iPad Pro occasionally won't type lowercase letters (the "character space" stays stuck as uppercase)

I write frequently on my iPad and this problem is driving me nuts. I hope it is fixed with a subequent iOS update.

I write on an iPad, not an iPad Pro. I use an external bluetooth keyboard. Up until 9.2 I never experienced this issue, but with 9.2 I experience it frequently when typing in Ulysses.

For example, I might type a word and hold down shift for slightly too long, resulting in "THree" for example, and when I backspace and re-type the "H," it stubbornly remains an uppercase letter until I backspace past that character location by one additional character (back far enough to delete the "T" in this example) and then I may type a lowercase character in that location.

As you mentioned, it does not happen when I type in a text field such as this one. But in apps like Ulysses or Messages I experience the issue consistently.

Have you learned whether Apple plans to address this issue?

Well, I have exactly the same problem and I'm on 9.3.1 with iPad Pro 9.7 Smart Keyboard. Is this still a known bug or am I missing a simple fix? Any help appreciated.

I am having the same problem and I can't log into my bank site because it won't let me "uncapitalize" the first letter in the username. I am on an iPad Pro 9.7, with an apple keyboard.

To replace a capitalized letter do this:

Backspace over it

Hit shift again

Type the lower case letter

The shift is actually locked in the capitalize position and you need to hit it again to unlock it. Backspacing twice will do the same thing and erase whatever was before the capital letter, but you obviously can't do this for the first letter in a box.

I had hoped Apple would correct this problem in one of the updates since this discussion began, but they have not. Is there any way for us to escalate this issue with Apple support? It's made the iPad an unusable writing environment for me.

I have used the technique you describe to work around the issue in the meantime, sallenmd, but it is not a solution. For those of us who write for a living, typing rapidly and using muscle memory to correct small errors is critical. This is a bug and I sincerely hope Apple corrects it if they want people to use iOS as a viable writing platform.

Somehow I think they believe that it's a feature rather than a bug. The capitalization status of a letter is preserved even after you delete the letter. They think that you want to replace it with another capital letter.

This feature has long been present in the soft keyboard. When they introduced the iPad Pro, they enhanced the functionality of external keyboards to some extent. I am hopeful this particular behavior was incorrectly inherited from the soft keyboard code and, once someone in development becomes aware of the issue, they will eventually correct it.

This feature makes sense with the soft keyboard, where it is more difficult to correct a capitalization mistake. With an external keyboard, it is far easier to re-capitalize a word if the word calls for it.

To disable the auto-capitalization and auto-correction when using external keyboard,

go to settings => general => keyboard => hardware keyboard and disable those 2 options.

To get it to work on Safari, after you change the Hardware Keyboard settings, you need to force-close Safari.

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Thanks! It works perfekt! 🙂