How do I disable 'Turn on Suggestions' feature in text boxes in InDesign?

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I do not know when this feature was rolled out, but now when I’m in InDesign, every text box has an icon with a blue pencil icon that when I hover over it its says ‘Turn on Suggestions’. I keep accidentally clicking on it. I want to disable this feature as it is interrupting my workflow!  I want to have these AI features disabled.

CORCTON34033231 · Answer

Hi Jill — that blue pencil is the new Copy Suggestions feature in InDesign. You can turn it off in Preferences:

Go to Edit > Preferences (on Mac: InDesign > Settings).
2. To switch off the copy suggestions — the pencil icon on text frames — choose Generative AI and clear “Enable Copy Suggestion”.
3. To also switch off the grammar suggestions (the blue squiggly underlines), choose Spelling & Grammar and clear “Enable Grammar Check”.

That should stop the icon appearing on your text frames.

Adobe’s help page for this (see “Turn suggestions on or off”):https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/desktop/add-and-manage-text/add-and-import-text/generate-text-variations.html

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