Set up Gboard

After you install Gboard, you can change your keyboard settings and choose your languages.

Download Gboard

On your Android phone or tablet, install Gboard.
On some Android devices, Gboard is already the default keyboard. To make sure that your device has the most recent version, check for updates.

Important: If your device uses Android 8 (Go edition), some of these steps might not work.

Set keyboard options

Change your settings

On your Android phone or tablet, open any app that you can type with, like Gmail or Keep.
Tap where you can enter text.
At the top left of the keyboard, tap Open features menu .
Tap More Settings .
Choose which settings to turn on, like Glide typing, Text correction, and Voice typing.

Add Google Search button

On your Android phone or tablet, open any app that you can type with, like Gmail or Keep.
Tap where you can enter text.
At the top left of the keyboard, tap Open features menu .
Tap More Settings .
Tap Search.
Turn on Show "Search and more" button.

Choose languages & layouts

On your Android phone or tablet, open any app that you can type with, like Gmail or Keep.
Tap where you can enter text.
At the top left of the keyboard, tap Open features menu .
Tap More Settings Languages.
Choose the languages you want.
Select the layout you want to use.
Tap Done.

Find supported languages

Abkhaz
Aborlan
Abron
Acehnese
Acholi
Achomi
Adamawa Fulfulde
Adyghe
Afar
Afrikaans
Ahirani
Ahirani, Transliteration
Ajagbe
Akan
Akoose
Alas
Albanian, Gheg
Albanian, Standard
Albanian, Tosk
Alsatian
Alur
Ambonese Malay
Amdo Tibetan
Amharic
Amis
Anaang
Angika
Arabic (Algeria)
Arabic (Bahrain)
Arabic (Chad)
Arabic (Egypt)
Arabic (Gulf)
Arabic (Iraq)
Arabic (Levant)
Arabic (Libya)
Arabic (Mauritania)
Arabic (Morocco)
Arabic (Oman)
Arabic (Saudi Arabia)
Arabic (Sudan)
Arabic (Tunisia)
Arabic (Yemen)
Aragonese
Arakanese
Armenian
Armenian, Transliteration
Assamese, Assamese
Assamese, Latin
Assamese, Transliteration
Assyrian (Iraq)
Assyrian (Syria)
Asturian
Austro-Bavarian
Avar
Awadhi
Awadhi, Transliteration
Ayacucho Quechua
Aymara (Bolivia)
Aymara (Peru)
Azerbaijani (Azerbaijan)
Azerbaijani (Iran)
Azerbaijani (Russia)
Bagheli
Bagheli, Transliteration
Bagri (India)
Bagri (India), Transliteration
Bagri (Pakistan)
Bagri (Pakistan), Transliteration
Bahamian Creole
Bakhtiari
Balinese, Aksara Bali
Balinese, Latin
Balkan Gagauz Turkish
Balkan Romani (Bulgaria)
Balkan Romani (Macedonia)
Balochi
Balti
Balti, Transliteration
Bambara, Latin
Bambara, N'Ko
Bamum
Bangala
Banggai
Bangka Malay
Bangla (Bangladesh)
Bangla (India), Bengali
Bangla (India), Latin
Bangla (India), Transliteration
Banjar
Baoulé
Basaa
Bashkir
Basque
Batak Mandailing, Surat Batak
Batak Mandailing, Latin
Batak Simalungun, Surat Batak
Batak Simalungun, Latin
Batak Toba
Belarusian
Bemba
Bench, Ge'ez
Bench, Latin
Berom
Betawi
