# A new irritating quirk with Mac Mail

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 19, 2025, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-irritating-quirk-with-mac-mail/1019866 "2025-06-19T21:46:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2025, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-irritating-quirk-with-mac-mail/1019866/1 "2025-06-19T21:46:16Z")

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Using a Mac Mini with M1 chip, circa 2020. 8 Gigs Ram. Running Mac OS Sequoia 15.5

Somewhere in the last few OS updates, an amazingly irritating bug has emerged.

I use a few Gmail accounts and a work account not in any way associated with GMail.

When I compose an email, or reply to an incoming email, I cannot send it if any spelling error is detected. THAT is normal, I am offered the chance to correct or leave alone. Then I used to click “close”, the red button and the email would send.

No longer. Now at the end of the spell-checking process on an email, I click the red button and the email does not send. I am given the option to Save or Edit or Delete the email. Obviously I want it to go out so I hit Save.

THEN I have to go into Drafts, and open it. And hit the paper airplane icon to Send. And go through the Spell-Check again. Only after that, when I hit the red button at the upper left of the Spell-Check menu, does the email launch out.

Anyone else? It’s a titanic irritant.

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**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-irritating-quirk-with-mac-mail/1019866/2 "2025-06-20T11:58:39Z")

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Is spell-check something turned on on your end? I have used Mail for a couple decades now and have never been nagged on spelling when sending an email.

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**Author:** ![zbuzz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zbuzz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zbuzz)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-irritating-quirk-with-mac-mail/1019866/3 "2025-06-20T12:54:20Z")

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What happens when you click “Edit,” then just don’t edit anything and try sending again?

Or try changing the “Check Spelling” setting from “When I Click Send” to “As I Type” or “Never,” quit Mail, restart Mail, then change the setting back to “When I Click Send” and see if that cleared things up.

Mail \> Settings \> Composing \> Check Spelling \> set it to “As I Type” or “Never”

Or can you live with just leaving the spelling checker at “Never” or “As I Type?”

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**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2025, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-irritating-quirk-with-mac-mail/1019866/4 "2025-06-20T16:36:17Z")

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Well thank you so much. Indeed, turning Spelling Check off did the trick. It must have been toggled on automatically or somesuch in the last OS upgrade.

Asked and Answered ! 🙂