkey starting from the Xperia X-series, however if I'm not mistaken, you could still download the Xperia keyboard from the Google Play store for a while as long as you previously had an Xperia device that had the Xperia keyboard as the default one.

You could then find the Xperia keyboard in the "app library" in the Google Play store since it was installed on your previous device and you could install it that way.

I can't remember exactly how long this worked, but the Xperia keyboard is still available in the Google Play store on earlier devices, such as the Xperia Z5-series but it has not been updated for quite some time.

I never liked Swiftkey and always used a different keyboard, however Gboard works very well and is way closer to the Xperia keyboard than Swiftkey is, at least in my opinion.