Your smartphone’s autocorrect feature is supposed to improve your typing experience. It can improve your typing speed and rule out possible typing errors. While the feature is helpful, you may sometimes want to turn it off.
Sometimes, the phone’s keyboard’s autocorrect feature replaces the words that we intend to write. As a result, we have to delete the entire word that has been replaced and rewrite it. So, if you often experience the same problem and have a Samsung Galaxy phone, here’s how you can turn it off.
What Will Happen if You Disable Autocorrect?
If you choose to turn off the Autocorrect feature of your Samsung phone, you will lose these benefits:
- The Samsung keyboard app won’t correct your typing errors or misspelled words.
- The auto-suggested words that appear on top of the keyboard will stop appearing.
- You will regain complete control over your typing. The keyboard app won’t replace your words again.
- The typing speed would decrease because you won’t find the auto-suggested words.
How to Disable Autocorrect on a Samsung Phone?
Samsung Galaxy Phones use the Samsung Keyboard app for typing. Here’s how you can disable autocorrect on the Samsung keyboard.
1. Open the Settings app.
2. Scroll down and tap General Management.
3. Tap on Samsung Keyboard settings.
4. Scroll to the Smart typing section and disable the toggle next to Predictive text.
5. Move back to General Management and tap on Spelling Correction.
6. Turn off the Spelling Correction feature.
How to Turn off Autocorrect on a Samsung Phone with Gboard
Gboard is possibly the best keyboard app ever made for Android phones. If you’ve made Gboard the default keyboard app for your Samsung phone, here’s what you should do.
1. Open the Settings app.
2. Scroll down and tap General Management.
3. Scroll down and tap on Gboard settings.
4. Tap on text correction.
5. Turn off the toggle next to Auto-correction.
The autocorrect feature of the keyboard app is of great use since it saves you time by automatically correcting misspelled words. However, the same feature can sometimes replace words you intend to write.
Follow these two methods to turn off autocorrect on your Samsung phone. Let us know if you need more help disabling this keyboard feature.
