Auto Capitalization in iOS 11

No. This is not about creating contacts. This is about just typing anywhere in iOS and having random words be auto-capitalized.

That is literally not the point. Why have a function if it doesn’t work? If you make a product that offers a service, and then provide that service horribly, people are going to be upset.

Thank you. Your outrage is appreciated. :)

I just fixed this issue on my phone, based on someone else's comment, but their solution wasn't the ideal answer.

My own name was being auto capitalized when I would type it (example: responding to an email) but apparrently my name was ALL CAPS in Contacts. I edited my own contact info to standard capitalization and ta-da! Problem solved. So look for your friend's name in the contacts and edit how it's capitalized. I don't think you need to move his name to the company field. Good luck!

I'm a little late to this party but I honestly don't understand the problem.

The default is initial caps, which is a logical default for the Name field. When you're entering names, you will see the shift key highlighted for the first character in a name field and for the first character after a space. All that is necessary is to tap the shift key to turn it off whenever you wish to over-ride the default.

I created a test contact. The first name is

John tennis

The second name is

baseball

Consequently, the full name is

John tennis baseball

Is that what you're unable to do?

This fixed the problem. Go to your contacts and search for the word that is being capitalized... ie: "home"... and either move it to the "company" field or replace with a different word.