How to Enable Touch Keyboard in Windows 11
With Windows 11, Microsoft completely redesigned its touch keyboard with a new UI and features. For starters, Windows has two on-screen keyboards —
an on-screen keyboard and a touch keyboard. While the on-screen keyboard can be opened anytime, the touch keyboard on the other hand used to work in
tablet mode and was made specifically for the touch input. But that’s about to change in Windows 11.
The touch keyboard in Windows 11 works just like the on-screen keyboard and can be used any time. The update also brought a better UI and a ton of features. Though you can still use the old
on-screen keyboard as a legacy app, the touch keyboard is the new on-screen keyboard that we all deserve.
Windows 11 also doesn’t have a tablet mode, the touch keyboard can be accessed without enabling the tablet mode.
This makes it work more like an on-screen keyboard which is even better than the original.
The touch keyboard is not enabled by default, here’s how you can enable it.
1. First press Windows key+I to open Settings or you can open the Start menu and open Settings from the All apps page.
2. In the settings, click on Personalization and then select the Taskbar option.
3. Now, in the Taskbar settings, enable the toggle beside the Touch keyboard in the Taskbar corner icons section.
That’s it, the keyboard icon will be visible in the Taskbar.
Click on the keyboard icon to open the new touch keyboard.
