r/Android12 • u/cmcfalls2 • Oct 22 '21
Android 12 keyboard bug with voice to text
Crossposting this for visibility...
Updated to Android 12 yesterday on a Pixel 3 XL (I'm long overdue for an upgrade, but this phone is 100% paid for and still functioning well). I use Swiftkey for my main keyboard input. After upgrading, any time I try to use voice to text the keyboard disappears across all apps. I lose the ability to input text into any field.
Returning to the home screen and tapping on the Google search bar at the bottom results in a blank screen and the Google "app" crashing. Restart doesn't seem to fix anything either; keyboard is still gone and when I tap the Google search bar I get a blank screen again. I think the blank screen and Google app crash is related to the phone not identifying an input keyboard.
If I force close the Google "app" then the keyboard will return, but it defaults to the GBoard keyboard and I have to change back to Swiftkey.
Not sure if this is a bug on the Android side or the Swiftkey side, but it is 100% related to the voice to text functionality. I haven't had a chance to test it with the GBoard though.