Use Smart Compose in Gmail - Computer (2024)

With Smart Compose, powered by machine learning, you can write emails faster. Smart Compose offers suggestions as you enter text.

Important:

• Smart Compose is available in English, Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese.
• Smart Compose is not designed to provide answers and may not always predict factually correct information.
• Smart Compose is a Google Account-level setting. Changes to Smart Compose settings are applied on any device where your account is signed in.
• To use Smart Compose, you must turn on smart features and controls. Learn more about smart features and controls in Google products.

Turn Smart Compose on or off

Important: By default, Gmail automatically offers suggestions.

1. On your computer, open Gmail.
2. In the top right corner, click Settings See all settings.
3. Under “General,” scroll down to "Smart Compose."
4. Select Writing suggestions on or Writing suggestions off.

Tip: To accept a suggestion, on your keyboard, press Tab.

Turn custom suggestions on or off

Important: By default, Gmail automatically offers suggestions based on your writing style.

1. On your computer, open Gmail.
2. In the top right corner, click Settings See all settings.
3. Under “General,” scroll down to "Smart Compose personalization."
4. Select Personalization on or Personalization off.

Learn about custom suggestions

Smart Compose personalized suggestions are tailored to the way you normally write, to maintain your writing style. Only you see your own private, personalized suggestions for your account. No other users, including administrators for your organization, can see your personalized suggestions. When personalization is turned off, you see generic suggestions as you type.

Send feedback about Smart Compose

You can send feedback after you use Smart Compose. We can’t respond to all feedback, but it can help us improve.

1. On your computer, open Gmail.
2. In the top right corner, click Settings See all settings.
3. Under “General,” scroll down to "Smart Compose."
4. Click Feedback on Smart Compose suggestions.
5. Select the issue that describes your feedback.
   • If you select “Other,” write a description of the issue.
6. Click Submit.

Learn about machine learning

As language understanding models use billions of common phrases and sentences to automatically learn about the world, they can also reflect human cognitive biases. Being aware of this is a good start, and the conversation around how to handle it is ongoing. Google is committed to making products that work well for everyone, and are actively researching unintended bias and mitigation strategies.