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Xiaomi: Turn Contact Suggestions On or Off

When Contact suggestions are active on a Xiaomi phone, the keyboard pulls names, numbers and email addresses from your Contacts app while you type messages or fill out forms. That can be handy for quick replies, but it also means personal details from your address book show up as autocomplete hints in apps that have nothing to do with Contacts. If you want tighter control over what your keyboard suggests, this setting is the one to check.

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Turn On/Off Contact Suggestions auf Xiaomi

Contact suggestions are a keyboard feature in MIUI on Android. When active, the keyboard checks your saved contacts and offers matching names, phone numbers or email addresses as you type in messaging apps, browsers or any text field.

This is useful for quickly finishing a message to someone in your address book. It becomes a problem when you type in apps unrelated to messaging and personal contact data still pops up as a suggestion, or when you share your device and do not want contact details surfacing during input.

The setting lives inside the keyboard configuration, not in the Contacts app itself. To change it, go to Tap on SettingsTap on Additional settingsTap on Languages & inputTap on Manage keyboardsTap on SettingsTap on Text correctionEnable or disable Suggest Contacts.

Turning the toggle off stops the keyboard from reading your Contacts list for suggestions. Turning it on restores autocomplete hints based on saved contact data.

If autocomplete still feels inaccurate after adjusting this toggle, the issue is more likely general text prediction or dictionary settings rather than Contact suggestions specifically.

Frequently asked questions

Contact suggestions work across any text field, not only messaging apps, because the keyboard applies the same setting everywhere. Disable it through Tap on SettingsTap on Additional settingsTap on Languages & inputTap on Manage keyboardsTap on SettingsTap on Text correctionEnable or disable Suggest Contacts if you only want it active in messaging.