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Cam-S

The keyboard on my XA is the Chinese keyboard. Is this normal? It supports English, but I'd like to get rid of it if possible. However, when I go into Settings to change it to English, there's only the Chinese keyboard available, and that is greyed out. (Language is set to English.)

Is there no way of changing?

CameronT

Hi @Cam-S,

When you go to Settings > Language & input > Current Keyboard, there should be an option for "More Keyboards". If you tap on that, you can enable and disable the various keyboards in the phone.

Does that help?

Cam-S

Perhaps I didn't make it clear enough. When I go to 'More Keyboards', there is only the Chinese keyboard available, and that option is greyed out.

CameronT

That's very strange. Under Settings > Apps, see if you can find the Swiftkey keyboard and see if it is disabled.

If it's not there at all, you may need to perform a software repair using Xperia Companion.

Neo2017

hey, I know exactly what you're talking about. it appears as ' Xperia Chinese keyboard ', right? mine has the same. seems like you're not only the one. I don't think you can get rid of it.

in my case, I disabled ' SwiftKey keyboard ' by accident, so there was absolutely no way to type in English (because there was no English keyboard), unless I use Chinese keyboard at that time. since I'm not Chinese, I kinda freaked out. then, I simply got ' gboard ' from google. eventually, I realized that my ' SwiftKey keyboard ' was disabled, so I enabled it and I got the English keyboard back. phew.

I live in North America, so it's obviously my xperia xa is for North American market model. however, there's no ' Xperia English keyboard ' built-in. it doesn't make any sense at all. cearly, sony simply put ' SwiftKey keyboard ' on xperia xa for North American market model and didn't bother. interesting, huh?