But if you are emailing a lot and you meticulously manage your contact list, then those auto-complete suggestions can become an issue. Fortunately you will not need to figure out a way to navigate through them based on your own usage patterns. Rather you can simply turn off the auto-complete option so that Gmail will only offer the auto-complete option for people that you have manually added to your Gmail contacts.
How to Stop Gmail from Suggesting Every New Person I Email
The steps in this article are going to change a setting for Gmail when you access it through a Web browser like Google Chrome or Firefox. once you complete these steps, Google will no longer automatically add every new email recipient to your auto-complete list. You will need to manually create contacts to do that from now on. Step 1: Navigate to your Gmail inbox at https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox and sign in if you haven’t already. Step 2: Click the gear icon at the top-right of the window, then click the Settings option.
Step 3: Scroll down to the Create contacts for auto-complete section, then check the circle to the left of the I’ll add contacts myself option.
Step 4: Scroll to the bottom of this menu and click the Save changes button.
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