How stop Gmail from sending me automatic text when I am typing an email?


I know how to overwrite the automatic text with my own text, but I cannot find a way to stop Gmail sending me the automatic text in the first place.



Thank you beforehand for your kind help.


Joe Busuttil

Go to GMail settings and scroll down to Smart Compose and disable the option.

Many thanks for prompt help.


Your tip worked well, but unfortunately the problem recurs after a while.


Any suggestions, please?


Regards.


Joe Busuttil

The next option I can think of is Browser settings. This will depend upon the browser you use. I can find an example for Firefox, so I hope this helps; in General settings of Firefox scroll down to Browsing and disable option for Search for text when you start typing. Other browsers will probably have something similar. But the only setting I can find for Google Chrome with any form of similarity is: Settings/Preferences: Advanced -> Privacy and security:
Use a web service to help resolve spelling errors
Smarter spell-checking by sending what you type in the browser to Google

- Firefox example.


Off-topic: that second last option I am glad Firefox incorporated. A version or two ago they had made it a default and scroll-bars vanished when viewing pages larger than the browser page could show and on a mac desktop computer made it extremely unreliable to scroll with cursor keys (frequently not able to.) I downgraded to an earlier version and put in a request to include an option to enable or disable this behaviour.

First of all, I renew my thanks for your promptness and help.


Unfortunately, Gmail seems to be determined to compel us to use automatic text. I hope that they'll soon think better of it and let us carry on without
this predictive nuisance.


Kind regards.


Joe