diff --git a/java/src/com/android/inputmethod/keyboard/MainKeyboardView.java b/java/src/com/android/inputmethod/keyboard/MainKeyboardView.java
index da8cce1d0..526c2f1ec 100644
--- a/java/src/com/android/inputmethod/keyboard/MainKeyboardView.java
+++ b/java/src/com/android/inputmethod/keyboard/MainKeyboardView.java
@@ -838,10 +838,10 @@ public final class MainKeyboardView extends KeyboardView implements PointerTrack
         mSlidingKeyInputPreview.dismissSlidingKeyInputPreview();
     }
 
-    public void setGesturePreviewMode(final boolean drawsGestureTrail,
-            final boolean drawsGestureFloatingPreviewText) {
-        mGestureFloatingPreviewText.setPreviewEnabled(drawsGestureFloatingPreviewText);
-        mGestureTrailsPreview.setPreviewEnabled(drawsGestureTrail);
+    private void setGesturePreviewMode(final boolean isGestureTrailEnabled,
+            final boolean isGestureFloatingPreviewTextEnabled) {
+        mGestureFloatingPreviewText.setPreviewEnabled(isGestureFloatingPreviewTextEnabled);
+        mGestureTrailsPreview.setPreviewEnabled(isGestureTrailEnabled);
     }
 
     public void showGestureFloatingPreviewText(final SuggestedWords suggestedWords) {
@@ -869,8 +869,12 @@ public final class MainKeyboardView extends KeyboardView implements PointerTrack
         PointerTracker.setMainDictionaryAvailability(mainDictionaryAvailable);
     }
 
-    public void setGestureHandlingEnabledByUser(final boolean gestureHandlingEnabledByUser) {
-        PointerTracker.setGestureHandlingEnabledByUser(gestureHandlingEnabledByUser);
+    public void setGestureHandlingEnabledByUser(final boolean isGestureHandlingEnabledByUser,
+            final boolean isGestureTrailEnabled,
+            final boolean isGestureFloatingPreviewTextEnabled) {
+        PointerTracker.setGestureHandlingEnabledByUser(isGestureHandlingEnabledByUser);
+        setGesturePreviewMode(isGestureHandlingEnabledByUser && isGestureTrailEnabled,
+                isGestureHandlingEnabledByUser && isGestureFloatingPreviewTextEnabled);
     }
 
     @Override
diff --git a/java/src/com/android/inputmethod/latin/LatinIME.java b/java/src/com/android/inputmethod/latin/LatinIME.java
index 6339e9c50..5c5b7b7c0 100644
--- a/java/src/com/android/inputmethod/latin/LatinIME.java
+++ b/java/src/com/android/inputmethod/latin/LatinIME.java
@@ -846,8 +846,8 @@ public class LatinIME extends InputMethodService implements KeyboardActionListen
         mainKeyboardView.setSlidingKeyInputPreviewEnabled(
                 currentSettingsValues.mSlidingKeyInputPreviewEnabled);
         mainKeyboardView.setGestureHandlingEnabledByUser(
-                currentSettingsValues.mGestureInputEnabled);
-        mainKeyboardView.setGesturePreviewMode(currentSettingsValues.mGesturePreviewTrailEnabled,
+                currentSettingsValues.mGestureInputEnabled,
+                currentSettingsValues.mGestureTrailEnabled,
                 currentSettingsValues.mGestureFloatingPreviewTextEnabled);
 
         // If we have a user dictionary addition in progress, we should check now if we should
diff --git a/java/src/com/android/inputmethod/latin/settings/SettingsValues.java b/java/src/com/android/inputmethod/latin/settings/SettingsValues.java
index 8aafb0738..a25cf620c 100644
--- a/java/src/com/android/inputmethod/latin/settings/SettingsValues.java
+++ b/java/src/com/android/inputmethod/latin/settings/SettingsValues.java
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ public final class SettingsValues {
     // Use bigrams to predict the next word when there is no input for it yet
     public final boolean mBigramPredictionEnabled;
     public final boolean mGestureInputEnabled;
-    public final boolean mGesturePreviewTrailEnabled;
+    public final boolean mGestureTrailEnabled;
     public final boolean mGestureFloatingPreviewTextEnabled;
     public final boolean mSlidingKeyInputPreviewEnabled;
     public final int mKeyLongpressTimeout;
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ public final class SettingsValues {
         mVoiceKeyEnabled = mVoiceMode != null && !mVoiceMode.equals(voiceModeOff);
         mVoiceKeyOnMain = mVoiceMode != null && mVoiceMode.equals(voiceModeMain);
         mGestureInputEnabled = Settings.readGestureInputEnabled(prefs, res);
-        mGesturePreviewTrailEnabled = prefs.getBoolean(Settings.PREF_GESTURE_PREVIEW_TRAIL, true);
+        mGestureTrailEnabled = prefs.getBoolean(Settings.PREF_GESTURE_PREVIEW_TRAIL, true);
         mGestureFloatingPreviewTextEnabled = prefs.getBoolean(
                 Settings.PREF_GESTURE_FLOATING_PREVIEW_TEXT, true);
         mCorrectionEnabled = mAutoCorrectEnabled && !mInputAttributes.mInputTypeNoAutoCorrect;