The numeric keypads of the old mobile phones have been left behind for many years. With smartphones and their screens we move on to virtual keyboards that they are getting smarter, but sometimes they get too in the middle. If you use the Google keyboard, we teach you to deactivate your spell checker.
What are we talking about when we talk about Google Keyboard
Not all Android phones have the same keyboard. A quick search in the Play Store It will allow you to discover that there are different variants. On many occasions, the manufacturers themselves create their own Keyboards. And, although they are all basically the same, they are never exactly the same. By Google, they needed a keyboard to implement on their own devices and on any pure Android phone, and that's where it was born Gboard, which stands out for having integrated, of course, the Google search bar.
If you see that G with the Google logo to the left of your keyboard, you are using Gboard. And if after watching the video you have wanted to try the keyboard that Google offers, you can download it from the Play Store No problem:
What are we talking about when we talk about spell checker?
Okay, we've all used a keyboard in Android and we have seen how a predictive text. Writing suggestions and other recommendations appear in a bar placed over the upper area. But, as we say, that's predictive text, and it's not what we're talking about this time.
If you use the Google keyboard, the company implements a extra spell checker which works on top of the usual predictive text. If you misspell a word, when you reposition the cursor over it, an expanded menu will appear with different propositions, not far removed from the corrections that it would show us on the PC. The main problem with this function is that it is somewhat intrusive, it does not work constantly and it does not solve anything that the predictive keyboard does not already do.
That is why we teach you to deactivate it, and also to activate it in case you do want to use it instead of the predictive keyboard.
How to turn on and off Google's spell checker on Android
To control Google's keyboard settings and turn its spell checker on or off, go to the Settings from your device and scroll down until you find the System. Enter and click on the first option, Languages ​​and text input. In this menu you can control various aspects of writing, such as general languages, which keyboard you use, configure a physical keyboard ...
Extends the submenu of Advanced and you will see a section called Entrance assistance. Enter the first option, called Spelling checker. By default, you will see that at the top right you have the switch in Enabled. Put it on and it will be Disabled and you won't have to worry about the spell checker again. If you want to reactivate it, all you have to do is go back to this menu.
You have two more options. The first is to select which languages ​​to use, which by default will be those of the system. The second is to determine which corrector to use and, in its settings, activate the option to use the names of your contacts when correcting mistakes. Both can be useful if you prefer to opt for the spell checker rather than the predictive keyboard. The choice is in your hand.
