diff --git a/src/core/frontend/applets/software_keyboard.cpp b/src/core/frontend/applets/software_keyboard.cpp
index 8cb888a629caae2ca8ebf9c9d4e2ab7e52cea36c..c1bacefef354021cd218d4b45aa7a43bca3ae075 100644
--- a/src/core/frontend/applets/software_keyboard.cpp
+++ b/src/core/frontend/applets/software_keyboard.cpp
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 // Refer to the license.txt file included.
 
 #include "common/logging/backend.h"
+#include "common/string_util.h"
 #include "core/frontend/applets/software_keyboard.h"
 
 namespace Frontend {
diff --git a/src/yuzu/applets/software_keyboard.cpp b/src/yuzu/applets/software_keyboard.cpp
index 9e1c59626b6db1a19047e9a7e2184c9b7a9d7ff7..bd8bd0dd01805f196d2362d59da636833f6a9e9f 100644
--- a/src/yuzu/applets/software_keyboard.cpp
+++ b/src/yuzu/applets/software_keyboard.cpp
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 #include <QLineEdit>
 #include <QVBoxLayout>
 #include "common/logging/backend.h"
+#include "common/string_util.h"
 #include "yuzu/applets/software_keyboard.h"
 
 QtSoftwareKeyboardValidator::QtSoftwareKeyboardValidator(
diff --git a/src/yuzu/main.cpp b/src/yuzu/main.cpp
index 999086e7f28916346446d6d44bd430e6a95bd01c..7b2a01169de62d389e864da14f9a3408bdc87a0d 100644
--- a/src/yuzu/main.cpp
+++ b/src/yuzu/main.cpp
@@ -8,9 +8,11 @@
 #include <thread>
 
 // VFS includes must be before glad as they will conflict with Windows file api, which uses defines.
+#include "applets/software_keyboard.h"
 #include "core/file_sys/vfs.h"
 #include "core/file_sys/vfs_real.h"
 #include "core/hle/service/acc/profile_manager.h"
+#include "core/hle/service/am/applets/applets.h"
 
 // These are wrappers to avoid the calls to CreateDirectory and CreateFile because of the Windows
 // defines.
@@ -559,6 +561,8 @@ bool GMainWindow::LoadROM(const QString& filename) {
 
     system.SetGPUDebugContext(debug_context);
 
+    Service::AM::Applets::RegisterSoftwareKeyboard(std::make_shared<QtSoftwareKeyboard>(*this));
+
     const Core::System::ResultStatus result{system.Load(*render_window, filename.toStdString())};
 
     const auto drd_callout =