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HTC’s TouchPal Keyboard Starts Showing Ads, Here’s How To Opt Out

TouchPal Keyboard 2

The TouchPal keyboard, which HTC has included as the default keyboard on a wide variety of its phones (including the latest HTC U11) has started showing ads. Understandably, users are not happy about it.

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HTC’s TouchPal Keyboard Showing Ads

The news came from two Reddit posts, well, these Redditors were the owners (of course) and wanted to see if others were facing similar issues or not. The problem seems to arise from the fact that TouchPal’s usage license with HTC may have expired.

TouchPal Keyboard 1Switching to a new third-party or native Google keyboard is that you will have to add all the dictionary suggestions once again. To all those HTC owners, who are facing this ad problem, there are alternative keyboard apps and one among them is GBoard Keyboard. It supports every other feature you want in a keyboard.

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How To Default Keyboard App?

To change your default TouchPal keyboard to GBoard keyboard (let’s assume), head on to Settings > Language and input > Keyboard and input methods > select your new downloaded keyboard (GBoard) from the list.

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Not to forget, you do need to uninstall your TouchPal keyboard to use the new third party keyboard. Well, if you don’t want to hassle yourself, you may need to wait until HTC comes up with a solution, they should release an update soon.

Download GBoard Keyboard Via Play Store

Featured Image Credits: AndroidPolice


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