🥇How to disable Google's smart compose feature 【2021】 | Enor Cerna
Predictive text has precisely one acceptable use: generating crazy gibberish so that text messages annoy your friends.
This is wonderful and it makes the world a better place. However, in Gmail and Google Docs, predictive text is useless and distracting.
I know you agree with me because most of our traffic comes from search engines. That means you wrote some version of "turn off gmail smart compose" or "turn off google smart compose" to get here, which means I should stop writing this introduction and get to the end point. Here's how to turn off Smart Compose in Gmail and Google Docs.
Here's a question that Google doesn't make obvious in the UI: How do you really accept the suggestions? On a mobile device, you can touch them, but there is no way to accept changes with the mouse on a computer. What's the trick? Press the tab. Google shows a popup the first time you use the feature, but never again, so I guess we're all supposed to constantly pay attention and learn things.
Turn off Smart Compose in Gmail
Smart compose in Gmail is that gray text that appears after what you're currently typing. It can be a time saver, sure, it does things like typing the recipient's name for you, but it's also distracting when you know what you want to say. Here's how to turn it off.
1. Click the gear icon on the top bar of Gmail.
2. This will open the quick settings panel. Click See all configurations.
3. You will find the settings in the tab.
4. Click the Disable typing suggestions option. The change should take effect immediately, but you can scroll to the bottom and click Save Changes just to be sure.
It's okay. Those annoying suggestions can no longer bother you. Are you sure.
Turn off Smart Compose in Google Docs
These same suggestions recently appeared in Google Docs. Maybe I'm just insecure and worry on some level that Google's AI is a better writer than I am. Maybe it is. But that is not a reality that I can face right now, so I would like to disable this feature. Here's how to do it.
1. Click Instruments later preferences.
2. Uncheck Show smart compose suggestions and click okay.
You have outgrown the gray text suggestions in your Google Docs, and from this day on, they will no longer appear. Hurrah!
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