Android devices sometimes makes some strange suggestions for misspelled words. I know that I have sent off plenty of messages that were supposed to contain shorthand words that instead ended up making no sense. This motivated me to disable the auto-correction feature. It’s kind of tough, because it comes in handy at times, but in the end it does more harm than good.
Enable or Disable Spell Check
- From the Home screen, select the app drawer, then select “Settings“.
- Select “Language & keyboard“.
- Select “Spell checker“.
- Slide the switch to “On” or “Off” as desired.
Enable or Disable Word Suggestion & Word Suggestions
- From the Home screen, select the app drawer, then select “Settings“.
- Select “Language & keyboard“.
- Select “Android keyboard“.
- Select “Text correction“.
- For word suggestions, select “Show correction suggestions” on or off as desired. For auto-correcting, tap “Auto-correction“, then choose a desired setting.
This post applies to Android OS Lollipop.
Dave says
Spell check is turned off on my moto g 3rd gen. But is Still working and making all kind of errors.