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, such as Glide typing, Text correction and Voice typing.
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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
- Tap Search.
- Turn on Show 'Search and more' 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
- Choose the languages that you want.
- Select the layout that you want to use.
- Tap Done.
- 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