How to use the Gboard floating keyboard on big screen mobiles

Having a big screen mobile is useful to watch or play on it. No doubt. But it can be a real pain to carry out other tasks like typing with one hand. And it is that having more width of the mobile than the length of the big toe is not very practical. However, there are Google engineers to provide solutions. The last one comes from the hand of Gboard or the Google keyboard, an application that now adapts to more needs of different users such as creating a floating mini keyboardVery comfortable to write with one hand.

This is not a new feature. Other keyboards like SwiftKey have already had it for some time. In addition, some media had already echoed this same Gboard function a few weeks ago. However, it is now that starts to be seen among Android mobile users You should already know that Google launches its news in stages, so it is likely that is yet to arrive at your terminal. Be patient and check for possible updates through the Google Play Store.

How to activate the floating keyboard

You can check if you already have the function or activate it directly, following a few simple steps between the mobile settings. Once the Google keyboard is open in any application (a WhatsApp conversation, for example), you just have to click on the G icon in the upper left corner .

This displays the extra keyboard options. Thus, instead of showing letters and numbers, we can find functions such as GIFs, the Google translator, or even a color palette. If we press the ellipses we arrive at a new submenu with even more features. This is where the floating keyboard should be located, with its own icon. When clicking on this option, it is activated and the keyboard is displayed independently above the current screen.

With this we already have a smaller keyboard that we should be able to control with a single finger in a simple way. The good thing is that, as it is floating, we can take it anywhere on the screen You just have to keep pressing the icon under the keyboard and drag your finger wherever you want .Also, if this floating format is still uncomfortable, we can always click on the icon to move it and thus activate the size control. In this way, sliding your finger from its corners, we can enlarge or shrink it to a more appropriate size.

This floating keyboard does not lose in functions It only adapts its size and design to continue moving through applications comfortably without it disappearing from the screen. It maintains letters and numbers, and also its GIF browser. It's all still there, but with a slightly different look and convenient functionality for swiping from one side of the screen to the other.