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How to start a sentence WITHOUT caps?

It is very unlikely that it's true, but since I can't find anything about it on the web and can't find it out myself I have to ask:

With the Smart Keyboard connected to my Pad Pro it seems impossible to start a sentence without a cap! I tried everything, but in Mail or Pages there will allways be a cap at the start of the line. I have to disconnect the Smart Keyboard in order to type the lower case letter before I can continue with the keyboard!

As I said, it seems so absurd that it cannot be true! A keyboard that expensive! What am I doing wrong?

iPad, iOS 9.2.1, iPad Pro with Smart Keyboard

Posted on Feb 1, 2016 12:58 AM

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TBrown313

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Posted on Feb 1, 2016 10:41 AM

There are lots of problems with capitalization with iOS, some of which are different with the smart keyboard.

To do what you want, you need to go to settings/general/keyboard and turn off auto-capitalization. Then you can start a sentence without a capital. However, you will no longer get the autocorrected capitalization at the beginning of a sentence at any time.

Even with auto-capitalization turn off, if you start a word with a capital, iOS will tend to want to leave that letter as a capital. For example, if you type:

"and How I think"

and try to correct "How" to "now" by deleting just the "H", iOS will probably auto-capitalize the new letter "n" as "N". To get around this, you must delete more than one character--for example, delete both of "Ho", replace with "no" and it should work properly.

There are lots of problems like this in iOS and some are unique to the Smart Keyboard.

Terry

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Nov 5, 2016 10:04 AM in response to thunderzzz

Because I decide what and how I want to write it!

Have you ever heard of poetry?

slyfoxa

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19 points

Dec 6, 2016 8:35 AM in response to Cyraus

Found the solution! Settings - General - Hardware Keyboard - disable Auto Capitalization

Dec 25, 2016 9:49 PM in response to shameerpt

Brilliant - you made my day re hardware keyboard. Thanks!

bebor22

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4 points

Jan 28, 2017 2:37 AM in response to shameerpt

This is the solution. Simple.

brucedm3

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4 points

Jul 6, 2017 10:55 AM in response to thunderzzz

There's always gotta be "that guy".

ïunder

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4 points

Jul 8, 2017 6:49 AM in response to shameerpt

Thank you very much!

KimK2

Level 1

8 points

Jul 17, 2017 1:31 PM in response to aryht

Thank you SO much. This works perfectly. I had tried shift + caps lock; so I was close but that had not worked.

Again, thank you.

Aug 4, 2017 7:22 AM in response to shameerpt

YAY!!! Thank you! I've been annoyed by this for over a year!

whm

Level 1

12 points

Aug 7, 2017 11:03 AM in response to shameerpt

Very expensive solution. I am not sure that I want to give up auto-capitalization in the general case for the few times I do not want it.

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