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 the Improve Inking and Typing data collection in Windows 11 prevents the operating system from sending that information, which boosts user privacy. This setting can be controlled for a specific user account or for all users on 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 learn how you write and type. This makes Windows work better and stay more secure for you by improving things like handwriting recognition and spelling correction.
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 inking and typing data to improve Windows 11 for everyone. The collected data removes personal details so it cannot be linked back to a specific user. Performance data, such as text changes and custom dictionary additions, is also included.
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 on or off Improve Inking and Typing in Windows 11 through the Settings app. Just press the Windows key and ‘I’ together to open Settings, then go to Privacy & security and find Diagnostics & feedback.
Option Two
Turn On or Off Improve Inking and Typing Using Registry
If you’re comfortable with advanced settings, you can turn Improve Inking and Typing on or off in Windows 11 using the Registry Editor. This method requires administrator rights and involves running specific commands to change the setting.
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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