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Where this site holds signer data, which is on the Samsung and TCL devices, it is signed by a single key classified as Microsoft's that does not also sign the Android framework.\n\nMicrosoft's integration guide for device makers says the preinstalled SwiftKey APK is exactly the APK distributed through Google Play, and that the behavioural differences of a preinstalled copy are triggered by a separate factory settings APK that accompanies it. The guide's installation steps enable and set com.touchtype.swiftkey/com.touchtype.KeyboardService as the default keyboard, but whether a given device maker ships it as the default could not be established from the sources cited here. Microsoft's support article notes that where SwiftKey was preinstalled the user is offered \"Uninstall updates\" rather than \"Uninstall\". This site flags 8 of its 29 observations as an updated system app. The permissions recorded here include INTERNET, RECORD_AUDIO, CAMERA, fine and coarse location, GET_ACCOUNTS and the Google advertising ID permission; this site aggregates permissions across observations rather than per build, so which builds declare them cannot be established. No version-specific change in its role was found in the sources cited here.\n\nFor Android Enterprise, EMM and kiosk use, the Android Management API documents a permittedInputMethods policy: if present, only the input methods provided by packages in that list are permitted, and if the list is empty only system input methods are permitted. Whether a preinstalled copy of SwiftKey counts as a system input method under that policy could not be established from the sources cited here. 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