Can I make the keyboard display lower case letters?

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Can I make the keyboard display lower case letters?

Sorry for possibly a totally n00bie question....I'm completely new to Apple products. I just bought my first Apple product yesterday, iPad Air (full size).

My question is in regard to the virtual keyboard. It displays the letters in upper case, so it makes it difficult to determine between upper and lower when I press the shift key because it doesn't look any different.

Is there a way to make the keyboard display lower case letters when in lower case mode and vica versa for upper case?

iPad Air Wi-Fi, iOS 7.0.6

Posted on Mar 2, 2014 7:37 PM

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Skydiver119

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Mar 2, 2014 7:38 PM in response to kingtermite

Sorry, no.

You can lock it in app caps by double tapping the shift button. ANd you just have to get used to knowing that you're defaulted to lower case unless you specify otherwise

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kingtermite Author

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Mar 2, 2014 7:42 PM in response to Skydiver119

I figured that was the case. 😟

Thanks.

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Skydiver119

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Mar 2, 2014 7:47 PM in response to kingtermite

It's really not that bad once you get used to it. Honestly the lack of an easy apostrophe bugged me more.

If you just can't get used to the on screen keyboard you may want to consider an external blue tooth keyboard. There are several keyboard/cases that turn your iPad into a near notebook

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bobseufert

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Mar 2, 2014 8:18 PM in response to Skydiver119

If you're still looking for the easy apostrophe hold the comma.

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jbandera

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Mar 30, 2015 11:03 AM in response to kingtermite

In my opinion, this is still one the silliest oversights in design by Apple. They can make the little switch button on flashlight icon in the control tray toggle between up and down, but they can't toggle the case of the letters to reflect the status of the Shift key? Seriously...without actually using your phone, can you tell me which icon represents Shift being enabled? Is it the black arrow with the white background or the white arrow with the grey background?

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bobseufert

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Mar 30, 2015 5:05 PM in response to jbandera

On the shift key a black arrow on a while background is upper case, white arrow on grey lower case. I believe the Swiftkey keyboard gives you upper and lower case letters on your keyboard.

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Apr 12, 2015 3:07 PM in response to kingtermite

There is an App that does it: it's called ShowCase, but it's not approved by Apple. I had it on my iPad till I updated to iOS 8.3 (which also killed my aviation GPS app, but that's a different problem).

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