How to Enable or Disable Improve Inking and Typing in Windows 11
You can enable or disable the “Improve inking and typing” feature in Windows 11 right from the Settings app.
This setting lets Windows collect your inking and typing data. The goal is to personalize your experience and improve features like text prediction and handwriting recognition.
Disabling it prevents Windows 11 from sending this data, which boosts your privacy. You can control this setting for your specific user account or for everyone using the PC.
This tutorial walks you through toggling this option on or off in Windows 11.
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.
Why This Feature Matters
The Improve Inking and Typing feature in Windows 11 helps Microsoft understand how you type and write to make Windows more secure and work better for you.
When you turn on Improve inking and typing, Microsoft collects samples of what you type or write. This helps improve features like:
- Handwriting recognition
- Autocompletion
- Next word prediction
- Spelling correction
Microsoft uses this data to make inking and typing better for all Windows users. The collected data is processed to remove unique identifiers and personal information, so it can’t be linked back to you. It also includes performance data, like changes you make to text and words you’ve added to the dictionary.
What happens: If you turn off Send optional diagnostic data, the Improve inking and typing feature will also turn off.
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.
You can easily turn the Improve Inking and Typing feature on or off using the Windows 11 Settings app.
Option Two
Turn On or Off Improve Inking and Typing Using Registry
For advanced users, you can change the Improve Inking and Typing setting in Windows 11 by editing the Registry, but this needs administrator permission.
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 lets you control the data Microsoft collects about your typing and writing.
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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