Turn On or Off the Trace Keyboard for HTC One M8
Edited by Thor, Alexander Avdeev
Hello! Welcome to VisiHow! This is a tutorial is on how to turn on or off the trace keyboard on the HTC One M8.
Steps
- 1Once the phone is activated, we the lock screen will be shown.To begin, we turn the phone on by pressing the power button located on top of the phone.
Advertisement - 2The lock icon will appear. We swipe up.To unlock the phone, we tap and hold the screen.
Advertisement - 3Now, we need to open the "Settings" menu. To do that, we need to swipe the notification panel down.Once the phone is being unlocked, the home screen and icons at the bottom will be shown.
- 4The notification panel will appear.Tap and hold down the top of the screen and swipe down.
- 5The icon is a white cog icon in the top right-hand corner of the screen. This will open up the "Settings" menu. It will have the "Settings" word in the top left-hand corner of the screen.Tap the settings icon.
- 6There will be "PHONE" written in a grey bar.We scroll down until we get to the "PHONE" section.
- 7There will be an icon next to these words, which is a capital "A" inside of a three-dimensional box.We scroll down until we find "Language & keyboard".
- 8Some options will be shown.We tap "Language & keyboard".
- 9Another menu will be shown.Tap the "HTC Sense Input" and "Keyboard options" section.
- 10This function allows us to type words very quickly just by tapping the screen and then swiping over the other letters in a word. It means that we don't have to actually tap each letter. Sliding is a very fast method of typing, and it is very efficient. The default setting on the HTC One M8, however, for this function is that it turned off. The tick box is empty, and it means that the option is not activated.Tap the "Trace keyboard" and "Slide fingers over letters to enter text" section.
- 11It will turn green and have a white tick inside of it.If we want to activate the "Trace keyboard" option, we tap the tick box.
- 12If we want to turn off the "Trace keyboard" option off, we tap the tick box until it becomes empty.
- 13Now that the setting or function is activated, we need to return to the home screen.We want to turn this function on by activating it to see how it works.
- 14The button looks like a white house. We'll be taken to the home screen.To return to the home screen, we need to press the home screen button located at the bottom of the phone.
- 15The icon has a chat box with three horizontal lines inside of it. Our messages will be shown.We tap the message icon on the home screen.
- 16We choose a message that we can use by tapping it.
- 17We tap the "Add text" input field.
- 18In this example, "Hello" will be typed in.We tap lightly the first letter of the word that we want to write and then swipe our finger to the next letters in the word.
- 19We tap and hold the "H" letter.
- 20Slide the finger over to the next letters.
- 21We are tracing our finger, and the phone is offering us the word that might be used. We can see that the word "Hello" is found and guessed correctly in this example.The phone will find the "Hello" word for us.This concludes our tutorial on how to turn on or off the trace keyboard on the HTC One M8. If you have any questions or comments about this video or about the process that you have seen in this video, then please leave them in the comment section below. We shall answer them for you. Thank you for watching VisiHow! Goodbye!
Video: Turn On or Off the Trace Keyboard for HTC One M8
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