Are you tired of your Amazon Kindle Fire automatically correcting and capitalizing the words you type? I was, and had to disable the setting. Here’s how to turn the auto correction and capitalization features of the Kindle Fire on or off.
Kindle Fire HDX & HD
- Swipe down the bar at the top of the screen and choose “Settings“.
- Select “Language & Keyboard“.
- Select “Current Keyboard Settings“.
- Set “Auto-capitalization” and “Auto-correction” to “On” or “Off” as desired. You might want to change “Next-word Suggestions” also if you have a preference on whether or not the Kindle Fire should try to predict what word you are typing.
Original Kindle Fire
- Original Kindle Fire users select the settings gear then choose “More“.
- Choose “Kindle Keyboard“.
- Switch “Auto-capitalization” and “Quick fixes” to “On” or “Off” as desired.
Mischa says
Trouble is, disabling this does not mean it goes away. Whoever developed this will now mess with your text to induce you to turn it back on. It corrupts perfectly written and spelled words once you hit space bar. I’ve seen it do this countless times. (Backspacing restores the correct spelling but if you don’t catch it…). When you wish to insert or correct a letter in the middle of a word it inserts an unwanted space that you cannot get rid of except by deleting the whole word. It is diabolical. I’m pretty sure it’s intentional. It should not be modifying text at all if turned off at the wall so to speak).
Sylvia Hughes says
I’ve just changed to a kindle 10 from a fire HDX and was wondering how to turn spell check on thanks
Quick Site says
Huge help thank you! I couldn’t tell where those controls were. I was in Google Docs app on the Fire tablet and those underlines were driving me nuts. Using your guidance, here are the complete steps for
AMAZON FIRE HD 8:
Swipe down notifications
Tap Settings cog wheel
Scroll down past the orange “Device” section to the next orange section “Personal”
Tap Keyboard & Language
“Keyboard & Input Methods”
Tap “Current Keyboard”
In the popup that follows, tap the orange “Keyboard Settings”
—- and finally you arrive at all the settings Mitch mentioned.
Truly a ridiculous number of buried interface levels for something so commonly needed by users who don’t want all the prediction automation.