Gboard could soon stop adding spaces when you don’t want them

Credit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google is preparing a Gboard setting that will let you disable automatic spaces after suggestions. Gboard currently adds a space automatically after you tap a suggested autocorrect word. We activated the option during our APK teardown, and it worked as expected in testing.

Earlier today, we revealed that Google is working on a potentially major Gboard accessibility feature that could translate sign language captured by your phone’s camera into written text. That has the potential to make a real difference for people who rely on sign language, but it wasn’t the only change we spotted. Google also appears to be preparing a typing option that, while smaller in terms of impact, could prove useful to a far wider group of Gboard users by giving them more control over when the keyboard adds a space.

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