I have disabled the Writing Assist feature on my new Samsung S26 and also signed out of my samsung account. I have tried switching to the Gboard keyboard, but still the annoying sparkles show up at the typing cursor in all apps. Clicking on it goes to the Samsung Galaxy AI sign in page. The icon shows up when you haven't written anything or when you are highlighting text. If a user disables the feature it should be removed from the cursor. It is frustrating having low effort LLM features stuffed into every aspect of my daily life even after I turn them off.
vem9chn22
Cosmic Ray
10-14-2026 09:02 PM
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The Galaxy AI shortcut is present in all apps, using all keyboards. I tested with both keyboards, confirmed writing assist off, and then also completely logged out of my samsung account. all combinations showed the AI pop up in the tool tip.
Gmail using the Samsung keyboard:
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vem9chn22
Cosmic Ray
10-28-2026 10:03 PM
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in GBoard settings the last option is "writing tools" which is greyed out. It appears that "writing tools" is that star pop up that is greyed out, and set to on. It is unclear if it is locked on or not used. But when clicking on it, it goes to samsung's "powerful writing and editing tools" so it seems like samsung has made an OS level decision to hardcode this to be on, even if users desire it another way.
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