Once again, Samsung "support" demonstrates it is clueless about how its own OS functions.
I used to use side button voice input and it worked great up to OneUI 7. OneUI 7 brought a new requirement to enable the persistent keyboard button in the navigation area to use side button voice input. I have no other use for the keyboard button so this just results in a useless, persistent empty space beneath my keyboard.
Samsung support asserts that it only appears "momentarily" when voice input is active, but this is absolutely false and the serting description even makes that pretty clear.
The persistent keyboard button being enabled should not be a prerequisite for using side button voice input.
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