Gmail is one of the best email services, and there is no doubt. No matter whether you are a student or an office employee, you can certainly use Gmail to connect with people. Gmail is popular because of several reasons. It comes with tons of features, options, and it is available for Android, iOS, etc. A few weeks ago, Google rolled out a new feature called “Smart Compose.” If you have been using Gmail web version, you might get it earlier. However, mobile app users have recently got it. If you are wondering how to use this feature or even how to enable or disable it, you can check out this article.

What is Smart Compose in Gmail?

As the name suggests, Smart Compose helps you compose an email. No matter if you are sending email to your friend or your boss, you can certainly use Smart Compose functionality in Gmail.

Many times we try to write an email quickly. If you often face that problem, Smart Compose might help you. With the help of this functionality, you can write emails very quickly and much better than before. Basically, it helps you finish the sentence for you. For example, if you write, “Hello, how are you?”, You do not have to write the whole sentence. Smart Compose can guess the sentence and complete it for you. This is just one example. You can use it for any purpose. The best thing about this feature is it guesses smartly and almost 70-80% correctly. As this is an AI-based feature, you cannot expect it to be correct all the times. Sometimes you might need a different word, and something else is appearing by Smart Compose. It happens frequently. But, if you can use it properly, it will be very beneficial for you.

Availability of Smart Compose

Smart Compose feature is available for the web version of Gmail for a long time now. However, mobile app users didn’t get it alongside the web version. If you are a Pixel user, you might get it earlier. But, if you have other Android phones, you can find this feature on your mobile. A few days back, Google has made this option available for users so that people can use it to get more out of Gmail app. In a nutshell, you can find this feature in the Gmail app for Android, and web version of Gmail.

How to Enable Smart Compose in Gmail Web or Android App?

It doesn’t matter whether you are the web version of Gmail or the Android app; the usage of this feature is almost similar. The only difference is the gesture or key that you need to use to on both interfaces. You do not need to do anything to enable Smart Compose in Gmail web or Android app since Google has turned it on for you. That said, you can simply open the Gmail app or the gmail.com and start writing an email to check how it works.

On gmail.com, you can find the sentence like this-

Obviously, you need to start writing the email to get the sentence. As mentioned in the image, you can press the TAB button to use a guessed sentence.

However, if you are the Gmail app for Android, you can swipe from left to right to get the sentence in your email.

This is as simple as said. Not only the first sentence but also it can guess any word/sentence in the last line as well. No matter whether you are writing an email with or without attachment, you can find it working almost flawlessly.

If you do not like this feature and you want to write your email manually, you can disable Smart Compose feature. This is possible to disable it on Gmail for Web as well as Android app of Gmail.

How to Disable Smart Compose in Gmail Web?

To turn off or disable Smart Compose in Gmail web, do follow these steps.

• Open your Gmail account.
• Click the setting gear button and select Settings.
• In the General tab, find out Smart Compose.
• By default, it should be set to “Writing suggestions on.” You need to select the other option, which says “Writing suggestions off.”

Now you won’t get the Smart Compose in your Gmail account.

How to Disable Smart Compose in Gmail for Android?

To turn off or disable Smart Compose in Gmail for Android, do follow these steps.

• Open the Gmail app.
• Tap the button which looks like three horizontal lines and select Settings.
• Select the Gmail account if you have multiple accounts in your mobile.
• Here you can find a checkbox says Smart Compose. You need to remove the tick from the checkbox.

That’s it! Now you cannot find the Smart Compose feature in your Gmail account.

Note: Smart Compose feature is an account-based feature. That means if you disable it for one account, the change won’t appear in another account. You need to disable or enable it for a particular account.