com.touchtype.swiftkey Copy

Microsoft SwiftKey, a third-party on-screen keyboard published on Google Play under this package name. Its Play listing describes a keyboard that learns the user's writing style, offers predictions, autocorrect, emoji, GIFs and stickers, comes with Copilot, and is marked as containing ads. On this site it is recorded as a preinstalled package on HONOR, Samsung, Sony and TCL devices, on API levels 27 to 37. 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. Microsoft'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. For 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. If it is the default keyboard on a device, disabling it without another permitted keyboard in place would remove that default, so confirm which keyboard a device uses before disabling it.

• Microsoft SwiftKey AI Keyboard - Google Play →
• SwiftKey v9+ Integration Guide - Microsoft SwiftKey →
• How do I uninstall my Microsoft SwiftKey Keyboard? - Microsoft Support →
• enterprises.policies (permittedInputMethods) - Android Management API →
• Package provenance for com.touchtype.swiftkey - Android System App Database →

• Signed by a third-party certificate (carrier or partner), not stock AOSP or Google - Microsoft, and that single certificate is consistent across all 7 device profiles.
• Its largest observed manifest declares 25 permissions: 8 runtime (user-granted), 1 signature or system-level, 10 install-time and 6 vendor or uncatalogued.
• APK size ranges from 24.0 MB to 44.0 MB across the reporting device profiles, so the build differs substantially between them.
• Reported as an updated system app in 8 of 14 observations - a newer build was installed over the one in the system image. Multiple observations can come from the same device profile.