After a reboot, a lot of phones can only use the device’s default keyboard app for entering the unlock pin/password.
If you’ve removed or disabled it, you can get into a situation where you have no keyboard at all, and a delightful chicken-and-egg situation of needing a keyboard you don’t have until after unlocking the device to enter the code to unlock the device.
(A USB keyboard will let you escape this, for what that’s worth)
All I want is for gboard to stop hijacking my default keyboard. I set futo for a reason and I meant it.
You could just uninstall it.
wrong
Edit: just noticed it also keeps turning on background mobile data usage dispite me having explicitly disabled that.
Can’t you still remove this stuff via ADB?
Yes, but you shouldn’t.
After a reboot, a lot of phones can only use the device’s default keyboard app for entering the unlock pin/password.
If you’ve removed or disabled it, you can get into a situation where you have no keyboard at all, and a delightful chicken-and-egg situation of needing a keyboard you don’t have until after unlocking the device to enter the code to unlock the device.
(A USB keyboard will let you escape this, for what that’s worth)
I removed (not really, it shows “Not installed for this user” in All apps list) GBoard using Canta and nothing is happening. I use Yandex Keyboard.
yes, you can. I think it was these 2 lines ☞
adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.touchtype.swiftkey
adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.swiftkey.swiftkeyconfigurator
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Thank you, I will try
That’s weird. What phone and OS? I’ve had to explicitly install it on my phones for as long as I can remember: https://i.imgur.com/8MlcpuK.png
Maybe you have to disable it as a keyboard in settings first?
This is a pixel 8 running stock android 15. There is no option to disable unlike other preinstalled apps.