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How to Set Autotext on Android Phones Completely And Easily Without Applications

How to Set Autotext on Android Phones Complete and Easy

Who is not familiar with the autotext feature? This feature, which is well-known through Blackberry Messenger, is able to help us all more efficiently type in long sentences or paragraphs with just a shortcut keyword.

For example, instead of you bothering to write the complete sentence ‘assalamualaikum warahmatullah wabarakatuh’ every time you start a chat with someone, now you can shorten your typing time by setting autotext on your android phone.

You just need to create a new autotext by creating the keyword ‘Assalam’ as a complete sentence shortcut ‘assalamualaikum warahmatullah wabarakatuh’. So, every time you want to type a greeting, you only need to type ‘Assalam’ and Android will automatically type the complete sentence.

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Interesting and very helpful, right? Interested in activating the autotext feature on your android now? Let’s see the steps to create and activate autotext on the following android phone.

The most complete & easiest way to set autotext on an Android phone

You don’t need any application to set autotext on your android phone. Because we only need the Gboard or Google Keyboard feature to do it. Immediately, these are the detailed steps for setting autotext on android.

How to Create New Autotext on Android

  1. Open menu Settings >> Additional Settings >> Language & Input >> Keyboard and Input Methods.
  2. On Keyboard and Input Method tap on option Default Keyboard then select Gboard. How to set autotext on an Android phone
  3. After that on the menu Keyboard Available, select Gboard then select Dictionary >> Personal Dictionary >> B. Indonesia>> and select symbol (+) in the upper right corner of the screen.
  4. Here, my friend can create a new autotext as desired.
  5. In column type word my friend can fill with short shortcut words. And on column Shortcut you can fill in the desired full paragraph/sentence. For more details, you can see the following example: How to set autotext on an Android phone 1
  6. If you have, tap the back / back button and the autotext settings will be automatically saved.
  7. Finished.

The method above is only to make the autotext, friend! In order to use it, you have to set it again to activate the autotext feature. So, on to the next tutorial!

How to Enable Autotext on Android

  1. Go back to the menu Settings >> Additional Settings >> Language & Input >> Keyboard and Input Methods.
  2. On Keyboard and Input Method select Gboard >> Text Correction then turn on option Show Suggestion Strip by swiping the button to the right.
  3. Finished! Buddy can check the autotext feature works or not by typing the shortcut word earlier in a chat application such as whatsapp or line, or via the notes/notes application.

How to turn off Autotext on Android

  1. Enter menu Settings >> Additional Settings >> Language & Input >> Keyboard and Input Methods.
  2. On Keyboard and Input Method select Gboard >> Text Correction then turn off the selection Show Suggestion Strip by swiping the button to the left until the button changes color to gray.

Well, that was a complete tutorial on how to set autotext on an Android phone. Finally, I hope this article will be useful for those of you who read it.