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Enable/Disable Automatic Capitalization on iPhone & iPad

Mitch BartlettDecember 19, 2018 Comments (9)

Enable or disable the automatic capitalization feature on the Apple iPhone or iPad using these steps.

  1. Select “Settings” from the Home screen.
  2. Select “General“.
    iOS7 General option
  3. Select “Keyboard“.
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  4. If you have an iPad and use a hardware keyboard, select “Hardware Keyboard“.
  5. Turn Auto-Capitalization to on (green) or off (white).
    iOS Auto Capitalization setting

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.

Categories: iPhone

Author Mitch Bartlett

My name is Mitch Bartlett. I've been working in technology for over 20 years in a wide range of tech jobs from Tech Support to Software Testing. I started this site as a technical guide for myself and it has grown into what I hope is a useful reference for all.

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Comments

  1. Harry Childers says:
    April 27, 2021 at 5:48 am

    Microsoft Word for iPad still auto-capitalizes the first character.

  2. Barbara says:
    May 3, 2020 at 10:31 am

    Linda-
    I had this problem also.
    Check your contacts list. Whichever way the names are entered is how they will show up when you start to type it, or a similar name.
    The only way to correct it is to edit your contacts list.

  3. Linda says:
    April 22, 2020 at 8:25 am

    NO! I have tried this and if you turn off auto capitalization, the first letter of a sentence is not capitalized! I just don’t want it to put names in ALL CAPS, unless I choose that!

  4. DeLayne Bond~Jensen says:
    January 9, 2020 at 5:55 pm

    OK it’s on green, but how do I get every letter to stay in cap Mode when I’m typing?

  5. Mac says:
    November 21, 2019 at 12:31 pm

    Out of all the crap i have found on the internet THIS was the ONLY place that helped me fix this problem
    Thanks!!!

  6. Claudette Green says:
    November 4, 2019 at 9:21 am

    Thanks. The tapping to add to the dictionary worked for me.

  7. Peggy Heller says:
    May 6, 2019 at 3:16 pm

    Thank you. This is exactly what I needed to know.

  8. armando says:
    April 10, 2019 at 8:34 pm

    HAA — never mind…I didn’t realize I was turning off the auto-caps option in the wrong place…forgot to select “hardware keyboard” first!

  9. Armando says:
    April 10, 2019 at 8:32 pm

    This didn’t work for my iPad using the apple keyboard./cover…I even re-booted and re-checked to ensure the auto-cap option was still turned off….afterwords I turned off autocorrect too just for good measure. The mail app still puts an initial cap at the beginning of a new line….any ideas (see my initials below…which I want to be ALL LOWER CAPS, but cant unless I use the shift key)!

    Ag

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