Enable/disable typing suggestions in Windows 11

This article will show you how to enable or disable typing suggestions in Windows 11 operating system.

Kapil Arya
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When you are typing something, typing suggestions will help you to quickly complete your task. Especially, if you have to type some long spellings, typing suggestions are specifically helpful in those scenarios. In other cases, if you do not know the correct spelling of something you want to type, typing suggestions are equally helpful in that case as well. In this article, we will see how you can enable or disable typing suggestions in Windows 11.

When typing suggestions are enabled, you can see how they are shown in your Windows 11, in below screenshot:

Disable typing suggestions in Windows 11

Typing suggestions are not supported on all of the languages. So if you enable them and they’re not shown, it might be possible that the language you are using on the system may not support typing suggestions. However, I believe they are supported for most of the languages. When you have typing suggestions enabled, whenever you type in any of the app, you have typing suggestions available.

To enable or disable typing suggestions, you can try either of the methods mentioned below. The steps are illustrated on Windows 11 build 22000.51.

Enable/disable typing suggestions in Windows 11

Method 1 – Using Settings App

Press Windows Key + X keys and select Settings to open the app.

In the Settings app, go to Time & language > Typing.

In Typing section, turn On or Off the Show text suggestions when typing on the physical keyboard option to enable or disable typing suggestions, respectively.

Disable typing suggestions in Windows 11

If this method doesn’t works for you, try the registry method mentioned next here.

Method 2 – Using Registry

Registry Disclaimer: It is recommended to create a System Restore point first, if you’re not familiar with registry manipulation.

1. Run  regedit command to open Registry Editor. 

2. In Registry Editor window, go to:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Input\Settings

Disable typing suggestions in Windows 11

3. In the right pane, you’ll find EnableHwkbTextPrediction named registry DWORD (REG_DWORD). Set it to 0 for enabling typing suggestions or 1 to disable typing suggestions.

4. Close Registry Editor, and sign out and sign in back to make changes effective.

That’s it!

Read next: How to move taskbar to top in Windows 11.

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Kapil Arya
11x Microsoft MVP · Admin

Kapil holds Microsoft MVP title in Windows IT Pro expertise, 11-times in a row (2014-2025). He is 8-times Windows Insider MVP as well, and author of 'Windows Group Policy Troubleshooting' book. In 2015, Microsoft India accomplished him as 'Windows 10 Champion'. Being passionate Windows blogger, he loves to help others on fixing their system issues. Kapil has worked with official Microsoft Community Engagement Team (CET) on several community projects. You can subscribe him for news/updates and fixes for Windows.

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