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Android 10 update - extra keyboard button
- Thread starter thaKing
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Can you post a screenshot? I've been on Android 10 for several months and it made no difference to my keyboards, but without knowing what it is you are seeing it's hard to say very much.
A button to lower the keyboard. That appears as part of standard Android navigation bar, and did in Android 9 as well. It's not actually part of the keyboard.
So the interesting thing here is that you don't have the rest of the nav bar. I guess it's a Samsung thing to hide it, but it seems strange to hide the navigation elements but leave the bar with just this button. I suspect it's a foul up: taking Samsung's elements and Google's and combining them badly (but I note that it doesn't have the keyboard selector button, which I'd also expect to appear on that bar, so I don't know what they are doing here).
Have you tried changing navigation button/gesture options? I'm being wildly optimistic here but hoping that this is the result of old setting and new software, so changing the navigation option and then changing back might fix something.
Otherwise I'm afraid we'll have to wait and see whether other Samsung owners have something they can add, since this looks like a poor mixing of Samsung ideas and standard Android.
To show what standard Android 10 looks like I've attached screenshots with the gesture navigation option on a Pixel: the "lower keyboard" and "keyboard selector" buttons also appear with the 2-button and 3-button navigation but I've not been able to produce a screenshot showing that as the keyboard is hidden when I try to take a screenshot...
So the interesting thing here is that you don't have the rest of the nav bar. I guess it's a Samsung thing to hide it, but it seems strange to hide the navigation elements but leave the bar with just this button. I suspect it's a foul up: taking Samsung's elements and Google's and combining them badly (but I note that it doesn't have the keyboard selector button, which I'd also expect to appear on that bar, so I don't know what they are doing here).
Have you tried changing navigation button/gesture options? I'm being wildly optimistic here but hoping that this is the result of old setting and new software, so changing the navigation option and then changing back might fix something.
Otherwise I'm afraid we'll have to wait and see whether other Samsung owners have something they can add, since this looks like a poor mixing of Samsung ideas and standard Android.
To show what standard Android 10 looks like I've attached screenshots with the gesture navigation option on a Pixel: the "lower keyboard" and "keyboard selector" buttons also appear with the 2-button and 3-button navigation but I've not been able to produce a screenshot showing that as the keyboard is hidden when I try to take a screenshot...
thaKing
Android Enthusiast
Since the back button or gesture hides the keyboard a separate button for that is rather redundant.
I wish Google gave me the option (but Google, despite their record of poor design decisions, always think they know best).
I wish Google gave me the option (but Google, despite their record of poor design decisions, always think they know best).