[Tip] Stop Windows 10 from Collecting Your Typing Insights Data

Windows 10 comes with several features to assist users in typing using hardware keyboard as well as software keyboard (or touch keyboard). As soon as you start typing in web browsers, text editors, etc, Windows 10 starts showing text suggestions and highlighting/autocorrecting misspelled words. Apart from text suggestions and autocorrect feature, Windows 10 also provides other typing features such as automatically add space/period, capitalize first letter of sentences, swipe on touch keyboard to type, etc.

Windows 10 uses AI (Artificial Intelligence) to provide these typing assist features such as suggesting words, autocorrecting spelling mistakes, etc.

When Windows 10 helps users when they are typing, it also collects typing data in form of Typing Insights. Typing Insights data lets users know a report containing following:

• Autocompleted words
• Suggested words
• Keystrokes saved
• Spelling corrections
• Swiped words

Many Windows 10 users may not like this behavior and may want to disable Typing Insights feature so that Windows 10 doesn’t store all above mentioned data.

This tutorial will help you in preventing and restricting Windows 10 from storing Typing Insights data. Microsoft has provided a built-in option to turn off Typing Insights feature which can be used to stop Windows 10 from gathering users typing insights data.

If you also want to disable Typing Insights feature in Windows 10, following steps will help you:

1. Open Settings app from Start Menu or by pressing WIN+I keys together.

2. Now go to “Devices -> Typing” section.

PS: Alternatively, You can directly launch this page using “ms-settings:typing” command in RUN dialog box as mentioned here.

3. Now in right-side pane, look for “How AI has helped you” section.

Click on “Typing insights” link given under this section.

4. It’ll open Typing Insights page which shows a report of autocompleted words, suggested words, etc.

Now set the toggle given under “Typing insights” to OFF to disable Typing Insights feature.

That’s it. You have successfully disabled Typing Insights feature in Windows 10.

BONUS TIP: Turn Off Autocorrections and Text Suggestions

You can also disable following options on Settings -> Devices -> Typing page to completely stop Windows 10 from using AI and providing assistance when you type:

Spelling

• Autocorrect misspelled words
• Highlight misspelled words

Typing

• Show text suggestions as I type on the software keyboard
• Add a space after I choose a text suggestion
• Add a period after I double-tap the Spacebar

Touch keyboard

• Capitalize first letter of each sentence
• Use all uppercase letters when I double-tap shift

Hardware keyboard

• Show text suggestions as I type
• Autocorrect misspelled words I type

Multilingual text suggestions

• Show text suggestions based on the recognized languages you’re typing in

More keyboard settings

Click on “Suggestions and autocorrections” link. Now turn off the toggle buttons given next to all languages given under “Choose which languages use SwiftKey suggestions and autocorrections” section.

The above option will disable SwiftKey text suggestions and autocorrections on touch keyboard. Windows 10 October 2018 Update and later come with SwiftKey keyboard support in touch keyboard which provides users autocorrections and predictions by learning their writing style including words, phrases and emojis.

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