How to Enable or Disable Typing Insights in Windows 11
You can enable or disable Typing Insights in Windows 11 to control predictive text and typing suggestions.
Windows 11’s Typing Insights is a feature that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to improve how you type, especially on touch keyboards. It offers word predictions, auto-correction, and swipe-to-type functionality.
This feature tracks statistics about your software keyboard usage and hardware keyboard prediction. You can manage these settings within the Windows 11 interface.
Enable or disable Typing Insights in Windows 11 through Settings. Navigate to Time & language, then Typing, and toggle the Typing insights switch. This controls predictive text and typing suggestions.
Option One
Turn Typing Insights On or Off in Settings
You can easily turn Typing Insights on or off in Windows 11 using the Settings app.- Open Settings by pressing
Win+I. - Click on Time & language on the left side, then click on Typing on the right side.
Open Typing settings - Click on Typing insights.
- Turn Typing insights On (this is the default) or Off depending on what you want.
- You can close Settings now if you’d like.
Option Two
Turn Typing Insights On or Off Using Registry
Turn On Typing Insights
This is the default setting.
reg add "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Input\Settings" /v InsightsEnabled /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f
Turn Off Typing Insights ⚙️ Requires admin privileges
reg add "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Input\Settings" /v InsightsEnabled /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f
Summary
Typing Insights in Windows 11 is a helpful feature that uses AI to improve your typing speed and efficiency.
How do I turn off input insights and typing data harvesting in 🪟 Windows 11?
How do I turn off Typing Insights in Windows 11 for privacy? You can turn off Typing Insights by going to Settings > Time & Language > Typing > Typing Insights and toggling it off. For stricter privacy control, you can also disable it via Registry, Group Policy, or PowerShell.
How to see keyboard typing history in 🪟 Windows 11?
First, open Settings by pressing the Windows key and the letter I together. In Settings, select ‘Time & language’ from the left-hand menu, then choose ‘Typing’ on the right. Now, click on ‘Typing insights.’ You can then turn Typing Insights on or off.
Does 🪟 Windows 11 track your keystrokes?
This is a common myth. However, it does include protection against key logging malware through Microsoft Defender antivirus.
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