Google Pixel 3: Enable or Disable Autocorrect

Mitch BartlettJanuary 6, 2019 Comments (4)

Tired of your Google Pixel 3 smartphone correcting everything you type? You can enable or disable this functionality with these steps.

From the Home screen, slide the apps up and open “Settings“.
Select “System“.
Choose “Languages & input“.
Select “Virtual keyboard“.
Select the keyboard you use. By default, it should be “Google keyboard“.
Select “Text correction“.
Turn “Auto-correction” to “On” or “Off” as desired. This setting controls whether a word is corrected or not after you type a space or punctuation.

Additionally, you can turn “Auto capitalization” and other text correction settings on or off as desired.

Author Mitch Bartlett

Through my career that spans over 20 years I have become an expert in Microsoft Systems Administration, Android, and macOS. I started this site as a technical guide for myself and it has grown into what I hope is a useful knowledgebase for everyone.

Comments

Kathe says:

October 5, 2021 at 8:43 am

Thank you. Mine was turned on, but it’s still not capitalizing the first word of a sentence.
B Smith says:

December 24, 2020 at 1:11 pm

Thanks, fixed although I do not have Virtual Keyboard. Instead I have On-screen keyboard followed by Gboard which then takes to me to a list which includes Text correction. This 74 year old brain is still working – with your help!
Michael says:

January 2, 2020 at 3:38 am

Thank you, this helped me a lot.
Gladys ngaleu says:

December 16, 2019 at 9:00 am

thanks you for a process