A hidden gem in Gboard on Android

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Few issues convey me as a lot geeky pleasure as uncovering intelligent new methods to save time with textual content enter on Android. And for my cash, no keyboard comes near the extent of consistency, high quality, and caliber of options as Google's personal Gboard Android keyboard.

Effectively, my fellow efficiency-obsessed earthling, have I bought simply the tasty deal with to share you with you immediately. It is a super-handy trick I stumbled onto just lately while speaking with my fellow people from my handheld Android cellphone equipment.

It is not technically about textual content enter, thoughts you, however it completely ties into the subject of tapping out ideas and sharing vital data in your Android cellphone companion. And it'll completely prevent steps and shave treasured seconds off of your each day Android dance.

So right here it's: The following time you encounter a picture you need to connect to an e mail or perhaps ship in a messaging thread someplace, you'll be able to merely copy it after which permit Gboard to maintain the picture on standby and able to paste in virtually anyplace you need — as an attachment to an e mail, an merchandise inside a messaging thread, or perhaps even an addition to a doc you are modifying while jogging in your favourite exercise onesie.

From there, it is yet another quick faucet throughout the Gboard Android interface to slap that picture into no matter venue you want, everytime you want it. And better of all? It takes solely about 20 seconds of setup after which one other 10 seconds of noggin coaching to get your self prepared for a lifetime of second-saving satisfaction.

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So let's improve your Android effectivity, we could?

Half I: The Gboard gem unearthing

All proper — first issues first, we have to verify you've got bought a handful of settings activated inside your Gboard Android association earlier than this pleasant little strategy of ours will work.

Don't be concerned, although: It is simple. I promise!

1. First, simply open up Gboard by tapping in any clean textual content discipline anyplace in your cellphone.
2. If you happen to see a clipboard icon on the keyboard's high row, faucet it. If you happen to do not see any such icon, faucet the three-dot menu icon inside that very same space after which faucet the clipboard icon on the panel that comes up.
3. Be sure that the tiny toggle within the upper-right nook of the Gboard clipboard interface is on the on place — with the swap pushed over towards the fitting. If it is not, faucet it to show it on, then comply with any prompts that seem to grant the wanted permissions to permit it to function.

JR

Obtained it? Good. Now, we have simply bought yet another space of your Gboard settings to go to:

1. Open up the total Gboard settings menu by tapping the three-dot menu icon within the keyboard's high row after which choosing "Settings" from the panel that pops up.
2. Faucet "Clipboard."
3. Be sure that the entire choices that seem subsequent are activated and within the on place.
4. Elicit the tiniest yip of satisfaction and/or do a pleasant little arm-flapping dance in your chair.

JR

And that is it. Advised ya it wasn't too horrible, proper?

Now for the enjoyable half...

Half II: The Gboard gem enjoyment

So right here we're: We have got your Gboard clipboard all revved up and prepared. All that is left is to coach your mushy mammal-brain on the correct process for making the most of this newfound energy and leaning in your cellphone's artful keyboard to move photos all throughout Android.

Right here we go:

1. In Chrome or some other Android browser, press and maintain your finger to a picture you need to copy after which choose the "Copy picture" choice from there.
2. Pixel homeowners, take notice: In apps like Twitter or Google Images — or anyplace else inside Android that does not have a easy built-in copy choice for photos — you may also open your cellphone's Overview space after which press and maintain your finger onto virtually any picture anyplace to discover an choice to repeat it. Nifty, no?!
3. As soon as you've got bought your picture copied, whistle your self a jaunty tune, then head into no matter app you need to add the picture into — Gmail, Messages, Ye Olde Digital Picture Hut, you title it.
4. Open up the message or thread the place you need to drop the picture. Odds are, Gboard will present your freshly snagged visible as a suggestion within the heart of its high bar. And take notice, too: This identical course of will work once you've simply captured a screenshot anyplace inside Android as properly.
5. If you happen to do not see that suggestion, simply discover and faucet that clipboard icon inside Gboard once more, and your copied picture might be ready for you there.
6. Nonetheless you discover it, faucet that picture inside Gboard, and bam: Your purty image might be plopped in as an attachment and able to be despatched wherever you have been working.

JR

However wait! There's yet another intriguing chance to ponder but...

Half III: The Gboard gem power-user chance

Brace your self, my candy little seasonal gourd, 'trigger that is the place issues get actually fascinating. As an example you have got a sure picture you end up sharing usually out of your Android cellphone — perhaps a screenshot exhibiting off a sure course of that comes up continuously in your work-related conversations, a picture exhibiting some method of firm data you are continuously passing alongside to different individuals, or perhaps even a picture of a tufted titmouse you discover significantly irresistible. (Hey, nothing unsuitable with admiring an unusually good-looking hen.)

Regardless of the case could be, you'll be able to really pin your most used photos into the Gboard clipboard after which have 'em stay completely current and prepared for a two-tap attachment into anyplace you want, anytime.

Etch these steps into your musty ol' hippocampus:

1. Copy the picture (or seize the screenshot) in query.
2. Pull up Gboard by tapping your favourite fingie onto any open textual content space anyplace in your cellphone.
3. Faucet the clipboard icon within the keyboard's high row — or, once more, should you do not see it there, faucet the three-dot menu icon after which discover the clipboard within the panel that comes up.
4. Press and maintain your finger onto the picture, which must be on the tippity-top of the Gboard clipboard record.
5. Choose "Pin" from the menu of choices that reveals up.

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And that is it: The following time you open up the Gboard clipboard, it is best to see your freshly pinned picture in a brand new part immediately beneath essentially the most just lately copied objects. All you've got gotta do is locate it and faucet it, and you may insert it wherever your feather-lovin' coronary heart wishes.

JR

Seems your Android cellphone's keyboard is sweet for much more than simply tapping out textual content. Now — and now you'll be able to juggle photos throughout your cellphone like a professional. Whee!

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A lot geeky pleasure, such little time. Go, go, geek energy!