Bhili, Devanagari
Bhili, Devanagari, Transliteration
Bhili, Gujarati
Bhili, Gujarati, Transliteration
Bhojpuri
Bhojpuri, Transliteration
Bishnupriya
Bishnupriya, Transliteration
Bislama
Bodo, Bengali
Bodo, Bengali, Transliteration
Bodo, Devanagari
Bodo, Devanagari, Transliteration
Bodo, Latin
Bosnian, Cyrillic
Bosnian, Latin
Bouyei
Brahui, Arabic
Brahui, Latin
Brahui, Transliteration
Breton
Buginese, Latin
Buginese, Lontara
Buhid
Bukusu
Bulgarian
Bulu-Bene
Bundeli
Bundeli, Transliteration
Burmese
Buryat (Mongolia)
Buryat (Russia)
Cameroon Pidgin
Cape Verdean Creole
Capiznon
Catalan
Cebaara Senoufo
Cebuano
Central Bikol
Central Makhuwa
Central Malay
Chakma
Chaldean Neo-Aramaic
Chamorro
Chavacano
Chechen
Cherokee, Uppercase and Lowercase
Cherokee, Uppercase only
Chhattisgarhi
Chhattisgarhi, Transliteration
Chimborazo Highland Kichwa
Chinese, Cantonese, Traditional
Chinese, Mandarin, Simplified
Chinese, Mandarin, Traditional
Chittagonian
Chittagonian, Transliteration
Choctaw
Chokwe (Angola)
Chokwe (DRC)
Chopi
Church Slavonic
Chuvash
Chuwabu
Classical Syriac
Coptic
Cornish
Corsican
Cree, Latin
Cree, Syllabics
Crimean Tatar, Cyrillic
Crimean Tatar, Latin
Croatian
Cusco Quechua
Cuyonon
Czech
Dagaare
Dagbani
Dakhini
Dan
Dangme
Danish
Dargwa
Dari
Dazaga
Dhatki
Dhivehi
Dhundhari
Dhundhari, Transliteration
Dinka
Jula, Latin
Jula, N'Ko
Dogri, Arabic
Dogri, Arabic, Transliteration
Dogri, Devanagari
Dogri, Devanagari, Transliteration
Dogri, Latin
Dotyali
Dungan
Duri
Dutch (Belgium)
Dutch (Netherlands)
Dzongkha
East Franconian
Eastern Balochi
Eastern Cham, Cham
Eastern Cham, Latin
Eastern Min
Eastern Oromo
Eastern Pwo
Eastern Tamang
Ebira
Edo
Efik
Elhomwe
Emilian
English (Australia)
English (Canada)
English (India)
English (Kenya)
English (Nigeria)
English (Philippines)
English (South Africa)
English (UK)
English (US)
Erzya
Esperanto
Estonian
Ewe
Ewondo
Extremaduran
Fang
Fantse
Farefare
Faroese
Fiji Hindi, Devanagari
Fiji Hindi, Latin
Fijian
Filipino, Baybayin
Filipino, Latin
Finnish
Fon
French (Africa)
French (Belgium)
French (Canada)
French (France)
French (Switzerland)
Friulian
Fula, Adlam
Fula, Latin
Fulfulde (Niger)
Fulfulde (Nigeria)
Gagauz, Cyrillic
Gagauz, Latin
Galician
Gamo
Garhwali
Garhwali, Transliteration
Garo, Bengali
Garo, Latin
Garo, Transliteration
Gayo
Ge'ez
Gedeo
Georgian, Khutsuri
Georgian, Mkhedruli
German (Austria)
German (Belgium)
German (Germany)
German (Luxembourg)
German (Switzerland)
Ghanaian Pidgin
Ghomala
Gilaki
Giryama
Godwari
Godwari, Transliteration
Gogo
Gondi, Devanagari
Gondi, Devanagari, Transliteration
Gondi, Telugu
Gondi, Telugu, Transliteration
Gor
Gorani
Gorontalo
Gourmanché
Greek (Cyprus)
Greek (Greece)
Greek (Greece), Transliteration
Guadeloupean Creole
Guarani
Guianan Creole
Guinea-Bissau Creole
Gujarati, Gujarati
Gujarati, Latin
Gujarati, Transliteration
Gujari (India)
