how do i stop Imessage from capitalizing all letters of a proper name?

This has been an interesting thread. I have had this problem for a long time. Most annoying has been when I type my name at end if text or email. Looked in Contacts and there are no Johns that are all caps. Tried to reset dictionary no luck. Then I remembered someone saying they had to wait a few minutes. Decided to reboot my phone (iPhone 6, latest iOS, AT&T provider) and low and behold no caps when I type JOHN...oh, wait a minute that all cap JOHN was an auto correct. Hope someone finds a solution. Very annoyed Apple user and I will repeat what someone said earlier. Thanks Apple! I know no one from Apple is listening but that does not prevent me from getting on my soap box and screaming sarcasm.

I have figured it out! It's actually coming from Gmail! Go into settings and contacts and disable your gmail imported contacts. They are all being imported in all caps. After I did that 99% of them went away, and the few that remained that still has all caps were ones I had entered a gmail address for. I changed all of those then put it to the rest. Went to type a text and it didn't auto correct it to all caps! Wooho! Such a relief!

AnnieX13 wrote:

I have figured it out! It's actually coming from Gmail! Go into settings and contacts and disable your gmail imported contacts. They are all being imported in all caps. After I did that 99% of them went away, and the few that remained that still has all caps were ones I had entered a gmail address for. I changed all of those then put it to the rest. Went to type a text and it didn't auto correct it to all caps! Wooho! Such a relief!

I'm glad you figured out what your problem was. However, it points up the fact that this probably isn't a single problem. I sync my contacts to Gmail and have never seen this behavior. Of course, none of my Gmail contacts are typed all in caps.

I am afraid not - I am not with GMail on my phone so your solution does not work. Bizarrely my other phone which is with Gmail does not have this problem.

None of the above solutions work for me - it is a most irritating problem, in fact I think Apple might be a synonym of irritating

Birduder 344 wrote:

I am afraid not - I am not with GMail on my phone so your solution does not work. Bizarrely my other phone which is with Gmail does not have this problem.

It was not my solution. In fact, I said Gmail didn't affect my phone. I believe you meant to reply to the person who posted just before me.

I did all of the keyboard and dictionary resets that did not work by themselve, but the problem is definitely tied to my email accounts. It doesn't necessarily have to be gmail... it is any email account. The way I fixed the problem was I went to Settings, Contacts, then at the top of that page clicked on Accounts, selected my email account, then turned off the green switches for calendars, contacts, and mail (said yes at the prompts warning me they would be deleted from my phone) and clicked delete account. I rebooted the phone, started typing a text message containing one of the problem names (JOE) and no more all caps. This process of course deleted my email account that I can just go add back in later if I want, but more importantly it indicated for me that at least in my case this issue was absolutely connected to my email. You might be able to just click off the green switch for contacts for your email account(s) instead of actually deleting the account(s) if you don't want to completely delete. For me, the problem email account was one I no longer wanted on my phone, so deleting it was my solution. Worth a try to see if your email contacts are contributing to your issue.

That is interesting. I have cured it but only by turning off the bit that suggests spelling. I can't help thinking that if I delete the account and then set it up again that the problem will just reappear. And I can't be bothered to see!

Glad some of you sorted it out, what a crappy thing though, Apple or whomever should sort it out

I looked into this a bit more because it seemed that place names were the issue. I typed in a few random places then, if it capitalised, looked it up in contacts. Sure enough I normally found the word in an email address or job title. So, simple solution, turn off email contacts. Now all I have are phone numbers and guess what? It STILL does not work!!!

Okay there are two issues going on in this thread. One is the all caps issue, and the other is when ios capitalizes common words that are also names in your contacts. I'm writing about the second issue.

A quick review of your contacts will show all kinds of common words that are also names, like Fine, White, Trainer, Day, Gray, Robin, Temple, Rose, Head. These are names AND they are words: fine, white, trainer, day, gray, robin, etc.

You can turn off Auto Caps under General --> Keyboard. That works! But if you do that then you have to capitalize the first word of every sentence after a period or a question mark.

Apple, if you are listening, the answer is simple: Under "Auto Caps" there should be an option: "For Auto Cap of words that are also names, don't capitalize." I would much rather have to capitalize the name of someone than constantly remove the capital letter from a common word. Hope this helps. Would love to hear from Apple, when they are going to fix this annoyance.

The names in my contacts list are not capitalized. Every time I type my own first name, it autocorrects to all caps. This is particularly annoying when I’m typing my email address since it’s awkward to place a cursor easily on an iPhone.

I solved the problem by going into Keyboards -> Text Replacement, and adding a new shortcut. The phrase is my first name “Joya” and the shortcut is all caps “JOYA.” This appears to have worked.

Check to make sure no one messed with your text shortcuts in Settings>General>Keyboard>Text Replacements.

If that's not the problem, correcting them a few times should fix it.

I've never seen this behavior before. Let me ask you this, do you have their names in your contacts with all capital letters? I know the device learns from things you receive, so it is almost as if it has seen this before. If you are using predictive text with messages, the far left entry of the three should be exactly what you type, and if you select it, it should learn after a while as Meg indicated.

You're welcome. The iPhone uses existing information on the device when you type in similar information, as it assumes this is what you may be looking for. Hope this helps you.