Google’s messaging service offers a text prediction system that is supposed to help you compose your posts. Unfortunately, this is not always the case.
For the past few weeks, Gmail users have had the option of taking advantage of Smart Compose, a smart composing feature that offers predictive text suggestions when you compose a message.
Suggested texts appear transparently as you write and, when relevant, can be validated by pressing the Tab key on the keyboard.
While the feature is helpful and can save you time, it can also get quite annoying. A brief moment of inattention is all it takes to take your focus away and make you lose track of what you wanted to say.
To avoid having Gmail cut you off, you can turn off Smart Copywriting with just a few clicks.
1. Log in to Gmail
If you haven’t already, log into your inbox. Activated by default when deployed, smart writing only requires a few clicks from Gmail settings to be deactivated.
2. Go to Mail Settings
To access Gmail Settings, click on the grafted cogwheel at the top right of the inbox and enter the Settings menu.
3. Turn off smart redaction
The Gmail Settings section opens to the General tab. It is from this tab that you can deactivate the functionality. Find the Smart Writing row, and select Text Suggestions Off.
