Stop Gboard from changing the text I type

Question

I recently acquired a Motorola Moto G34 with Android 14 installed. The keyboard is Gboard, without any add-ons or extra languages. As I type, on any application, the keyboard keeps modifying the words, especially capitalising the first character and changing singular to plural, but also adds strange accents, sometimes just replacing the word for another.

In the Settings menu, all I can find is the spell checker, which is switched off. In any case, whatever the keyboard software is doing, it certainly isn't spell-checking. I suspect it is some kind of "AI" meant to help, that does anything but.

How can I stop Gboard from changing the text I type?

Answer 1

You can click on the settings icon at the top of the keyboard. Open the keyboard like this:

Click on the Text correction settings like this.

Then try turning off Smart compose setting or Auto-capitalization settings.

If this doesn't fix the issue, go back to the main settings of the keyboard (where Text correction settings are present) and click on Languages. Check that your language is installed and is at the top of the list of languages.

Answer 2

The information gathered from the discussion so far makes it clear this is a problem with a particular application (Gboard) and not a system issue. The spell-checking setting is inactive system wide.

Therefore a solution is to simply install a different keyboard software. In my case I have been using Unexpected Keyboard since yesterday and it is pretty competent.