Improve Suggestion Mode toggle display for articles with no suggestions available
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	Sdkb
	Apr 10 2026, 3:08 PM

Description

Story

As someone who is A) familiar with Suggestion Mode and B) opening an article in VisualEditor where no suggestions are currently available, I want the Suggestion Mode toggle (T415589) to clearly communicate that there are no suggestions available within this article, so that I do not become confused when interacting the Suggestion Mode toggle and seeing no change in the interface.
As someone who is A) not familiar with Suggestion Mode and B) opening an article in VisualEditor where no suggestions are currently available, I want to know what the Suggestion Mode toggle (T415589) is meant to do were suggestions available, so that I do not become confused when interacting the Suggestion Mode toggle and seeing no change in the interface.

Background

For articles that do not have any Suggestions available, there is a unique risk of the toggle creating confusion for editors, because turning it on/off would not appear to do anything.

We need to inform when:

No suggestions are available
New suggestions appear while editing

This task captures the work around deciding on and implementing improvements to make the function of Suggestion Mode clearer in this circumstance.

Possible solutions

NOTE: I would suggest no disabling the ToggleButton when there are no suggestions, and just inform the number of suggestions (0) in its badge. Then, if new suggestions come up, the badge's number will change, and the contextual Toast will inform of this change as well.

~~Op.1: Not displaying the toggle at all for such articles~~
~~Op.2: Hiding it away somewhere less prominent~~
Op.3: Display a contextual Toast (T417827) informing users that no/new suggestions are available

The contextual Toasts could solve either: