Like other manufacturers, Samsung also sells its smartphones and tablets with a proprietary keyboard pre-installed, however many users prefer the always excellent SwiftKey or Gboard to the Samsung Keyboard and those who opt for the Google keyboard are experiencing an annoying bug.
Samsung, Gboard and that unsolved bug
What the bug consists of is soon said: on various Samsung smartphones and tablets, changing the volume of the keys in the Gboard Settings menu does not produce the desired effect. No, because the keyboard, regardless of the volume that the user has set in the dedicated menu, always adjusts to the volume selected at the system level.
This means that Samsung users who run into the bug are precluded from possibilities such as, for example, setting different volume levels for multimedia content playback and for keypress feedback.
At present, the bug is unsolved, however, it does not seem to show up on devices from other brands. Of course, even on smartphones and tablets of other brands, if the Silent is activated, the volume of the keys is also reset, however, the possibility remains – by way of example – to keep the keyboard volume to a minimum, so as to have only slight feedback, and crank up only that to play multimedia content.
Since, according to reports from some users, this Gboard bug on Samsung Galaxy devices has been present for a few years now, we just have to hope that the manufacturers will intervene to remedy it. Do you own a Samsung and use the Gboard keyboard? Have you noticed this problem too?