How to Remove Text Emphasis in Xiaomi Notes: The Complete Guide

Xiaomi, Redmi and POCO smartphone owners often experience intrusive typing behavior, where words are automatically underlined with a red or blue line, a standard spell-checking and grammar feature built into the system keyboard to help users avoid errors, but in some situations, such as entering specific terms, names or codes, this feature becomes a serious irritant that interferes with normal perception of information.

To make matters worse, MIUI shells and the new HyperOS can have text input settings scattered across menus or hidden inside the keyboard itself. Users often confuse the underlining of the error with the formatting of text inside the Notes app itself. It’s important to understand that the problem is not the application, but the input method you’re using.

In this article, we will take a look at all the ways you can disable this feature, from standard system settings to advanced methods for power users, learn how to control the keyboard dictionary, disable the predictive set, and understand why text behaves this way, which will allow you to work comfortably with text documents on your device.

The Nature of Emphasis: Error or Formatting?

Before we start to disable functions, we need to be clear about what we're fighting against. In the vast majority of cases, the red wavy line under a word means that it's missing from the keyboard dictionary and is recognized as a spelling error. Blue or green underlining can indicate a grammatical error or an auto-replacement proposal. This behavior is typical of the Gboard, SwiftKey and the standard Sogou keyboard preinstalled on many global versions.

There is also a rare case where a user accidentally activates formatting mode inside the Notes app, in which case the text can be underlined as a title or an important part of the list. However, if a line appears at the time of printing and disappears after selecting a word from the prompt list, it is solely about the keyboard settings, and distinguishing these states is critical to choosing the right solution method.

It's worth noting that today's AI algorithms in keyboards are constantly being trained. If you often ignore corrections and choose a word you write, the system can memorize it. However, for complete comfort and no visual noise, it's better to set up the input system correctly once than constantly fight autocorrection.

⚠️ Warning: Disabling spell check completely can lead to more typos in important documents, and it is recommended to turn off this function only while entering specific data or use a personal dictionary.

Different smartphone models, whether the flagship Xiaomi 14 or the budget Redmi Note, use the same system libraries to enter text, so the instructions are universal for the entire ecosystem running on Android with a shell from the Chinese manufacturer.

Disabling spell check in system settings

The most reliable way to remove annoying lines is to go to the operating system’s global language and input settings, which works regardless of which keyboard is installed by default, as it manages the basic Android service, and you need to get into your device’s settings menu first.

Go to Settings → Additional Settings → Language and input. Some firmware versions may have slightly different paths: Settings → System and device → Language and input. Find the section responsible for keyboard management. Here we are interested in "Spelling Check" or "Spelling".

In the menu that opens, you'll see the switch that's active by default. Deactivate it. After that, the system will stop checking the words you type with the dictionary and highlighting them in red. The changes will take effect instantly, you won't need to restart the device.

If you use a third-party keyboard, like Google Gboard, it can ignore the system settings and use its own, so you have to go into the settings of the keyboard app itself, and users often forget this nuance and think that the system settings didn't work.

Setting up the Gboard keyboard on Xiaomi

Gboard is the most popular keyboard installed on global versions of Xiaomi smartphones. It has a powerful but complex settings menu. To remove the underline, open any application that requires text input and call the keyboard. Click on the gear icon in the top of the keyboard.

In the settings menu, select the text correction section. This is the key toggle "Spell Check." Turn it off. Also in this section, you can find the "Show Suggestions" setting, which will remove the word bar above the keyboard, which often visually clutters the screen.

For those who want to leave the checkout but only remove red lines in certain applications, Gboard offers flexible settings. However, in standard functionality, this works globally. If you type in multiple languages often, make sure that the checkout is disabled for all active languages on the list.

The interface of settings may change slightly, but the logic remains the same: look for sections related to text, correction, and spelling.

Manage the standard Xiaomi keyboard (Sogou)

Chinese firmware and some CIS regions have a default Sogou keyboard adapted for Xiaomi, which can be entirely in Chinese, which is a challenge for users, and to remove the underline, you need to find the keyboard settings.

Usually the settings icon is in the top bar of the keyboard (a four-square icon or a gear) and you need to find a section marked by characters that mean "Input settings" (often a gear).

If the interface is in Chinese, look for visual cues. Look for green sliders and turn off the ones in the text-related sections. Often, resetting the keyboard to factory settings if you're confused in the menu helps.

Owners of devices with HyperOS should be more careful, as in the new shell, some menu items have been renamed or moved to the “Advanced Settings” section inside the keyboard itself.

Use of a personal dictionary for exceptions

If you don't like the constant emphasis on specific words (like last names, company names, or technical terms), but you don't want to turn off spell check altogether, there's a more elegant solution. You can add those words to your personal keyboard vocabulary.

In Gboard settings, this is done through the Personal Dictionary section» → «All languages." Press «+» And you type in a word that you don't want to emphasize, and then the system will think it's correct, and that's the perfect trade-off between text literacy and no visual noise.

This method is especially useful for users who are in business correspondence and can not afford to completely turn off grammar checks. You keep the protection against typos in ordinary words, but remove the stimulus in professional vocabulary.

Remember that your personal vocabulary syncs with your Google account (in the case of Gboard), which means that your settings will remain even when you upgrade to a new Xiaomi smartphone.

Solving formatting problems in the app Notes

Sometimes users confuse spell checking with the features of the Notes app itself. This app has formatting modes that can emphasize text. For example, if you create a to-do list, the system can emphasize completed items.

To remove this formatting, highlight the underlined text and look at the toolbar that appears above the keyboard or in the call menu (three dots). There may be buttons "Fat", "Curse" or "Title style" active. Click on them again to reset the formatting to normal text.

There's also a checklist feature in the Notes app, so if you accidentally switch to this mode, a circle will appear before each item, and the text can behave specificly, and switch the block type to "Regular Text" in the formatting menu.

⚠️ Note: If the text is highlighted only in the Notes app, but WhatsApp or Telegram is displayed normally, the problem is precisely in the app settings, not in the system.

Recent updates to MIUI have added the ability to change the themes of note design, and some themes can visually distort text by adding decorative elements that can be mistaken for underlining.

Alternative keyboards as a radical solution

If standard techniques don't help or the built-in keyboards seem too overloaded with features, consider installing an alternative solution from Google Play.There are plenty of minimalist keyboards that don't have a built-in spell check by default.

Popular options like Simple Keyboard or OpenBoard offer clean text input without intrusive prompts and underline, and they consume less battery life, which is true for low-end models like Redmi and POCO.

It takes a couple of minutes to install this keyboard, and then go to the language and input settings and select the new application as the default, and it's guaranteed to save you from system underline, because these apps don't have that code.

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When you install a new keyboard, Xiaomi's system can display a security warning. This is standard procedure for all non-system keyboards. Feel free to press OK if you download the app from the official store.

Choosing a keyboard is a matter of taste. Some people like smart clues, and some people just need a screen with letters. Experiment to find the perfect balance.

Frequent questions and additional nuances

In this section, we've collected answers to questions that users often have during the setup process, and if you're facing an unusual situation, you may already have the answer here.

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Most text problems are solved by switching the input language or restarting the device, so don’t rush to reset the settings to factory.

Remember that software failures can occur after a firmware update. If the settings go wrong on their own, check them again after each major MIUI update.