How do I turn off spell check in Teams?

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2026-01-20T09:24:32.5266667+00:00

How do I turn off spellcheck in teams? Only in a recent update it started happening that while I was typing Dutch messages (I type in Dutch and English to colleagues), it keeps autocorrecting to English. I get this little revert / cog icon whenever it happens. I've clicked on the cog and it brings me to the General Teams settings page where I see the option to "Manage" Editor spellcheck:
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But when I click that, there's no off button. I can add up to 3 languages, but those don't save.
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It is very frustrating...

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  1. Burian Tomáš 0 Reputation points
    2026-09-23T13:55:05.9433333+00:00

    Entering the fall of 2026 and there is still no fix for the issue. You forced us to use Teams instead of Skype and can't keep the app useful. There are more bugs than this one.

    You need to pick this up and fix all this.

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  2. Remco Veenstra 0 Reputation points
    2026-07-20T07:15:31.31+00:00

    I had the exact same problem, languages can't be saved and no other settings visible.

    What helped for me was opening Teams in a browser (https://teams.microsoft.com). There, the settings were available and I was able to turn off auto-correct. Also, the languages were visible there (Dutch, English and also en-nl).

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  3. Michaël Van Bogaert 0 Reputation points
    2026-06-22T14:21:40.32+00:00

    Also here, I cannot disable spell check. I also text in English and Dutch. I have to search for words and letters between unjustified red lines. I disabled spell check, but everything remain red underlined. As an aside, I cannot make text bold. No matter what I try. You are a bunch of losers Microsoft. Instead of completing knowledge or add to existing knowledge, you know how go back into primitieve digital times, all the while we already know how to make things work.

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  4. Javier Casares 0 Reputation points
    2026-05-20T09:26:09.5033333+00:00

    I'm having the same issue reported here, and there are no settings in Editor spellcheck.

    Clicking manage I go to a screen with no languages, and if I add one and then go back, it still keeps showing no options to disable spell correction.

    User's image It is really a mess to work with when everything has a recommendation to fix because it's checking another language.

    Just updated and running 26106.1911.4707.3286.

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  5. Marian B 0 Reputation points
    2026-04-02T09:39:44.15+00:00

    I don't know if these settings are related, but in the "Language and regional formats", I have the "Follow OS settings" option checked and my App language is English (United States), see the image below.

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    Also, I only added English (United States) in the Editor spellchecker.

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    I don't know if this worked for me for other reasons, but maybe this helps somebody else too.

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