For starters, there are two different ways to get into the Gboard settings menu. If you’re in the midst of using the keyboard, you tap the gear icon just to the right of the middle of the row of icons over the top row of the keyboard. Otherwise, if you open Gboard from the app drawer, you go directly to the settings menu. (There’s also a quick settings menu denoted by the two by two row of squares on the far left side of that icon row above the top row of keys, but it doesn’t include the autocorrect preferences by default.) Once in the settings menu, tap “Text Correction” to access to autocorrect menu.
Most of the autocorrect settings are controlled by toggle switches without the ability to do any fine-tuned tweaking. They tend to be pretty self-explanatory, if just because most of the settings have short descriptions elaborating on what they do. The only one without such an explanation is Smart Compose, which makes suggestions based on your writing history and if it thinks you’re in the middle of typing commonly used phrases.
Otherwise, what settings you want to tweak depends on whether your personal usage of Gboard has resulted in any autocorrect behavior that you’d like to change. This includes an “Auto-Correction” toggle that you can switch off if your problem with Gboard’s autocorrect is simply that you’d rather not use the feature at all.
