How to Enable or Disable Text Suggestions in Windows 11

What Are Text Suggestions?

Windows 11 text suggestions are helpful word prompts that appear as you type, like suggesting ‘hello’ when you start typing ‘hel’.

This works in many places. You can use it when writing emails, chatting, or filling out forms.

How to Use Text Suggestions

Using Windows 11 text suggestions makes typing faster and helps you avoid mistakes by offering word completions as you go.

What happens when you use a suggestion? The word gets typed for you automatically.

To pick a suggestion, you can:

• Click on it with your mouse or tap it on a touch screen.
• Use your keyboard arrows: Press the Up arrow to open suggestions. Then press Left and Right to choose. Press Enter to select.
• If you do not want to use a suggestion, click outside the suggestion box or press Esc.

Turn On or Off Text Suggestions Using Settings

You can easily turn Windows 11 text suggestions on or off using the Settings app, which is the most straightforward way to manage this feature.

What happens next: Windows will use or stop using text suggestions as you type.

1. ⚙️ Open Settings by pressing ⊞ Win+I on your keyboard.
2. Click on Time & language in the left menu.
3. Choose Typing on the right.
4. Find Show text suggestions when typing on the physical keyboard and turn it On or Off depending on what you want.
5. You can also turn on Multilingual text suggestions if you want suggestions in multiple languages. Note: This only works if text suggestions are turned on.

You can jump straight to Typing settings by clicking this link, which will open your Settings app: Open Typing Settings

Turn On or Off Text Suggestions Using Registry (Advanced)

Warning: Changing the Registry can affect your computer. Be careful. Consider backing up your Registry first.

Why use Registry? Advanced users can control text suggestions this way.

What happens? Windows uses these settings to enable or disable suggestions.

To Turn On Text Suggestions:

reg add "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Input\Settings" /v EnableHwkbTextPrediction /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

To Turn On Multilingual Text Suggestions:

reg add "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Input\Settings" /v MultilingualEnabled /t REG_DWORD /d 1 /f

Remember: Multilingual suggestions only work if the main text suggestions feature is turned on.

To Turn Off Text Suggestions (default):

reg add "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Input\Settings" /v EnableHwkbTextPrediction /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

To Turn Off Multilingual Text Suggestions:

reg add "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Input\Settings" /v MultilingualEnabled /t REG_DWORD /d 0 /f

Summary

• Text suggestions help you type faster and make fewer mistakes.
• You can easily turn them on or off in ⚙️ Windows Settings.
• If you want, you can also manage text suggestions by changing the Windows Registry. Only do this if you are comfortable doing it.
• Multilingual suggestions are available. They depend on the main text suggestion feature being on.
• Feel free to switch these features on or off whenever you want.

More Help

For official details from Microsoft, visit their support page: Enable text suggestions in Windows – Microsoft Support