How to Enable or Disable Improve Inking and Typing in Windows 11
Improve Inking and Typing in Windows 11 lets Microsoft collect your writing and typing data to make its features better for you.
This setting helps Windows learn how you write, whether with a pen on a touchscreen or by typing on a keyboard. It improves things like handwriting recognition and text predictions.
By default, Windows 11 collects this data to personalize your experience and enhance features like spelling corrections. You can manage this data collection for your user account or for all users on the PC.
Open Settings, navigate to Privacy & security, then Diagnostics & feedback, and toggle “Improve inking & typing” on or off. This setting personalizes your Windows experience by collecting typing and inking data.
Option One
Turn On or Off Improve Inking and Typing Using Settings
- Open Settings by pressing ⊞ Win+I.
- Click on Privacy & security on the left side.
- Click on Diagnostics & feedback on the right side. (see screenshot below)
- Click on Improve inking & typing to expand it. (see screenshot below step 4)
- Turn Improve inking and typing on or off as you wish. (see screenshot below)
- You can now close Settings.
To turn “Improve Inking and Typing” on or off in Windows 11, use the Settings app. Open Settings, navigate to Privacy & security, then Diagnostics & feedback, and find the “Improve inking & typing” option to toggle it.
Option Two
Turn On or Off Improve Inking and Typing Using Registry
For those comfortable with advanced settings, the Registry Editor can be used to manage “Improve Inking and Typing” in Windows 11. Executing a specific command with administrator privileges lets you control this feature. For instance, the command ‘reg add “🗝️HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Input\TIPC” /v Enabled /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f’ activates it.
Turn On Improve Inking and Typing:
reg add "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Input\TIPC" /v Enabled /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /fTurn Off Improve Inking and Typing:
reg add "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Input\TIPC" /v Enabled /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /fSummary
Adjusting the “Improve Inking and Typing” setting in Windows 11 gives you control over the data Microsoft collects about your typing and writing habits.
What does improve inking and typing mean?
Inking and typing personalization in Windows 10 collects commonly used words to improve typing and handwriting recognition. These words are stored in a custom word list associated with your account.
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