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Change Hotkeys to Switch Keyboard Layout in Windows 10

Recent Windows 10 builds come with a new «Region & Language» page in the Settings app. It completely replaces the classic «Language» applet of Control Panel, which is removed starting with Windows 10 Build 17063. The new page allows users to change the display language, text-to-speech, speech recognition, and handwriting options. Here is how to change hotkeys to switch keyboard layout in Windows 10 because the UI for it has changed.

If you upgraded to Windows 10 Build 17074, its new language options can look strange to you. Unlike previous releases, it does not include the Language settings UI in the Control Panel. Now you have to use Settings to configure language settings in Windows 10.

By default, Windows 10 comes with two predefined keyboard shortcuts to switch layouts: one of them is the old, familiar Alt + Shift key combination and the other is Win + Space key combination. However, some users also changed the key sequence to Ctrl + Shift or the Grave accent (`), located below Esc . Because of redesigned settings, it may not be so obvious how to change this hotkey.

As of this writing, Windows 10 Build 17074 is most recent release of the OS. It doesn’t offer any Settings page which could allow you to change the hotkeys for the input language. Instead, it offers a link which opens the classic Control Panel applet. Ironically, this applet is not accessible from the classic Control Panel any more! The situation should be changed with the final release version of Windows 10 version 1803. Here are a couple of workarounds we found that you can use in the mean time to change the hotkeys to switch keyboard layout in Windows 10 Builds 17063 and above.

To change hotkeys to switch keyboard layout in Windows 10, do the following.

1. Open Settings.
2. Go to Time & language — Keyboard.
3. Click on the Advanced keyboard settings link.
   Update: Starting with build 17083, the Advanced Options link was moved to Devices — Typing. The Keyboard page was eliminated.
4. There, click on the link Language bar options.
5. This will open the familiar dialog «Text Services and Input Languages».Tip: This dialog can be opened directly with the following command:
   Rundll32 Shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL input.dll,,
6. Switch to the Advanced Key Settings tab.
7. Select Between input languages in the list.
8. Click on the button Change key sequence, select the new key, and click OK.

An alternative way you can use is a simple Registry tweak.

Change hotkeys with a Registry tweak

See how to go to a Registry key with one click.

On the right, modify or create a new string (REG_SZ) value named Hotkey.

Set it to one of the following values:
1 — Key Sequence enabled; use LEFT ALT+SHIFT to switch between locales.
2 — Key Sequence enabled; use CTRL+SHIFT to switch between locales.
3 — Key Sequences disabled.
4 — The grave accent key (`), located below Esc toggles input locales.

To make the changes done by the Registry tweak take effect, you need to sign out and sign in to your user account.

If you are running the stable version of Windows 10, refer to the following article:

The method described in the mentioned article works in all previously released Windows 10 versions and builds prior to Windows 10 Build 17063.

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How to Change Keyboard Language Shortcut in Windows 10

In Windows 10, you can install multiple languages and if available, you can install multiple keyboard languages and layouts. This lets you chose your favorite language and layout while typing. Generally, you can either use the language bar option in the taskbar or a keyboard shortcut to switch between keyboard languages. Though the language bar option is pretty unintrusive, the keyboard shortcut can be triggered accidentally. After all, the default shortcut is Left Alt + Shift, which is not that hard to press accidentally. If you are like me who have installed multiple languages and keyboard layouts, it can be frustrating when the keyboard language or layout is changed accidentally due to an unwanted key press. To avoid that, you can change the keyboard language shortcut with ease. Let me show you how.

Change Keyboard Language Shortcut in Windows 10

In the previous versions if Windows 10, you can use the Control Panel options to change the keyboard language switching shortcut. However, Microsoft removed that ability in the recent versions. Now, you need to dig through the settings app to find and change the keyboard language shortcut. The problem is, the option to change the keyboard language shortcut is buried so deep that unless you know where to look for, it is very hard to find. But, follow the steps below and you should be golden.

1. First, open the settings app by pressing the keyboard shortcut Win + I . You can also search for the settings app in the start menu. In the Settings app, click on the «Devices» option.

2. In the devices page, go to the «Typing» tab appearing on the left panel. On the right panel, scroll down, find the «Advanced Keyboard Settings» link under the More Keyboard Settings section and click on it.

3. The above action will open the advanced keyboard settings page. Here, find the «Language Bar Options» link under the Switching Input Methods section and click on it.

4. As soon as you click on the link, the Text Services and Input Languages window will open. In this window, go to the «Advanced Key Settings» tab, select «Between Input Languages» option under Hot Keys for Input Languages and click on the «Change Key Sequence» button.

5. Windows will now show the keyboard shortcuts you can use to switch between keyboard languages under the «Switch Keyboard Layout» section. Select the keyboard shortcut of your choice and click on the «Ok» button to save changes.

6. Click on the «Apply» and «Ok» buttons in the main window and you are good to go.

That is all. It is that simple to change the keyboard shortcut to changing keyboard layout.

