If you searched how to set auto type in WhatsApp, you want the phone to offer the next word, or to finish the word you started. WhatsApp did not hide a row named Auto type in chat settings.
People use “auto type” for the strip of words above the keys, and sometimes for the keyboard completing a word as you type. The control is whichever keyboard is open in the chat. If that keyboard lists a row called Auto type, the row belongs to the keyboard. WhatsApp will not add one.
We cannot turn it on. We are not WhatsApp Support.
Auto type is the keyboard, not a WhatsApp menu.
WhatsApp has no Auto type switch. Shmooz can rewrite a draft you paste. We cannot turn the bar on.
Where to look
- Android, usually Gboard — open a chat, tap the message field, then the gear on the keyboard. Look for suggestions, suggest words, or a row your phone actually labels Auto type. There is no matching row inside WhatsApp.
- Samsung Keyboard — suggest text and auto replace live in Samsung Keyboard. If the chat is using Gboard, the Samsung row does nothing.
- iPhone — Settings → General → Keyboard → Predictive. A third-party keyboard ignores that switch.
- You want it off — same keyboard, the other direction. Turn off the suggestion row you turned on. The page titled turn off predictive text stays the off switch for the words “predictive text.” We are not retitling it.
Pages that stay as they are
- Word suggestions is this bar under that name. That page stays word suggestions on WhatsApp. This page is only “auto type.”
- Predictive text is the same bar again. The turn-on steps stay on predictive text on WhatsApp. We are not changing that title.
- It changes letters after you type — autocorrect, not auto type. WhatsApp spell checker keeps its title. Most of the “auto type” searches were landing there. If correction stopped, see spell check not working.
- The bar used to appear, and then it stopped — predictive text not working.
If the word the keyboard offers is not the sentence you meant, paste the draft into Shmooz. That does not install auto type into WhatsApp. You send the message yourself.
Auto type is the keyboard, not a WhatsApp menu.
WhatsApp has no Auto type switch. Shmooz can rewrite a draft you paste. We cannot turn the bar on.
FAQ
I turned suggestions on and WhatsApp still has no auto type.
The chat is probably using a different keyboard than the one you changed. There is no second Auto type switch inside WhatsApp.
Can you turn auto type on for me?
No. The control is on that phone. We do not publish a support number.
Are you WhatsApp?
No. An app that promises to add an Auto type row inside WhatsApp is not WhatsApp.
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