How to Turn off Auto-Correct on WhatsApp

This wikiHow teaches you how to stop WhatsApp from automatically correcting your spelling mistakes. WhatsApp does not provide an option to enable or disable autocorrect, but you can disable the feature on your computer or smartphone so that spelling mistakes are not corrected when using WhatsApp.

Table of Contents

On iPhone

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Open section

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Settings of iPhone. Tap the Settings app with the gear icon on a gray background.

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Scroll down and tap

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General (General). This option is located near the top of the Settings page, just below the iPhone screen.

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Scroll down and tap Keyboard . This option is located about the bottom half of the General page.

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Tap the green “Auto-Correction” switch

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. This switch will turn white

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, so iPhone no longer automatically corrects input errors on WhatsApp or any other application when you enter text.

You can also tap the green “Auto-Capitalization” switch to turn off auto-capitalization.

On pure Android

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Open Android’s Settings app. Swipe down from the top of the screen to open the notifications menu, then tap the Settings icon

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in the upper right corner of the menu.

On some Android devices, you may need to swipe down with two fingers to open the notifications menu.

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Scroll down and tap System . This option is near the bottom of the page.

If you see Languages & input or Language & keyboard option on the Settings page, tap it and skip to the next step.

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Click Languages & input near the top of the System menu.

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Tap Virtual keyboard . This option is near the top of the page. A list of installed keyboards will open.

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Select keyboard. Tap the name of the default keyboard (e.g. Google ).

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Click Text correction near the top of the menu. ^{[1] X Research Source}

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Tap the teal “Auto-correction” switch

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. The switch will turn gray

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signal that Android will no longer automatically correct spelling errors as you type on WhatsApp or any other app.

You can also turn off the “Auto-capitalization” feature this way.
Depending on your Android’s screen size, you may need to scroll down to see the “Auto-correction” switch.

On Samsung Galaxy

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Open Samsung Galaxy’s Settings app. Swipe down from the top of the screen, then tap the Settings icon

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in the upper right corner a menu appears.

On Windows

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Open Start

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. Click the Windows icon in the lower left corner of the screen.

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Type autocorrect to find the autocorrect settings menu.

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Click Autocorrect misspelled words . This option will appear at the top of the Start menu.

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Click the “On” switch

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located below the “Autocorrect misspelled words” heading. Autocorrect spelling will be disabled for programs (including WhatsApp) on Windows 10 computers.

On Mac

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Open the Apple menu

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. Click the Apple icon in the upper left corner of the screen. A menu will drop down.

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Click System Preferences… (Customize System). This option is near the top of the drop-down menu.

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Click Keyboard on the System Preferences window. A new window will open.

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Click Text . This tab is at the top of the Keyboard window.

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Uncheck the “Correct spelling automatically” box at the top of the Keyboard window. Mac programs (including WhatsApp) will stop automatically correcting errors as you type.

Advice

With Android, it is possible that the keyboard options will have a slightly different name than in the article. For example, your Android device will have a menu item Language & keyboard instead of Languages & input .

Warning

Since WhatsApp does not allow us to disable the autocorrect feature exclusively for messages on the application, disabling the auto-correct option will also disable this feature on other messaging or input applications.

Steps