How to Clean the Facemoji Keyboard Dictionary on Xiaomi: The Complete Guide

Modern Xiaomi smartphone users often face a situation where the keyboard begins to predict words incorrectly or offers inappropriate options for auto-replacement. This is especially true for the popular Facemoji keyboard, which is famous for its emoji themes and wide functionality. The accumulation of data in the dictionary over time leads to the fact that algorithms get confused, offering slang, typos or simply inappropriate words in business correspondence.

Fortunately, Android and the MIUI shell make it easy to fix this situation. Deep dictionary cleaning brings back the app's "factory" logic by removing all user-learned input patterns. In this article, we'll take a look at all the available methods for resetting keyboard settings, from standard app features to Android system settings.

Restoring the purity of your input is not just a matter of convenience, it's also a matter of digital hygiene. Resetting your dictionary can solve problems with key sticking, lags in printing, and voice input incorrectly, and let's look at how to do this properly without losing important design settings.

Why do I need to periodically clean the dictionary?

The main reason Facemoji's dictionary needs cleaning is to accumulate "junk" data. Machine learning algorithms built into the keyboard remember every word you type, including random character sets, typos and specific slang. Over time, the database grows, which can slow down the application on devices with limited RAM.

In addition, many users notice that after installing third-party themes or updating the software version, the old dictionary begins to conflict with new predictive input functions. The autocorrect system can begin aggressively replacing the right words with those that were mistakenly entered in the past. Regular reset helps eliminate these anomalies and restore print accuracy.

⚠️ Before you clean it completely, make sure you don’t lose important custom dictionaries if they’re synced to the cloud, although Facemoji relies mostly on local storage on the device.

Also worth noting is the impact of cache on performance: Temporary files that are stored with the dictionary can take up a significant amount of space, and deleting them frees up system resources, which is especially important for budget models Xiaomi Redmi or Poco, where every megabyte of free memory affects the response speed of the interface.

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Cleaning the dictionary eliminates autocorrect errors and frees up system resources, speeding up the keyboard.

Preparation for the resetting procedure

Before you start taking decisive action, you need to follow a few preparatory steps, which will help to avoid a situation where after reset you will not be able to quickly return to the usual interface, first of all, it is worth remembering or writing down the current design theme if it is not standard, since the data reset can return the default look of the keyboard.

The second important thing is to check for updates. Sometimes the problem with an incorrect vocabulary is solved by installing a fresh version of the application from Google Play or GetApps. If the update doesn't work, then the cleaning procedure becomes necessary. Make sure you have a stable Internet connection for possible re-downloading of language packets.

• 📱 Remember the name of the current keyboard theme for fast reinstalling.
• 🔒 Make sure you remember passwords from important accounts, as autocomplete may reset.
• 🌐 Check for updates to the Facemoji Keyboard app in the store.
• 🔋 Make sure your smartphone battery is above 20% to avoid shutdown.

It's not superfluous to take a screenshot of the current keyboard settings, especially if you've adjusted the bar height, key sounds or vibration, and after cleaning, all of these settings will return to default values, and it will be more difficult to restore them from memory.

Method 1: Cleaning through the settings of the application itself

The safest and easiest method is to use the built-in Facemoji Keyboard, which allows you to reset learned words without removing the app itself, and open the keyboard settings menu, which is usually called by long-term tapping on the smagus icon or through a gear on the toolbar.

You have to find the language and input section in the menu. The interface may vary slightly depending on the version, but the logic remains the same. We need a section that has to do with the history of the input or the personalization, and that's where the database of your frequently used words is stored.

Facemoji settings → Language and input → Clear your input history

Once the button is pressed, the system will request confirmation of the action, which is a standard precaution to prevent the user from accidentally deleting the accumulated data, confirm the action, and the dictionary will be cleared instantly, the keyboard can reboot or suggest that the language be re-selected.

Method 2: Complete reset via Android settings (MIUI)

If the built-in feature doesn’t work or you want to be guaranteed to remove all traces of use, including cache and temporary files, you’ll have to use Android’s system settings.This method is more radical, as it returns the application to “as after installation.”

Go to the basic settings of your Xiaomi smartphone. Find the "Apps" or "All Apps" section. In the list of installed programs, find the Facemoji Keyboard. By clicking on it, you will be taken to the application management menu where we are interested in "Memory" or "Storage".

So here you'll see two buttons: Clear cache and Clear all data (or Reset), and we're interested in the second option, which completely removes the local dictionary database, theme settings and user preferences, and then the keyboard will behave as if you installed it for the first time.

• 📂 Open the "Settings" of the Xiaomi smartphone.
• 📱 Go to the "Applications" section" →"All applications".
• 🔍 Find the list of "Facemoji Keyboard".
• 🗑️ Press "Clear" →"Clear all data".

⚠️ Note: After complete data cleanup, you will need to re-activate the keyboard in the system and give the necessary permissions to access if they were reset.

Language and dictionary management

Once you clear the dictionary, it's important to set up language packets correctly. Facemoji supports many languages, and often the problem is that multiple languages are activated at the same time, which confuses the predictive input algorithms. You can delete the extra layouts in the language menu.

It is recommended to leave only the languages you use daily, for example, if you use only Russian and English, make sure that other languages (Ukrainian, Belarusian, Kazakh, etc.) are disabled or removed from the active list, which will significantly improve the quality of the prompts.

Also available in this section is the "Next word prediction" feature, which is often available. If the keyboard is still acting weird after cleaning the dictionary, try temporarily disabling this feature and then turning it on again, and this will start the learning process from scratch.

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Use the Incognito mode in your browser or special applications so that the keyboard does not remember passwords and sensitive data in the future.

Solving Common Problems After Resetting

Sometimes, after cleaning, users find that the keyboard stops appearing when typing, which means that the default input settings have gone wrong, so you need to go back to the MIUI language and input settings and select Facemoji Keyboard as the primary one.

Another common problem is the disappearance of previously installed free or paid themes, because we cleaned the application data, local links to the topics could be lost, in which case you just go to the theme store inside the keyboard and click "Download" or "Activate" for your favorite theme again, the purchase data is stored on the server, so you do not need to repay.

If the keyboard is slow even after cleaning, the problem may not be the dictionary, but the incompatibility of the app version with your Android version. Try to uninstall the app completely and reinstall it from the official source.

• 🔄 Reboot your smartphone after resetting data to apply changes.
• ✅ Check that Facemoji is selected as the primary input method.
• 🎨 Re-activate the theme in the app store.
• 🌐 Make sure that network access is not blocked for the keyboard.

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