Gujari (India), Transliteration
Gujari (Pakistan)
Gujari (Pakistan), Transliteration
Gulay
Gusii
Guyanese Creole
Ha
Hadiyya, Ge’ez
Hadiyya, Latin
Haitian Creole
Hakha Chin
Hakka
Halbi, Devanagari
Halbi, Devanagari, Transliteration
Halbi, Odia
Halbi, Odia, Transliteration
Hani
Hanunuo
Harauti
Harauti, Transliteration
Haryanvi
Haryanvi, Transliteration
Hausa (Ghana)
Hausa (Nigeria)
Hawaiian
Hawaiian Pidgin
Hawu
Haya
Hazaragi
Hebrew
Hehe
Hiligaynon
Hill Mari
Hindi, Devanagari
Hindi, Latin / Hinglish
Hindi, Transliteration
Hiri Motu
Hmong
Hmong Daw
Hmu
Hungarian
Hunsrik
Iban
Ibibio
Icelandic
Igala
Igbo
Iloko
Indonesian
Indus Kohistani
Ingush
Interlingua
International Phonetic Alphabet
Inuktitut, Latin
Inuktitut, Syllabics
Irish
Isan
Isoko
Italian (Italy)
Italian (Switzerland)
Itawit
Iu Mien
Izon
Jamaican Patois
Jambi Malay
Japanese
Javanese, Aksara Jawa
Javanese, Banyumasan
Javanese, Latin
Jingpho
K'iche'
Kabardian
Kabiye
Kachi Koli
Kadazandusun
Kafa
Kalaallisut
Kalam Kohistani
Kalmyk Oirat
Kamba
Kambaata, Ge'ez
Kambaata, Latin
Kangri
Kankanaey
Kannada, Kannada
Kannada, Latin
Kannada, Transliteration
Kannauji
Kannauji,Transliteration
Kanuri
Kapampangan
Karachay-Balkar
Karakalpak, Cyrillic
Karakalpak, Latin
Karay-a
Karelian
Karo
Kashmiri, Arabic
Kashmiri, Arabic, Transliteration
Kashmiri, Devanagari
Kashmiri, Devanagari, Transliteration
Kashmiri, Latin
Kashubian
Kazakh, Cyrillic
Kedah Malay
Kekchi
Kelantan-Pattani Malay
Khams Tibetan
Khasi
Khmer
Khmer Surin
Khmu
Khorasani Turkic, Arabic
Khorasani Turkic, Latin
Khowar
Kiga
Kikongo-Kituba
Kikuyu
Kimbundu
Kinyarwanda
Kipsigis
Kiribati
Kirmanjki
Kituba
Kohistani Shina
Kok Borok, Bengali
Kok Borok, Bengali, Transliteration
Kok Borok, Latin
Kölsch
Komering
Komi-Permyak
Komi-Zyrian
Kongo
Konkani, Devanagari
Konkani, Devanagari, Transliteration
Konkani, Kannada
Konkani, Kannada, Transliteration
Konkani, Latin
Konkomba
Konzo
Koongo
Korean
Korku
Korku, Transliteration
Koronadal Blaan
Krio
Kuhmareyi
Kui
Kumaoni
Kumaoni, Transliteration
Kumyk
Kurdish (Iran), Arabic
Kurdish (Iraq), Arabic
Kurdish, Latin
Kurukh, Devanagari
Kurukh, Devanagari, Transliteration
Kurukh, Malayalam
Kutai Malay
Kutchi
Kwanyama
Kyrgyz
Ladin
Ladino
Ladino (Israel)
Lahu
Lak
Laki
Lakota
Lama
Lambadi, Devanagari
Lambadi, Devanagari, Transliteration
Lambadi, Kannada
Lambadi, Telugu
Lambadi, Telugu, Transliteration
Lampung Api
Lango
Lao
Lao, Transliteration
Latgalian
Latin
Latvian
Ledo Kaili
Lendu
Lepcha, Lepcha
Lepcha, Tibetan
Lezgian (Azerbaijan)
Lezgian (Russia)
Ligurian
Limbu, Devanagari
Limbu, Limbu
Limburgish
Lingala (Angola)
Lingala (DRC)
Lisu
Lithuanian
Livonian
Livvi-Karelian
Lojban
Lombard
Lomwe
Low Saxon
Lower Sorbian
Luba-Kasai
Luba-Katanga
Luganda
Lugbara
Luo
Luxembourgish
Ma'anyan
Maasai
Maay Maay
Maba, Arabic
Maba, Latin
Macedonian
Madurese
Magahi (India)
Magahi (India), Transliteration
