Enable or disable the automatic capitalization feature on the Apple iPhone or iPad using these steps.
- Select “Settings” from the Home screen.
- Select “General“.
- Select “Keyboard“.
- Turn Auto-Capitalization to on (green) or off (white).
FAQ
When I type certain names and words automatically appear in ALL caps. How can I turn that off?
There is no option for that. However, you can spell the word as you like with the proper case, then tap it to add it to the dictionary. Visit our post about adding words to the iOS dictionary for more information.
Jean says
Turning off auto capitalization did not work. It is frustrating for putting in a url. It capitalizes the first H. I turned it off but it still capitalized it :(
Susan A Holley says
I don’t have an issue with cap the first letter but why the entire name? Every time!!!!
OEKJohnston says
my caps are suck in uppercase on display but once typed seems to be lowercase! how do i change the appearance????
Susan Graf-Cote says
I am livid. It would be great to have auto correct but auto correct can’t spell. It takes the word and and changes it to abd
I’m so angry with the capital letters and so embarrassed when I’ve patiently fixed every Iphone spelling error in an email, and then when I hit send, bam it decides to change its mind and make me look like a mental retard to other professionals.
Just writing this has taken too long fixing spelling. My next phone will not be an IPhone.
Fed up.
Thanks for all your help,
Susan
Glen says
Brian. Do you know if there will be a fix for this. It is most frustrating, especially for email addresses. Older versions of OS allow this to be turned off, but it seems this option has been removed. Hopefully it will be put back.
Brian J Graham says
iOS 9.3.2 still insists on capitalising the first charcter in the sentence. This is so frustrating, using the iPhone iPad for reasearch I’m continually playing tricks just to force the first to lowercase. Disabling this in “settings” has no effect, apart from certain conditions which are claimed to disable this festure it continues regardless.