Search Settings

The Search Settings screen tunes how the home screen T9 keyboard finds and launches results. Open it from Settings → General → System / Behavior → Search Settings.

info The full-screen Universal Search overlay has its own separate settings page — result types and web search engine — reachable from the Search settings button inside the overlay. See Universal Search → Search Settings.

Contacts & Result Sources

• Search Contacts: Toggle whether typing on the home keyboard also matches people in your address book. Enabling it requests READ_CONTACTS access in-context.
  • Search by Phone Number: When contact search is on, also match against contacts' phone-number digits (not just their names).
• Search by Package Name: Also match the technical package/app-id of installed apps, returning more results for power users.

Secondary search language

Your phone may show app names in a script you would rather not type. Secondary search language makes each app findable by its name in a second language as well, so you can reach it from the Latin keypad — or reach a Latin-named app by its native name.

• Off — apps are only found by the name shown on screen.
• Pick any of the 31 supported languages (each listed under its own native name) and the launcher reads every app's label a second time in that language and indexes both.

Typical use: a phone set to Urdu, Arabic, Russian or Vietnamese shows فون / Điện thoại, while setting the secondary language to English also makes it answer to phone.

• Results found this way rank below matches on the visible name and are badged with a small translate icon.
• Apps that ship no translation for the chosen language simply keep one name — nothing is lost.
• The same setting decides which alphabet is printed on the keypad when Show Alternative Characters is on, and whether an all-kanji Japanese name is romanised as Japanese.

info Changing it re-indexes your app list right away — no restart needed.

Deep-Search Inside Messaging Apps

When supported messaging apps are installed, Key Launcher can surface in-app contact shortcuts directly from the T9 keyboard so you can jump straight into a chat:

• Zalo
• Viber
• WhatsApp

Each app has its own toggle and only appears when that app is installed on your device.

Auto Launch & Quick Open

Control how aggressively the launcher opens the first result so you can open apps without lifting your thumb:

• Auto Launch Mode:
  • Quick Open only (default): Never auto-opens. Instead it shows a "Open [App]" chip on the keyboard when the result count is small.
  • By Result Count: Automatically opens the first item once only a few results remain. Configure the results threshold.
  • By Digits Pressed: Automatically opens the first item after you press a set number of keys. Configure the digits threshold.
• Quick-Open Chip Threshold: Sets how few results must remain (N or fewer) before the "Open [App]" chip appears.

tips_and_updates If you want the launcher to feel like a classic feature-phone speed dialer, set Auto Launch Mode to By Digits Pressed with a low threshold — apps fly open after just a few key taps.

Result Filters

The filter control on the T9 keyboard narrows results to a single type: All, Apps, Contacts, Shortcuts, Folders, or Quick Action.

Shortcuts covers app shortcuts pinned through Android itself; Quick Action covers items you added from a Quick Action menu (including contact speed dials). The two lists are kept separate — see Quick Actions.