Ionic - How to disable keyboard suggestions on Android keyboard

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I've tried all ion-textarea possibilities such as type="email" and so on, I can't make it work on all Android versions.
I've installed cordova-plugin-ionic-keyboard, which shows the keyboard without suggestions (Image A). But when I tap the ion-textarea, the native keyboard shows instead (Image B).

How can I solve this, either disabling suggestions on the native keyboard or having the Cordova plugin replace the native keyboard for my ion-textarea, or maybe something else? Thanks!

Image A

Image B

Jean-Pierre Fortin · Accepted Answer · 2019-02-01T02:47:29.410

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Finally, on my Pixel with Android 9 <ion-textarea inputmode="email"></ion-textarea> worked :).

edited Feb 01 '19 at 02:47

answered Jan 31 '19 at 03:07

Jean-Pierre Fortin

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 10 '19 at 14:07

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Try autocomplete="off" tag

Up until at least Android 4.4 in cordova apps, the html5 attribute autocomplete="off" not have any effect. However on Android 6 the autocomplete="off" does work! So it depends on the Android version.

It does indeed work for most devices, but for Samsung devices it does not work as they use their own keyboard which doesn't respect html attributes for autocomplete.

source here

answered Jan 10 '19 at 14:07

Kevin Dias

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Thanks for helping. I've made a blank project and add this single line in ion-content: . The suggestions shows on my Pixel, Android version 9. What do I do wrong? – Jean-Pierre Fortin Jan 26 '19 at 19:33
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autocomplete="off" works with normal inputs not ionic inputs – Kevin Dias Jan 28 '19 at 12:24
Finally, on my Pixel with Android 9 only worked! Thanks for telling me to use input instead of ion-input. But nothing works with textarea so far :(. – Jean-Pierre Fortin Jan 31 '19 at 05:42

Ionic - How to disable keyboard suggestions on Android keyboard

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