Conclusion

As you can see, though hard to find, it is nothing hard to change the keyboard language shortcut in Windows 10.

If you want to, you can even set custom keyboard shortcuts for specific keyboard language by selecting the specific language and then clicking on the «Change Key Sequence» button in step 5 . Next, select the «Enable Key Sequence» checkbox. Unlike the keyboard language switching shortcut, you can set almost any shortcut you want using the two dropdown menus. Just like before, click on the «Ok» button to save changes once you are done and you are good to go.

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Set shortcuts to change keyboard layout in Windows 10?

Is there any way to set keyboard shortcuts to quickly change to a different language/keyboard layout? The old shortcuts still seem to work (when set back in Windows 7), but I can’t seem to find anything to change it in Windows 10.

12 Answers 12

Go to Control Panel → Clock, Language, and Region → Change input methods (under Language) → Advanced settings → Change language bar hot keys.

The menu in the accepted answer does not exist in Control Panel anymore on Windows 10 version 1803 (not sure about 1709 and older).

But the same setting is accessible from Modern Settings app → Time & Language → Region and Language → Advanced keyboard settings (from the Related settings section) → Language bar options → Advanced Key Settings tab.

Update: Windows 10 version 1809 moved this setting again. see i3v’s answer.

In Windows 10 version 1809 (also versions 1903 and 1909), the setting described in the accepted answer is here:

Settings -> Time & Language -> Language -> Spelling, typing, & keyboard settings -> Advanced keyboard settings -> Language bar options -> Advanced Key Settings .

Known issues

These hotkeys are quite buggy since 2012 or so. They may disappear (the setting is cleared or simply not working) after a windows update, after an RDP session, after logout/login, or even without any obvious reason.

There’s one well-known workaround, that usually helps:

Settings -> Time & Language -> Language -> Administrative language settings -> Copy settings. -> tick both checkboxes -> OK .

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As a regular (non-insider) user:

As insider:

Windows key + Space is the new shortcut for switching keyboard layout!

Unfortunately this has changed in the latest Windows 10 update. You now need to go to ‘Languages’ and then ‘Advanced settings’ in Control panel, and choose ‘Change language bar hot keys’:

Which will then bring up this dialogue from which you can change the hot key by clicking ‘Change Key Sequence. ‘

None of the answers work for me as of date; right now, to open «Text Services and Input Languages» one has to run the following:

Just wanted to add to accepted answer. I am using Apple keyboard on Windows 10 here and the best way for me to switch input language is to turn off shortcut «Between input languages» completely and instead set individual shortcuts for each input language, for example:

• Left Alt + Shift + 1(US Keyboard)
• Left Alt + Shift + 2(UK Keyboard)
• Left Alt + Shift + 3(Any other input language)
• Left Alt + Shift + .
• Left Alt + Shift + 0(10th input language)

I find this setting the only one that doesn’t disturb my work all the time as occasionally pressing Alt + Shift changes language when it is not needed. Also if to remove all shortcuts from the settings then holding WIN(CMD on apple keyboard) followed by [space](press multiple times to iterate the list) or [1,2,3..] or [Select with mouse] works well too.

For the latest Windows version since late 2018/ early 2019, Microsoft has changed this:

1. select «Language Preferences» from the Task Bar/ Language options control (docked language bar)
2. Select «Spelling, typing, & keyboard settings» under «Related Settings» at the top right.
3. Scroll down to the bottom, then under «More keyboard settings», select «Advanced keyboard settings».
4. Under «Switching input methods», select «Language bar options».
5. Choose the «Advanced Key Settings» tab.
6. Press the button at the bottom of the window: «Change Key Sequence…»

I hope Microsoft will not leave these vital settings in such an obscure place, in the long term (that they will at least give more convenient alternative ways of adjusting these settings!) The default settings are infuriating: I am forever accidentally pressing CTRL+SHIFT and accidentally switching between keyboard layouts…

For Windows 10 version 1803 I found the option in this location, they had moved it from the control panel to settings.

1. Open up «Settings» by searching for it in the windows menu.
2. Go to «Region & language» on the left hand side and click «Advanced keyboard setting» on the right hand side.
3. Here you can find the «Language bar option»
4. Change the hotkey by pressing «Change Key Sequence»

an easier way to do it is:

a small menu should appear on the right side of the screen with your language
options

• press 1 , 2 , etc. to select the option you want
• release Alt

I’m running Windows Server 2019 at work and the setting is (again) in a different spot. Since any and all tooling you might use on a Server uses hotkeys, many of which start with the Ctrl + Shift or Left Alt + Shift that trigger the language switch, the only reasonable setting is to have those turned off.

Settings → Devices → Typing (left panel) → Advanced keyboard settings (right panel, bottom) → Language bar options → Advanced Key Settings (the right-most tab in the new window) → Change Key Sequence. (button at the bottom) → Not Assigned (top option)

The Win + Space hot-key still works after turning the above setting to Not Assigned, so you can still switch easily without switching accidentally.

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