{"id":23001,"date":"2026-07-18T03:45:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T02:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovatenews.site\/index.php\/2026\/07\/18\/gboard-could-soon-stop-adding-spaces-when-you-dont-want-them\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T03:45:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T02:45:44","slug":"gboard-could-soon-stop-adding-spaces-when-you-dont-want-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/innovatenews.site\/index.php\/2026\/07\/18\/gboard-could-soon-stop-adding-spaces-when-you-dont-want-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Gboard could soon stop adding spaces when you don\u2019t want them"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Earlier today, we revealed that Google is working on a potentially major Gboard accessibility feature that could translate sign language captured by your phone\u2019s camera into written text. That has the potential to make a real difference for people who rely on sign language, but it wasn\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n

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Right now, Gboard automatically inserts a space after you tap one of the words in its autocorrect suggestion strip. That is usually handy when you\u2019re continuing a sentence, but it can leave you deleting an unwanted gap when you want to add punctuation or attach something directly to the selected word. Just like almost every aspect of Android keyboards, it\u2019s the kind of thing that some users would ideally like the ability to customize.<\/p>\n

Google appears to agree. While tinkering in the app, we managed to activate a new \u2018Auto-space after suggestions\u2019 toggle in Gboard\u2019s Corrections & suggestions settings. The option lets you decide whether the keyboard should continue adding that space after you choose a suggested word. You can see the toggle in the screenshot below.<\/p>\n

The setting works as expected in our testing. Switching it off stops Gboard from inserting spaces, while leaving it enabled preserves the keyboard\u2019s current behavior.<\/p>\n

The toggle isn\u2019t available yet, and there\u2019s no guarantee Google will roll it out publicly. But if we speculate, given that this looks like a simple bit of extra control for anyone who finds Gboard\u2019s automatic spacing more annoying than helpful, we\u2019d be surprised if it doesn\u2019t make it to a stable version.<\/p>\n

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