How to Disable Gmail's Annoying New "Smart Compose" Predictive Typing Feature

Lauren Weinstein writes: My foundational complaint here isn’t that Google deployed Smart Compose, but rather that they enabled it by default without providing users even basic related information, including the all important “How the hell do I turn this damned thing off?” — the very question filling my inbox of late!

So here’s how you turn it off. It’s easy, IF you know how.