S23 Ultra turn off handwriting mode

[DavidC1857]

I've already tried to go into the handwriting settings and turning s-pen detection off. It doesn't work.

[LongHiker · Accepted solution]

@DavidC1857 The setting is in phone settings -> Advanced -> S Pen and is called S Pen to text. If you turn that off, it will not enable the ability to use the S Pen in any text entry field. 

If that doesn't work for you, please explain in more detail where you are seeing this ability but do not want it to appear. 

[angelchained]

Thanks, bookmarked just in case I need to revise my settings on my S23. I appreciate your help.

[DavidC1857]

Thank you so much. That fixed it.

Basically, every time I tried to use the pen in any text input field, I got handwriting mode. I prefer GBoard over the Samsung keyboard but it was doing it in both.

I wouldn't mind trying out handwriting mode. But it appeared automatically after an update and I could not turn it off. I googled everything I could think of and all I could find was the s-pen setting.

Thanks.