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Huawei: Enable or Disable Accented Characters in SwiftKey

Holding down a letter on your Huawei keyboard should bring up a row of accented variants, but if nothing pops up or it happens at the wrong moments, the Accented characters option in SwiftKey has been toggled off or on without you noticing. This affects every letter that has accent variants, like e, n, or u. The setting only controls whether the long-press popup appears at all, not which specific accents get listed.

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Enable or Disable Accented Characters auf Huawei

On Huawei phones running EMUI, letters with accent options show extra characters when you press and hold them on the SwiftKey keyboard. If that popup does not appear, or appears inconsistently, the underlying toggle for accented characters has likely been switched off, either manually or after a keyboard update.

This setting lives inside the keyboard configuration, not in the general language settings, which is why it is easy to miss. It only decides if the long-press popup shows up at all. It does not change which accents exist for a letter or how autocorrect handles accented words.

To check or change it, follow this path:

Open the settingsTap on System & updatesTap on Language & inputTap on SwiftKey KeyboardTap on TypingTap on KeysActivate or deactivate Accented characters

If you type mostly in one language without accents, turning this off can make typing feel slightly faster, since letters register immediately without waiting for a possible long-press. If you regularly write in a language that relies on accented letters, keep it enabled so the popup stays available.

If accents still do not show up after enabling the option, check whether a different keyboard app is set as default, since this setting only applies to SwiftKey.

Frequently asked questions

Check that SwiftKey is actually your active keyboard. If another keyboard app is set as default under Language & input, the SwiftKey setting for Accented characters has no effect.