My phone is an iPhone 5s.
I use Text Replacement (in Settings > General > Keyboard) for phrases like email addresses. If I create a shortcut for my email address for use in the text of an email, or in a Word document, Text Replacement always expands it with upper-case initials for the first word and any word after a dot., even if I turn Auto Capitalisation and spelling correction off. Can anyone suggest a way of getting round that?
iPhone 5s, iOS 9.3.1
Problem solved! A curious solution, one that I first thought might be regarded as a bug, but now think might be an asset. Thank you, all, though,for suggestions.
This is the solution:
If the phrase has been saved with a capital first letter or capital letter after a dot, it will be expanded with a capital first letter in each place, regardless of whether one's saved shortcut has itself a capital first letter or no, and regardless of whether one types the shortcut with a capital or a lower-case first letter when using the Text Replacement in a document.
If the phrase has been saved with a lower-case first letter or lower-case letter after a dot, it will be expanded with a capital first letter in each place, regardless of whether one's saved shortcut has itself a capital first letter or not, if one types the shortcut with a capital letter when using the Text Replacement in a document.
If the phrase has been saved with a lower-case first letter or lower-case letter after a dot, it will be expanded with a lower-case first letter in each place, regardless of whether one's saved shortcut has itself a capital first letter or no, if one types the shortcut with a lower-case letter when using the Text Replacement in a document.
In other words, a capital first letter in the phrase will be expanded with a capital letter, regardless of how the shortcut is saved and regardless of how the shortcut is typed. A lower-case first letter in the phrase will be expanded according to whether the first letter of the shortcut is typed big or small when using the Text Replacement in a document, regardless of how the first letter of the shortcut was saved.
If the phrase (like an email address) has been saved with lower-case initial letters, it is how the shortcut is typed that determines the expansion, not the way the shortcut was saved.
These results were obtained with Auto Capitalization and Spelling Correction on. I have not tried any of this again with A.C. and/or S.C. off.
Dear RockstrKB, it is kind of you to reply so quickly to my question. So quickly, indeed, that you must have missed this phrase in my question: 'even if I turn Auto Capitalisation and spelling correction off'.
As for your second suggestion, I would hardly have expected Text Replacement to turn any upper-case letters I had typed into it into lower-case ones! My question was about Text Replacement turning lower-case letters into upper-case ones.
I hesitate to try the Reset idea; it would mean recreating a quite large number of phrases and shortcuts. Maybe I might try it when I have lots of spare time, which is certainly not the case just now. As for turning Auto Capitalization off, I (as I said earlier) tried that, unsuccessfully. So the problem remains.
Michael, these are long shots which I have not tried myself.
Is there a way of creating a hyperlink in Shortcuts? If your email address is in hyperlink format, it is possible that auto cap will not occur.
Secondly, after turning Auto Cap and Spelling Correction off, have you tried a forced restart? This would not delete any data of course.
Might be worth a try to turn Auto Cap and Spelling On, then back to Off, double clicking the Home button and swiping up Settings, and then a forced restart. Little to lose but a couple of minutes.
Just some thoughts, that's all I can think of. You may have run into some of the limitations of iOS, sorry to say. Good luck.
I don't see how this is a solution. It is a description of the problem. In most cases when tapping an email input field the keyboard will start with the shift active, so unless you unshift you will type the shortcut with a capital first letter. As a result the email will expand with capitalization, which in many cases will not be recognized as the correct email. Still looking for a way to make this not happen.
Go to > Settings > General > Keyboards > Toggle OFF Auto-Capitalization
And also Add your Text Replacement without adding a Upper Case Letter in Front
After I turn OFF Auto Capitalization I didn't get any Upper case Letters.
Try Reset Keyboard & Dictionary in Settings
Glad that it is fixed.... thanks for the feedback.
Unwanted capitals in iPhone
