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“.
- Tap “System“. (Skip this step on some versions)
- Select “Language & keyboard“.
- Select “Virtual keyboard“.
- Choose the keyboard you are using. It’s normally named “Android“, “Google“, “gboard“, “Swype“, etc.
- Select “Text correction“.
- Enable or disable the options you want:
- Auto-correction
- Auto capitalization
- Double-space period
- Show suggestion strip
- Next-word suggestions
This post applies to Android OS Oreo.
Mitch Bartlett says
The Galaxy A8 has a different build of Android 8. That’s why the settings are different. Straight Android 8 has the setting in the location specified in the post.
Brian O says
No help at all. These settings do not exist in Android 8.0. After much searching, I found the controls here for Samsung Galaxy A8 92018):
Settings>language and input>On-screen keyboard>Samsung keyboard>smart typing
Here you can choose input method and toggle predictive text. Well-hidden.
Stan says
I have android 8 on Samsung s7. I can’t find these settings since the last update. I believe this thing would be better used for target practice
Kent Keller says
Android programmers. If you are out there, please listen. We all hate the auto-correction. Please get rid of it.
AzzKickr says
Same here. Disabled everything; keeps correcting … :(
Kent Keller says
I guessit is the thought that counts. Disabled everything, messager still insistrs on “correcting” everthing. Annoying to the max.