Microphone Icon on Keyboard - How Can I Get it to Stay There?!

[AC Question]

Hi all,

Not sure if it was something I did... but there is no Microphone Icon on my keyboard anymore. I just see a little 'settings' icon next to the spacebar. When I hold it down... I do see the microphone icon... but I want it to appear right on the keyboard without having to go into anything.

How can I make this happen?

Thank you thank you!
Kim

 

[SpookDroid]

Hi Kim,

What phone do you have and which keyboard are you using? The stock one or did you install a 3rd party one? Most keyboards handle this differently, but the approach would be the same: Going into the layout settings and selecting this key to be always visible. But not all keyboards CAN do this.

For instance, the Samsung one on a few devices will always stay on the last option you selected. So, if you used the Settings, that's the last button you used and the one that stays there. But if you long-press it, the other options should appear, and if you select the voice feature, then that's the one that'll be in that button the next time you fire up the keyboard to type.