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.
Sylvia Hughes says
May 29, 2019 at 10:55 amI’ve just changed to a kindle 10 from a fire HDX and was wondering how to turn spell check on thanks
Quick Site says
December 18, 2018 at 3:01 amHuge 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.