Magahi (Nepal)
Maguindanao
Maharashtrian Konkani
Mahasu Pahari
Maithili, Devanagari
Maithili, Latin
Maithili, Transliteration
Makassar Malay
Makassarese, Latin
Makassarese, Lontara
Makhuwa-Meetto
Makonde
Malagasy
Malay (Brunei), Arabic
Malay (Brunei), Latin
Malay (Malaysia), Arabic
Malay (Malaysia), Latin
Malay, Singapore, Latin
Malayalam, Latin
Malayalam, Malayalam
Malayalam, Transliteration
Maltese
Malvi
Malvi, Transliteration
Mamasa
Manado Malay
Mandar
Mandeali
Mandeali, Transliteration
Mandinka
Manggarai
Manipuri, Bengali
Manipuri, Bengali, Transliteration
Manipuri, Latin
Manipuri, Meitei
Manipuri, Meitei, Transliteration
Manx
Maori
Maranao
Marathi, Devanagari
Marathi, Latin
Marathi, Transliteration
Marba
Marwari (India)
Marwari (India), Transliteration
Marwari (Pakistan)
Marwari (Pakistan), Transliteration
Masaba
Massa
Mazandarani
Meadow Mari
Mehri
Melanau
Mende
Meru
Merwari
Merwari, Transliteration
Mewari
Mewari, Transliteration
Minangkabau
Mingrelian
Mizo
Moba
Moksha
Mon
Mongolian
Mongolian, Transliteration
Mongondow
Montenegrin, Cyrillic
Montenegrin, Latin
Mossi
Muna
Mundang
Mundari, Bengali
Mundari, Devanagari
Mundari, Latin
Mundari, Odia
Muong
Musi
Nahuatl
Nande
Nandi
Nauruan
Navajo
Ndau
Ndonga
Neapolitan
Nenets
Nepali (India), Devanagari
Nepali (India), Latin
Nepali (India), Transliteration
Nepali (Nepal), Devanagari
Newari
Ngaju
Ngambay
Ngbaka Gbaya
Nias
Nigerian Pidgin
Nimadi
Nimadi, Transliteration
Niuean
Nkore
North Moluccan Malay
Northern Betsimisaraka Malagasy
Northern Grebo
Northern Hindko
Northern Hindko, Transliteration
Northern Luri
Northern Min
Northern Ndebele
Northern Sami
Northern Sotho
Northern Thai
Norwegian Bokmål
Norwegian Nynorsk
Ntcham
Nung
Nuosu, Latin
Nuosu, Yi
Nupe
Nyakyusa
Nyamwezi
Nyanja
Nyaturu
Nyoro
Occitan
Odia, Latin
Odia, Odia
Odia, Transliteration
Ojibwe, Latin
Ojibwe, Syllabics
Oromo
Osage
Ossetian
Pa'O Karen
Pahari-Pothwari
Pahari-Potwari, Transliteration
Palantine German
Pamona
Pangasinan
Papiamento (Aruba)
Papiamentu (Bonaire and Curaçao)
Papuan Malay
Parauk Wa
Parkari Koli
Pashto
Pashto, Transliteration
Persian
Persian, Transliteration
Picard
Piedmontese
Plateau Malagasy
Pokot
Polish
Pontic Greek
Portuguese (Africa)
Portuguese (Angola)
Portuguese (Brazil)
Portuguese (Macau)
Portuguese (Portugal)
Pulaar
Punjabi, Arabic
Punjabi, Arabic, Transliteration
Punjabi, Gurmukhi
Punjabi, Gurmukhi, Transliteration
Punjabi, Latin
Qashqai
Quechua
Rangpuri, Bengali
Rangpuri, Devanagari
Rangpuri, Devanagari, Transliteration
Rejang
Réunion Creole
Rinconada Bikol
Rohingya
Romanian (Moldova)
Romanian (Romania)
Romansh
Rundi
Russian (Belarus)
Russian (Kyrgyzstan)
Russian (Russia)
Rusyn
Sabah Malay
Sadri
Saint Lucian Creole French
Sakalava Malagasy
Sakha
Samoan
Samogitian
Sango
Sanskrit, Devanagari
Sanskrit, Latin
Sanskrit, Transliteration
Santali, Bengali
Santali, Bengali, Transliteration
