Grammarly users are frustrated after the company quietly discontinued its Quick Fix feature, which let people press Tab to instantly correct all grammar and spelling errors in one go. The feature, which launched in beta last year, made fixing mistakes a breeze for anyone who lives on their keyboard all day.
The official support page confirms that Grammarly has pulled the plug on Quick Fix, citing “user feedback, usage data, and usability testing results” as reasons for the retirement. Instead, the company wants users to rely on paragraph-level rewrites and other AI-powered suggestions that require more clicking and reviewing. But that explanation isn’t sitting well with the people who actually used the feature daily.
Multiple Reddit threads have popped up with users venting their disappointment. One user on r/Grammarly shared their frustration, saying they thought their computer was broken when Tab stopped working.
Another pointed out the obvious solution that Grammarly seems to have missed: just make it a toggle in the settings so people who want it can keep using it. Several users mentioned they’re now clicking through corrections manually, which defeats the entire purpose of having a productivity tool in the first place.
The backlash spans different types of users too. Office workers and students who write constantly are particularly annoyed because Quick Fix saved them tons of time during their workday. One user who works in an office and attends school full-time said they pay too much money each month to manually correct every single comma and spelling mistake. Another user flat-out said Quick Fix was the only reason they used Grammarly, and they’ve already canceled their Pro subscription over this change.
What makes this decision stranger is that some users actually find the current alternative worse. The paragraph-level suggestions that Grammarly is pushing require reaching for the mouse, reviewing longer blocks of text, and making decisions on rewrites that go beyond simple grammar fixes. For people who just want to fix a typo in a Slack message or email, that’s serious overkill. One user joked that if they’re already grabbing their mouse, they might as well paste everything into ChatGPT instead.
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Dwayne Cubbins
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