Banking App Detection Support in Wispr Flow

Last updated: October 17, 2026

Available on: Android

If the Flow Bubble disappears when you tap or type in a banking app, or shaking won't restore it during snooze, banking detection may be responsible. Flow hides the bubble in supported banking and financial apps for privacy.

How detection works

Detection works automatically once Flow is fully set up and running in the background; no extra configuration is required. This feature is available on Android only and cannot be disabled.

  • All fields: The idle bubble stays hidden when you tap or type in any field of a detected app—including memos, notes, and payee references—without a notification. Address-bar and notification-reply exceptions do not override banking detection.

  • Text privacy: Flow skips reading existing text when either the app on screen or the app providing the text field is a supported banking app.

Important: In supported banking apps, the restriction controls bubble visibility and text reading; it is not a separate block on starting dictation or pasting. Finish dictating before switching to one if you want your text pasted. If Flow cannot confirm insertion, it copies your text to the clipboard for manual pasting and shows a copied-text notification and a temporary copy button beside the bubble.

Note: If banking detection is briefly unavailable, Flow does not hide the bubble everywhere. Typing—or shaking an unlocked phone while snoozed—can briefly reveal it in a supported banking app. Sensitive-field protections still apply.

Coverage

Coverage includes banks, payment, wallet, and fintech apps, such as PayPal, Cash App, Google Wallet, PhonePe, and Wise.

Only apps on Flow's supported list are detected; coverage is specific to each regional or alternate app, not the bank's name or category. Unrecognized apps and banking websites in browsers are not covered. New coverage arrives with app updates.

Resume dictation outside the banking app

By default, the idle bubble appears only while the on-screen keyboard is open. While dictation is starting, recording, or processing, closing the keyboard or leaving a field does not hide it.

  1. Open an app outside the supported banking list.

  2. Tap a non-sensitive text field to open the on-screen keyboard.

If the bubble appears, voice input is available again. If it stays hidden, check snooze and where you're testing below.

If the bubble is snoozed

Dragging an idle bubble down onto the snooze target in a text field starts snooze.

Snooze lasts 10 minutes, continues across app switches and rotation, and clears if Flow stops running in the background. Opening the keyboard, tapping a new field, or typing will not bring the bubble back during snooze. Ending snooze resets its position to the default right edge; it returns when you next focus an allowed text box, or immediately after shaking if the text box and keyboard are already open.

  1. Open the Wispr Flow Home screen.

  2. Tap "End snooze now" on the "Bubble is snoozed" card.

  3. Return to an app outside the banking list.

  4. Tap a non-sensitive text box to open the keyboard.

If Flow is no longer available in the background, tapping "End snooze now" can have no visible effect.

Alternatively, shake twice sharply within 1.2 seconds, in any direction, outside a supported banking app. This works only while snoozed and unlocked; a text box is not required. "Wispr Flow is back!" confirms success.

Inside a supported banking app, shaking your unlocked phone twice while snoozed instead shows "Flow Bubble is disabled inside banking apps." and leaves snooze active.

If you are testing inside Wispr Flow

The bubble stays hidden until setup is complete. Inside Wispr Flow, it appears only on the Feedback/Report screen, Add Word dialog, Add Snippet dialog, Edit Profile dialog, and Report Transcription screen.

Android can independently restrict accessibility in banking apps, briefly interrupting Flow's connection when you enter or leave one.

If accessibility needs attention, an active snooze ends. Trying to start another shows "Snooze is unavailable while accessibility needs attention." The bubble's accessibility warning is hidden in detected banking apps, password/numeric fields, and Wispr Flow screens outside the allowed list.

Sensitive fields and privacy exceptions

Independently of banking detection, Flow excludes password, PIN, numeric-only, and phone-number fields in most apps. This includes visible or web password fields and custom fields marked as passwords. Flow skips reading their existing text even when an exception allows the bubble.

  • Address bars: You can dictate into supported browser address bars, but Flow never reads their existing text for context because web addresses can contain sign-in information. In an unlisted browser, the address-bar exception requires a field identified as a URL/web text field. This exception also covers Chromium web text fields in embedded web pages and in-app browser tabs, but not web email fields.

  • Notification replies: The bubble can appear in any app's inline reply on supported devices. It can also appear in other system text boxes when the keyboard is open and no app window has focus, including system dialogs—even for a password-type field. Some devices' inline replies may not show the bubble.

How iOS keyboard switching differs

On iOS, the Flow Keyboard hands off to the next keyboard for numeric keypads, numbers-and-punctuation keyboards, phone pads, decimal pads, number pads using 0–9, and email-address fields; this depends on the field, not banking-app detection. Password and URL fields do not trigger this hand-off. Saved Offline Dictation drafts are not inserted into password fields.

Still need help?

Contact support if a banking app is not detected or the bubble stays hidden after testing outside it and ending snooze. Include the app name, region, Android device, and what you tried. An undetected app can be considered for a future update.