How to start a sentence WITHOUT caps?

On the external keyboard hit the shift key once before you start typing a new sentence. Just like you would do on the on-screen keyboard.

Thunderzzz,

It is not that the OP wants to break well founded grammar rules. Let us say you want to start a sentence with iPad. However, typing iPad types IPad, another example is typing a password, many times rather than the first letter being in lower case it is typed as a capital letter. Thus one must type the first letter twice, as in Aa, then delete the capital letter.

As you can now see, it is not the desire for breaking sound grammar rules, it is for the convenience of using lower case letters when needed. Hope my explanation helps you.

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

Settings > General > Keyboard > All Keyboards: Auto-Capitalization OFF

Does this work with the Smart Keyboard? Personally, I do not know.

This is not a solution. I want auto-cap much of the time. But when I delete the offending character multiple times iOS should get a clue. If I deliberately press the lower caps key before I type, iOS should get the idea. Making it absolutely impossible, without disabling the feature alltogether, to type an initial lower case letter is insane (my first iPhone 7; very disappointed with thoughtless interface issues like this).

To let apple know how you feel about this, go to

http://www.apple.com/feedback

Why would you like to break grammar rules and start sentences with small letter?

thunderzzz wrote:

Why would you like to break grammar rules and start sentences with small letter?

If you want to type the words iCloud, iOS, iPhone, iPad, iPod or the word iTunes at the beginning of a sentence, auto caps can be quite annoying.

This is also often a problem for me on sites where the email address or username field is auto-capitalizing. I also ran across a site where to cancel you had to type "cancel my subscription" as it was shown (in all lowercase) before the continue button would appear. But the first letter auto-capitalized and I had to disconnect the keyboard to enter it correctly.

I have the same issue. I'm on an iPad Pro 9.7 w/smart keyboard. The least-aggravating workaround (though still aggravating to an extent) it to type the first letter of the sentence twice -- the first will be capitalized and the second will not. I then backspace and delete the capitalized one. E.g. If I want "iPad" at the beginning of a sentence I type "IiPad" then delete the first 'I', leaving "iPad". I then forward-space to continue typing. I wish hitting the shift key would give you the opposite of whatever is the current mode. In other words if you're at the beginning of a sentence and iOS wants to give you a capital, shift would give you lowercase....

Cludgy solution but it's the only one that works for me. Thanks!

I am also facing the same problem. And I am following the same method of typing two times the first letter and delete the cap one. please keep on posting any one who know how to fix it. or when apple fix this problem.

this is very annoying when typing userid in any website.

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

Have you ever heard of poetry?

Apple developers sometimes fail to think right. When I remove a capital letter, why should I want the system to remember this? Just makes no sence to me and I ask the apple developers to change this as fast as possible.