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How to Turn Off Auto Caps on an iPhone

Stop your iPhone from capitalizing words for you

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What to Know

To disable auto caps, head to iPhone's Settings, then tap General > Keyboard > All Keyboards and toggle off Auto-capitalization.Auto-capitalization is enabled on your iPhone by default and will automatically correct the capitalization of words and letters.Turning off auto caps will not disable the iPhone’s autocorrect. This article shows you how to disable auto caps on iPhone to control when words are capitalized manually.

How Do I Turn Off Auto Caps

If you're tired of your iPhone capitalizing words for you, or if you're having issues with your phone caps-locking names, then you can easily turn off this feature from your iPhone keyboard settings. Follow the steps outlined below to turn off auto caps on your iPhone. Open the iPhone's settings by tapping the Settings icon on the home screen. Swipe down and tap General. Tap Keyboard. Look down the list until you see a section labeled All Keyboards. Toggle the switch to the right of Auto-Capitalization off to disable auto caps. If you want to turn auto caps back on, toggle the switch back to on. With auto caps turned off, you'll now have full control over when words or letters are capitalized. You can also follow the steps outlined above to disable auto caps on your iPad.

Why Does iPhone Autocorrect Names to All Caps

Many users have reported issues with their iPhones automatically correcting names to all caps. Apple hasn't released an official explanation for this issue, though it has plagued users across multiple versions of the iPhone’s iOS operating system. Apple recommends turning auto caps off to avoid this issue. However, some users have reported the issue resolved after they turned off auto-capitalization and then re-enabled it. Unfortunately, it's unclear if Apple will ever release an update to iOS, which completely resolves this issue.

Why Turn off Auto Caps

There are many reasons you might want to disable auto caps on your iPhone. The first, of course, is you don’t like the corrections your iPhone makes for you. If you’re someone who likes to type without using formal writing, then having auto caps will cause words that should be capitalized to be corrected throughout. Another reason is you want to make the writing from your phone less formal. Being too formal in a text can cause the reader to take the message the wrong way. The tone of a message can be hard to contextualize in text fully, and turning off auto caps gives you complete control of how proper your writing looks. Turning off auto caps will not disable the iPhone’s autocorrect. If you would also like to turn that off, you can always refer to our article on disabling autocorrect on the iPhone. FAQ How do I install new keyboards on my iPhone? If you have iOS 8 or higher, you can download keyboard apps from the App Store. Then, go to the Settings app to add your new iPhone keyboard.
How do I make the keyboard bigger on my iPhone? The only way to make the keyboard larger is to enable Display Zoom. Go to Settings > Display & Brightness > View > Zoomed > Set. Enabling Display Zoom increases the size of everything on the screen.
How do I move the keyboard on my iPhone? Open the keyboard, then tap and hold the Globe icon in the lower-left corner. Choose from the icons in the pop-up menu to change the positioning of the keyboard. How do I type accents on my iPhone keyboard? Tap and hold the character you want to give an accent, then choose from the options that pop up. If nothing appears, then there are no accents for that character.
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