Among Us is a game all about communication. Working with your crewmates, accusing people, and ejecting the imposters. Among Us offers a quick chat feature that lets you select pre-written phrases, but you may wish to turn this off so that you can type freely.

We're going to show you how to disable quick chat in Among Us.

What Is Quick Chat in Among Us?

In early 2021, developer Innersloth added a quick chat functionality to Among Us. It lets you send messages to your fellow players based on templates, sorted into categories like accusation, systems, and location. For example, you could select, "Please do your tasks" or "A killed B".

using quick chat in among us

The purpose of quick chat is twofold. First, as the name suggests, it lets you select commonly used phrases quickly, rather than typing them out every time. Second, it protects younger players. There are quick chat-only lobbies where the standard free chat (where you can say anything) is unavailable.

How to Turn Off Quick Chat in Among Us

If you're under 13, you can't use free chat in Among Us—only quick chat is available for sending and receiving. Your age is established when you create an Among Us account (as of mid-2022, an account is mandatory to play), during which you need to provide your date of birth.

Providing you're aged 13 or above, look for the Chat Type setting when you create or search for an Among Us lobby. Select this to toggle between Quick Chat Only and Free Chat.

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If you select Quick Chat Only, you can only send and receive quick chat messages; no-one in the lobby will have free chat.

If you select Free Chat, you can type normally and say whatever you want (and use quick chat, if needed.) That said, you can still apply filtering to protect against strong language—go to the game's settings screen to toggle Censor Chat.

Play Among Us However Suits You

Whether you want to speak your mind freely, or keep the chat safer and limited to set phrases, Among Us lets you toggle between the two with ease, no matter what platform you're playing on—as long as you're old enough.