How to Turn Off Autocorrect (Predictive Text) on Android

On smartphones running the Android operating system, mistyped text in any messaging app or any app where text is entered is automatically corrected to the right spelling. How do you turn off autocorrect on Android phones? How do you turn off message autocorrect on Android? How do you turn off predictive text on Android? In this article, we showed where and how to turn off keyboard autocorrect on smartphones running the Android operating system. Here are the details…

How Do You Turn Off Autocorrect (Predictive Text) on Android? (2023)

To turn off keyboard autocorrect on your Android device, go to Settings, then General Management, then Keyboard settings, and switch off the button next to "Predictive text". This feature, which the Android operating system offers its users, automatically corrects the typing mistakes users make when entering text anywhere on their devices and lets the correct form be written in the relevant place. The feature performs this operation correctly at a high rate. It is used by many users because it gives correct results at a high rate of roughly 90%.

However, the feature may not always give the correct result, because the application also has a margin of error. Although this is a small share of nearly 10% compared with the accuracy rate, many users run into this possibility in the text they enter during the day. For this reason, the autocorrect feature that the keyboard offers on the Android operating system annoys users quite a bit with some of the wrong corrections it makes. Especially because some words in Turkish are very close and similar to one another, the feature can make some mistakes in autocorrect operations.

When that is the case, users need to delete the wrong autocorrection and type it again correctly. Besides wasting users' time, this can cause trouble in some urgent situations. In addition, users can send wrong autocorrections to the people they are messaging without noticing. In that case, it can lead to misunderstandings between people or other situations.

As mentioned above, although the feature's accuracy is quite high, its use can also cause some problems. For this reason, Android users generally prefer to turn off the autocorrect feature on their keyboards. So where and how do you turn off the autocorrect feature on Android phones? We showed how to do this step by step below. By following the steps below, you too can practically turn off keyboard autocorrect on your device.

To turn off the keyboard autocorrect feature on your Android device:

• First, go to "Settings" on your device.
• In Settings, tap "General Management".
• On the General Management settings page, go to "Keyboard settings".
• Then, on the keyboard settings page that appears, turn off autocorrect by tapping the button next to the "Predictive text" option.

At the end of these steps, autocorrect will no longer work in any messaging app or app where text is entered on your device. Keep in mind that if you wish, you can turn this feature back on from the same place.