keyboard layout question

[Wastingtime]

Is there a way to change the layout on the keyboard on my xz so it looks like the old one on my z5? Mainly so the alt page with The numbers have the old layout

[MarlonUk1]

/t5/Xperia-XZ/Xperia-keyboard-on-XZ/td-p/1181342

[Emir1]

Hi @Wastingtime, welcome to our community!

I am sorry to say that Xperia XZ uses a different keyboard than Xperia Z5. Z5 uses our previous Xperia Keyboard, while your Xperia XZ uses SwiftKey. Unfortunately, Swiftkey has a different layout as you have noticed, and I am sorry to say that there is no setting to make the alternative keys use the same layout as Xperia Keyboard to my knowledge.  

I understand you correctly in that you want there to be number rows at the top, and then alternative keys such as @#*" and so forth beneath? To my knowledge there's no setting to make it identical to Xperia Keyboard.

If you dislike the layout of Swiftkey however, you may try some other keyboard alternatives from Google Play Store to try to see if you can find one which suits you more!

Let me know how it went!

[Sant_XZR]

I installed Google keyboard, which is similar to previous Xperia Keyboard.

[Emir1]

@Sant_XZR that is one of the beauties of Android, you can experiment and find the one app which suits you!