Common Galaxy Note 9 Keyboard Problems & How to Fix Them

Galaxy Note 9 Keyboard Lag

As usual, we’re already seeing complaints about keyboard lag. A phone this powerful should run butter smooth. Personally, I just downloaded GBoard and use that on my Note 9. If your Note 9 can’t keep up with your fast typing, and it seems like it’s lagging, you know what we mean. Typically this fixes itself, but if not, try our trick below.

Go into Settings > General Management > Language & Input > On-screen Keyboard > Samsung Keyboard and scroll to the very bottom. Now, select “Reset to Default Settings” and then tap the “Reset keyboard settings” option too.

This will revert any and all changes you’ve made to the keyboard. Or, wipe everything out even if you never changed anything. This will erase any settings or customization, but it’s actually your last resort for almost EVERY problem on this list.

Galaxy Note 9 Autocorrect Problems

Next up we’ll try to fix the longest running joke in the mobile world — autocorrect fails. Samsung’s keyboard learns from your typing habits over time, and gradually get more accurate and predicts words better. However, occasionally the exact opposite happens. In fact, a lot of the time autocorrect ruins a perfectly normal word or sentence. Doing more harm than good.

If you try typing “to/too”, “home” or “come”, you might get “top”, “hone”, and “cone” instead. That’s the autocorrect feature failing, so here’s how to fix it.

Simply turn off autocorrect, or change the settings shown above. Go back to your keyboard settings following the instructions we mentioned earlier, and change auto spell check and auto-replace. By turning this off the phone won’t automatically replace words and mess up your sentences.

Keyboard Predictions Not Appearing

Additionally, sometimes you want those autocorrections or predictions, but you don’t see them. This is a problem too, and a frustrating one. This also fixes the double-space problem people get on Galaxy keyboards.

Go to Settings > General Management > Language & input > On-screen Keyboard > Samsung and look through the settings list. Make sure “Predictive Text” is enabled, and try toggling it off and back on. Sometimes it just gets stuck. In our last step you turned off auto-replace, make sure you didn’t uncheck predictive text at the same time.

And finally, you’ll also see “Auto spacing” in this menu, which inserts a space automatically after you add a word using predictive text. When you choose a predicted word or hit spacebar to use the highlighted word, the software adds a space for you. Then, you added a space yourself out of habit. That’s where the double-space is coming from.

Disable auto spacing or turn off predictive text completely.

Galaxy Note 9 Keyboard Sounds

If you were expecting keyboard sounds but they’re missing here’s how to turn them back on. Additionally, follow these steps to turn off keyboard sounds so your phone isn’t making a ton of noise and bothering people near you.

For this step, we’re going to general phone settings, not the keyboard settings. Pull down the notification bar and tap the gear-shaped settings button. Then navigate to Sounds & Vibration > and scroll down the Keyboard sound. Make sure this isn’t turned off. Flip the switch on, and your keyboard sounds should come back.

You might not hear keyboard sounds if the phone is in silent mode too. Don’t forget to check that. Press the volume up button and make sure your Galaxy Note 9 isn’t in silent or vibrate mode.

Note 9 Keyboard Typing & Swiping Problems

If you’re experiencing random problems in general, or are having a hard time swiping to type on the Galaxy Note 9, there are a few things we can try. First, make sure swipe or gesture typing is turned on in your keyboard settings.

However, the biggest problem with the Galaxy Note 9 keyboard, again, is the screen protector. Do you have a screen protector on your phone? Thanks to the curved screen some of them don’t fit right. As a result, some swipes or taps don’t register because the curve doesn’t match your phone. You think it’s the keyboard, but it’s actually just your screen protector. Obviously, this isn’t ideal, but take it off and try again. Or, turn up sensitivity as we mentioned earlier in this article.

Replace the Galaxy Note 9 Keyboard

And finally, our last tip, replace your keyboard. There are dozens of replacements on the Play Store, including Google’s excellent keyboard for Android. Replacement keyboards typically have more options, better controls, and tons of customization options.

For starters, check out this list of the best third-party keyboards for Android. Try one of those, or just get Gboard, by Google. Here’s a guide to changing the Galaxy S9 keyboard. Follow those same steps on the Galaxy Note 9. Google’s keyboard won’t have as many problems, gives you more options and a better experience.

While you’re here learn how to disable the Note 9 always-on display, get better battery life, or follow this guide to fix other common Note 9 problems. Good luck typing on your phablet.