How to Turn On or Off the Feature for Improving Inking and Typing in Windows 11

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This content outlines how to activate or deactivate the ‘Improve inking and typing’ feature in Windows 11. This Microsoft feature utilizes collected diagnostic data to enhance elements such as handwriting recognition and spelling correction. It discusses how personalization can be chosen during the Windows device setup and illustrates how to navigate system settings to toggle…

This post shows students and new users steps to turn On or Off Improve inking and typing in Windows 11.

Microsoft collects information about your Windows devices through Diagnostic data and feedback.

When you enable sending diagnostic data and feedback in Windows, Microsoft uses that diagnostic information to keep Windows secure and up to date, troubleshoot problems, and make product improvements.

There’s also a related feature called Improve inking & typing that lets Microsoft collect samples of the content you type or write to improve features such as handwriting recognition, autocompletion, next-word prediction, and spelling correction, and we use this data in the aggregate to improve the inking and typing feature for everyone who uses Windows.

When you set up your Windows device for the first time, you can choose to send optional diagnostic data to Microsoft.

During setup, you can also choose whether or not you’d like Tailored experiences set to On or Off. On newer versions of Windows, you can choose whether or not you’d like to Improve the inking & typing set to On or Off.

Below is how to disable or enable Improved inking & typing in Windows 11.

How to turn Off or On Improve inking & typing

As mentioned above, Windows enables or disables Improve inking and typing, which collects sample content you type or write.

Here’s how to do it.

Here’s how to do it.

First, open the Windows Settings app.

Then, select Privacy & security on the left and the Diagnostics & feedback tile on the right to expand it.

Next, select the “Improve inking and typing” tile to expand it. Then, toggle the switch button to the On position to enable it.

To disable it, toggle the button to the Off position.

Exit the Settings app when you’re done.

Enable or disable Improve inking and typing using group policy

Another way to disable or enable “Improve inking and typing” is to use the Local Group Policy Editor.

First, open the Local Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc). (Search for “Edit group policy”) on the Start menu.

Then, navigate the folders below:

Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > Windows Components > Text Input

In the Group Policy details pane on the right, locate and double-click the “Improve inking and typing recognition” settings.

On the “Improve inking and typing recognition” window, set the option to Not ConfigureEnabled, or Disabled.

  • Not Configured (default)
  • Enabled – Enables the feature
  • Disabled – disables the feature

Click OK to save your changes. You may have to reboot your device for the settings to apply.

Turn on or off Improve inking and typing using the Windows Registry Editor

Yet another way to enable or disable “Inprove inking and typing” is to use the Windows Registry editor.

First, open the Windows Registry and navigate to the folder key path below.

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\TextInput

Next, double-click the AllowLinguisticDataCollection (REG_DWORD) name on the TextInput key’s right pane to open it.

Then, enter a value 0 to disable the feature in Windows.

If you do not see the “AllowLinguisticDataCollection” item, right-click a blank area and create a new DWORD (32-bit) registry item.

Then, enter the name “AllowLinguisticDataCollection” and enter a value 0 to disable it.

To restore the default behavior and allow the feature, delete the “AllowLinguisticDataCollection” name created above.

Save your changes and restart your computer.

That should do it!

Conclusion:

This post showed you how to enable or disable Improve inking and typing with diagnostic data collection in Windows 11. Please use the comment form below if you find any errors above or have something to share.

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