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title: "How to turn off predictive text and change the keyboard settings in Android"  
description: "In android by default keyboard provides predictive text and show correction suggestions. It’s a very help full for us on typing, because it’s save tim"  
author: "Manoj Pandey"  
published: 2015-05-04  
updated: 2019-09-07  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/articles/1758/how-to-turn-off-predictive-text-and-change-the-keyboard-settings-in-android  
category: "mobile/tablet"  
tags: ["mobile device", "mobile troubleshooting"]  
reading_time: 2 minutes  

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# How to turn off predictive text and change the keyboard settings in Android

##### In android by default keyboard provides predictive text and show correction

##### suggestions. It’s a very help full for us on typing, because it’s save time and give

##### us to correction suggestions keywords.

Most keyboard apps have a predictive text turn off option, but if such an option is [missing](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/52138/international-missing-children-s-day-2019-was-observed-on) on [your keyboard](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/108654/what-to-do-if-your-keyboard-is-not-working) then the simplest [method](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/166/webservice-method) of disabling predictive text (or auto correction) on [Android](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/1567/navigation-drawer-implementation-in-android) is by installing a [second](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/82433/the-second-wave-new-covid-19-vs-old-covid-19) keyboard, which allows you to turn off prediction. You can turn off auto correction on [Google](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1191/top-products-and-services-from-google) keyboard and SwiftKey keyboard.

Example of predictive text and show correct suggestions. Here I am typing ‘Rhe’ but it replaced by ‘The’.

![How to turn off predictive text and change the keyboard settings in Android](https://www.mindstick.com/mindstickarticle/3dff1c30-792a-44be-bb74-3b0c5cb0d5a8/images/688c505c-9b40-4fc4-963a-4dd717e69b9c.png)

Predictive text (auto correction) is feature of Android keyboard that predicts/auto corrects what you are going to type next. This is a very useful feature, but sometimes it will annoy you, especially if have too many specific words to type. Therefore, you may want to turn off predictive text feature on your Android phone.

##### Follow below steps to off Predictive text and show correct suggestions.

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1. Open Settings and Tap on Language and Input.

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2. Now Tap on Google Keyboard.

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##### ![How to turn off predictive text and change the keyboard settings in Android](https://www.mindstick.com/mindstickarticle/3dff1c30-792a-44be-bb74-3b0c5cb0d5a8/images/ce75361b-2bdc-4ee4-a649-8b3814aa47bc.png)

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##### 3. After open Google Keyboard then it will be show another window and tap on

##### Text correction.

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##### ![How to turn off predictive text and change the keyboard settings in Android](https://www.mindstick.com/mindstickarticle/3dff1c30-792a-44be-bb74-3b0c5cb0d5a8/images/89c08d37-7cfb-4d21-8740-ca13216d8b6b.png)

4. Now you need to hide Show correction suggestions as given below. Then tap on Auto -correction items.

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![How to turn off predictive text and change the keyboard settings in Android](https://www.mindstick.com/mindstickarticle/3dff1c30-792a-44be-bb74-3b0c5cb0d5a8/images/d96612f2-a1ce-4b73-a7bb-3752e7898fe8.png)\

5. After tap on Auto-correction you will be able to see a pop-up window and select Off option as given below.

![How to turn off predictive text and change the keyboard settings in Android](https://www.mindstick.com/mindstickarticle/3dff1c30-792a-44be-bb74-3b0c5cb0d5a8/images/28132e00-43f2-4cf4-88b7-c3d74a682738.png)

##### Now predictive text and show correction suggestions is off. You can see your

##### keyboard on type as given below

![How to turn off predictive text and change the keyboard settings in Android](https://www.mindstick.com/mindstickarticle/3dff1c30-792a-44be-bb74-3b0c5cb0d5a8/images/20c0163c-508b-44b3-8ec4-d2e742f18f33.png)

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