How to stop Google’s Smart Compose text suggestions
by Barbara Krasnoff from The Verge - All Posts on (#6KHYA)
Image: Samar Haddad / The Verge When you're composing a document or email in Google Docs or Gmail, you may have noticed that the application often tries to finish sentences for you. As I was writing this, Google suggested when I started writing this" instead of my preferred when I started to type." That's because of Google's Smart Compose feature, which tries to anticipate your thought processes and add what it thinks you're going to type next.
Once a suggestion appears (in slightly lighter type), you have two choices: if you like it, you can hit the tab on your keyboard (or, on a mobile device, swipe across the word), and it's there. If you don't like the suggestion, just keep typing, and it disappears.
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