Subject: Unable to Disable Spell Check in ChatGPT Windows App
Hello OpenAI Support Team,
I’m encountering an issue with the ChatGPT Windows app where spell check functionality seems to be enabled despite my OS settings having all spell check options turned off. I have verified that autocorrect and highlighting of misspelled words are disabled in my Windows settings.
Could you confirm if the ChatGPT app has an internal spell-check feature, and if so, guide me on how to disable it? If this is not currently possible, I’d like to suggest including such an option in future updates.
I concur, as a fellow multi-language windows user it is very annoying to use the app with constant squiggles. Windows options are turned off, registry has been browsed and nothing was found except the confirmation that the app is in English and yet it STILL shows the spellcheck. Please
Okay so this has bothered me for a while and I finally had enough and looked into it. Turns out you can disable it by editing the Preferences file in the root folder (on Windows, anyway).
The folder is installed, at least for me, in \AppData\Local\Packages\OpenAI.ChatGPT-Desktop_2p2nqsd0c76g0\LocalCache\Roaming\ChatGPT.
In there you should find the Preferences file, which you can open up in notepad or a code editor, then simply remove whatever language is found in ‘dictionairies’. For example:
"dictionaries":["en-US"] → "dictionaries":[""]
Then end the ChatGPT process if it’s open and it should no longer spell check you in any language when you get back in. This did it for me anyway, hope this helps!