Mail app spell checker is disabling send button on iMac after macOS Sequoia update

Hey @all -- quick workaround for this that is infinitely less annoying and let's you KEEP the spell checker on:

Just go into the message after closing the spell check window, and just hit the spacebar, or other keystrokes a few times and it will automatically just send the message!

Weird, but this has been like this for years -- often to my annoyance when I would try to edit a message mid-spell-check, and it would just send after a few keystrokes.

Now that we have this bug, it's actually quite a useful workaround -- but yes, ultimately, apple needs to fix the greyed out "send" icon so we can send whenever we want -- whether before, during or after a spell check, or if we suspend it altogether.

Same here.

In all the previous versions, automatic spell check before sending could be interrupted by simply pressing "esc".

This is no longer the case - the full spellcheck needs to be completed, no interruption apparently possible.

No solution for the "Unnecessary checking"

Once it started checking the quoted text, would just hit the "Command Shift D" and off the email would go.

That is before 15.4 was installed.

To solve the second issue, Go to Mail Settings > Composing > Check Spelling.

Change from ‘when you click send’.

To ‘never’ or ‘as you type’.

Solves the issue but needs to be fixed by Apple.

Hi, group. I just got a replacement to my Macbook Pro. This Macbook Air Sequoia 15.5 has the spellcheck problem described here. The solution "close the spellcheck window" isn't available to me. That button is grayed out. My workaround is to close the message, then go into Drafts and open/send it. Definitely a pain! I look forward to watching this discussion for more solutions. Thank you!

I use spell check on both my 2016(Monterey) and 2024(Sequoia) Mail and only noted the send problem with Spell Check on both since May or so. I initially left messages in Drafts and then sent via Outlook. I don't understand why this bug has persisted this long, and the workaround proposed here is still a nuisance. What gives?

On behalf of a client of mine, who is running macOS 15.5.... he has been getting the greyed out Send icon and the message never sends and no spelling/grammar dialogue window pops up because he has no spelling errors.

I have been able to replicate this on my own 15.5 MBA. I therefore believe this merits a bug report to Apple... which I hope to do.

There is a better workaround that allows you to keep your setting to "Check Spelling: Before I hit send," as detailed by "Aesthesia' in this thread (May 9).