Santali, Devanagari
Santali, Latin
Santali, Ol Chiki
Santali, Ol Chiki, Transliteration
Sar
Saraiki, Sindhi Arabic
Saraiki, Sindhi Arabic, Transliteration
Saraiki, Urdu Arabic
Saraiki, Urdu Arabic, Transliteration
Sardinian
Sasak, Aksara Bali
Sasak, Latin
Sassarese
Saurashtra
Scots
Scottish Gaelic
Sebat Bet Gurage
Sena
Serbian, Cyrillic
Serbian, Latin
Serer
Sesotho (Lesotho)
Sesotho (South Africa)
Seychellois Creole
Sgaw Karen
Shan
Shekhawati
Shekhawati, Transliteration
Sherpa
Shina
Shina, Transliteration
Shona
Siberian Tatar
Sicilian
Sidamo
Silesian
Silt'e, Ge’ez
Silt'e, Latin
Sindhi, Arabic
Sindhi, Arabic, Transliteration
Sindhi, Devanagari
Sindhi, Devanagari, Transliteration
Sindhi, Latin
Sinhala
Sinhala, Transliteration
Slovak
Slovenian
Soga
Somali
Songe
Soninke
South Bolivian Quechua
Southeastern Pashayi
Southern Balochi
Southern Balochi, Transliteration
Southern Betsimisaraka Malagasy
Southern Hindko
Southern Hindko, Transliteration
Southern Kurdish
Southern Luri
Southern Min, POJ
Southern Min, TL
Southern Ndebele
Southern Oromo
Southern Thai
Southwestern Pashayi
Spanish (Argentina)
Spanish (Latin America)
Spanish (Mexico)
Spanish (Spain)
Spanish (US)
Sranan
Sukuma
Sundanese, Arabic
Sundanese, Latin
Sundanese, Sundanese
Supyire
Surgujia
Surjapuri
Surjapuri, Transliteration
Swahili
Swazi (South Africa)
Swazi (Swaziland)
Swedish (Finland)
Swedish (Sweden)
Swiss German
Sylheti, Bengali
Sylheti, Latin
Sylheti, Syloti Nagri
Tabasaran
Tahitian
Tai Dam, Latin
Tai Dam, Tai Viet
Tai Lue
Tai Nuea
Tajik
Talysh (Azerbaijan)
Talysh (Iran)
Talysh (Russia)
Tamazight, Latin
Tamazight, Tifinagh
Tamil (India), Latin
Tamil (India), Tamil
Tamil (India), Transliteration
Tamil (Singapore)
Tamil (Sri Lanka)
Tandroy-Mahafaly Malagasy
Tatar
Tati
Tausug
Tay
Telugu, Latin
Telugu, Telugu
Telugu, Transliteration
Temne
Teso
Tetela
Tetum
Thai
Tibetan
Tigrinya (Eritrea)
Tigrinya (Ethiopia)
Tiv
Tok Pisin
Tokelauan
Tongan
Tooro
Toraja-Sa'dan
Torwali
Trinidadian Creole English
Tsonga
Tswa
Tswana (Botswana)
Tswana (South Africa)
Tulu
Tulu, Transliteration
Tumbuka
Turkana
Turkish (Cyprus)
Turkish (Turkey)
Turkmen
Tuvaluan
Tuvan
Udmurt
Ukrainian
Umbundu
Upper Saxon
Upper Sorbian
Urdu (India)
Urdu (India), Latin
Urdu (India), Transliteration
Urdu (Pakistan)
Urum
Uyghur
Uzbek, Cyrillic
Uzbek, Latin
Vai
Valencian
Varhadi
Varhadi, Transliteration
Vasavi, Devanagari
Vasavi, Gujarati
Veluws
Venda
Venetian
Veps
Vietnamese
Vlax Romani (Albania)
Vlax Romani (Romania)
Võro
Wagdi
Wagdi, Transliteration
Walloon
Wanetsi
Waray
Wayuu
Welsh
West Flemish
Western Balochi
Western Cham, Cham
Western Cham, Latin
Western Frisian
Western Kayah, Kayah Li
Wolaytta
Wolof
Xaasongaxango
Xhosa
Xong
Yaka
Yao
Yiddish (Israel)
Yiddish (US)
Yiddish (US), Transliteration
Yongbei Zhuang
Yoruba
Youjiang Zhuang
Yucatec Maya
Zande
Zarma
Zaza
Zeelandic
Zhuang
Zulu