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

Thanks but that did not correct it on our phones.

Jack Little

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I have been having this problem for months now. I found a couple other places online where people have this problem. Thank you to ChrisJ4203 for your patient questions.

No, I don't use Verizon. I use Straight Talk, and the carrier shows up as "Sprint" in the top right of my phone. So I suppose that is evidence against it being specific to Verizon.

No, I don't have all caps in my contacts.

The problem is persistent.

If anyone else can shed light on this problem, please share.

THANK YOU! er, I mean, Thank you.

I've had my 6s since last fall and have been having this same issue from the get-go. Every time I type someone's name it auto-caps the whole name, not just the first letter. The names aren't saved that way in my contacts. In fact, it happens when I type my 8 year old's name, and he doesn't have a phone, and isn't in my contacts. I'm on AT&T and live in Washington. It is a very annoying issue. I was Googling a solution and came across this thread and thought I'd add my $0.02.

I didn't think it was my contacts but searched for "Tom" and it had 8 "Tom"s and 1 "TOM" (which I changed to "Tom") and it appears to have worked.

This has been happening to me for about six months and is doing my head in. I've tried everything I can find online and it won't change. Clearly an apple bug... I'll keep searching!

In summary, if you have a proper name in all-caps anywhere in any of your contact databases, IOS texting will try and make it all-caps.

I've had this problem as well. Here was my solution for the IOS texting app changing proper names to all-caps.

I figured it out after IOS consistently turned the name "Russell" to all-caps. Of course, Russell can typically be both a first name and a last name.

Between my work and personal contacts, the contact database on my phone has over 10,500 names.

On my personal contact list, I had three instances of "Russell". All were not all-caps.

But on my work contact list (from an Exchange Server), I had 27 instances of Russell. One, and only one, contact was all-caps "DAN RUSSELL".

After correcting the name on the Exchange Server to normal upper and lower case characters, I checked to ensure that my phone had the updated contact. Then I sent a text that included the name Russell. IOS no longer tried to make it "RUSSELL".

Thanks for the hints from everyone on this thread.

Ed in Orlando

i think EAJS is onto something. if you have a caps problem. try 1) checking your contacts for names with capital letters - and depending on how you sync you contacts, one person could have multiple address book entries t are linked. you need to check them all 2) Do an iOS search for the name ( to check if your phone has any other references to the name). 3) check that your phone's contact list is not sync'd to a corporate directory. I'm not 100% sure of all the ways to check this, but for me, it's Settings/Mail, Contacs, Calendars. see if any of the accounts there are set to sync your contacts. if yes, then try disabling the contact syncing (just to test whether it fixes the problem) if it does then the problem is in the server side address book. (for my corporate directory, all the entries are server side, so another test could be to turn on airplane mode to disable your phones connectivity and see is they problem persists). good luck!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2SkqaCO9c4

Get it? hahaha

the same thing is happening to me for just about every name i ype it autocorrects to capitalizing the names only. and the names in my contacts are not capitalized. dont know how to turn it off or stop it from happening.

yep this was the solution for me. do a quick search for the names and alter the name in edit mode to lower case and it will fix it. thanks man

This is exactly it. I have been wondering and cursing for a while and finally decided to search. I have certain email contacts that came through in all caps from another source, and any time I use one of those names, it auto-corrects to all caps. Now I know how to fix it. Thanks or should I say THANKS?

This also happens on my iPad. It's really bloody annoying and has gotten worse. It is NOT Related to my contact list and it's bad.

The recommendation worked for me, but not immediately. Took about two minutes, but no more ALL CAPS! Thanks!

Reset the dictionary in general>Reset>reset keyboard dictionary and the problem is solved

Yep, this happens to me too, and it is super annoying!! I know that my contacts are all caps, but that's how the 2,000+ work contacts were imported. No I am NOT going back and re-typing every one of these in mixed case - would rather move to android before that. Isn't there some way to just disable the name lookup function on iMessage? It is the absolute WORST part of the "smart" system?