Disabling autocompletion completely in VS 2022

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Disabling autocompletion completely in VS 2022

Tom Hamilton 0

VS 2022 IntelliSense auto completion is a productivity killer. I spend as much time deleting what it inserts as I do trying to enter code. If I hit return after completing a line of code IntelliSense auto completion presents it's suggestion, which generally isn't what I want to type. But because editor start new line at left margin. Requiring me to stop typing, grab my mouse, and move the cursor to the correct tab location.

I would like to be able to tab cursor over but cant because VS 2022 takes that to mean I want the wrong code suggested by IntelliSense.

Is there any way to completely disable these suggestions? All I can find is recommendation to "Disabling autocompletion from anything else than Tab in VS 2022". I want to disable such auto completion because it is wasting my time!

Anna Xiu-MSFT 30,956 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2024-12-17T06:19:49.6966667+00:00

Hello, may I know if you have got any chance to check my answer? I am glad to help if you have any other questions.
Scott Norberg 0 Reputation points

2025-01-24T16:44:04.8866667+00:00

I absolutely agree that this is a time killer, I keep thinking that there must be something I have missed just because the intellisense is so bad and obtrusive. I must have looked for a way to turn this off for months. When I saw this post I went looking again, this time looking in the general Text editor options rather than just the C# options.

By turning off the Responsive code completion I was able to get rid of most of the non-sense that is being added to my code.

I hope this helps someone, It was drivning me crazy.
Nicholas Kouwen 0 Reputation points

2025-04-17T19:40:40.15+00:00

Did not work for me

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Anna Xiu-MSFT 30,956 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2024-12-17T06:19:49.6966667+00:00

Hello, may I know if you have got any chance to check my answer? I am glad to help if you have any other questions.
Scott Norberg 0 Reputation points

2025-01-24T16:44:04.8866667+00:00

I absolutely agree that this is a time killer, I keep thinking that there must be something I have missed just because the intellisense is so bad and obtrusive. I must have looked for a way to turn this off for months. When I saw this post I went looking again, this time looking in the general Text editor options rather than just the C# options.

By turning off the Responsive code completion I was able to get rid of most of the non-sense that is being added to my code.

I hope this helps someone, It was drivning me crazy.
Nicholas Kouwen 0 Reputation points

2025-04-17T19:40:40.15+00:00

Did not work for me

Answer 1

Hi @Tom Hamilton,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A!

The autocompletion feature is hard to disable completely. To disable it, I suppose the best option is to toggle IntelliSense completion mode by pressing shortcut Ctrl+Alt+Space. Or you can change the default IntelliSense completion mode to Tab-only: Tools > Options > Text Editor > Advanced > Default IntelliSense completion mode: > select Tab-only in the dropdown.

If you use the C# language, maybe you can try the third-party extension to disable it.

Sincerely,

Anna

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Nicholas Kouwen 0 Reputation points

2025-04-17T19:45:20.58+00:00

Tab only does not work either

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Scott Norberg 0

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Hope this helps someone, works for me.

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