Samsung Keyboard needs to add one simple yet invaluable feature

Last updated: June 20th, 2021 at 22:48 UTC+01:00

Samsung Keyboard, like all of Samsung'south mobile apps, is packed with a variety of features. Swipe-to-blazon, one-handed manner, emojis, themes, predictive text, enough of customization options for the keyboard'due south layout, and more are all part of Samsung'due south keyboard app for Milky way phones and tablets. As someone who regularly switches between unlike Milky way devices, I tend to utilise Samsung Keyboard a lot of the time.

I do that despite preferring Google's Gboard, mainly because it's a pain to switch keyboards every time I start using a new phone, and because my basic typing skills are quite good no matter which keyboard app I employ. However, the absence of one unproblematic yet invaluable characteristic on Samsung Keyboard frustrates me to no end, and that is the ability to retrieve a dedicated number pad manually when you desire it.

Like all keyboard apps, Samsung Keyboard has a dedicated number pad that shows up when y'all tap input fields that only have numbers, like when y'all're entering your credit card details. But different other keyboard apps, Samsung Keyboard doesn't take any option to manually access that dedicated number pad. And that can get frustrating. You tin add a number row at the top of the keyboard, but null beats the convenience of the skillful old characteristic phone-manner number pad.

In instance yous're wondering, this is the number pad I'yard talking virtually:

Samsung Keyboard number pad

Again, information technology'due south a simple feature, and it's surprising that Samsung Keyboard doesn't have one because Samsung is well known for cramming all sorts of functionality into its apps and its phones and tablets. Of course, some will think this is a non-issue, and that's fine. For me, though, non having manual admission to a dedicated number pad is the just thing that's missing from Samsung Keyboard, and I would love for Samsung to fix that. Maybe it could exercise that with the upcoming 1 UI 4.0 update? Time volition tell.

What keyboard app practice yous use on your Galaxy phone or tablet?