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xaviertee Author

Level 1

22 points

Auto Capitalization in iOS 11

Ever since I upgraded to iOS 11, a lot of non name words that are saved as Contacts are auto capitalised. For e.g. I save a contact called 'John Tennis', simply because he is my tennis buddy. Whenever I happen to type 'tennis' in my text, it gets capitalised to 'Tennis', which is very frustrating. This is just one of the many examples such as:

- AIA Call Centre (Both 'call' and 'centre' get capitalised in my texts)

- Cindy Cleaner ('Cleaner' gets capitalised)

- and many many more.

Is there a way I can stop this without disabling 'Auto Capitalisation' in my settings? It never happened in earlier version of iOS.

iPhone 7, iOS 11.0.1

Posted on Oct 4, 2017 3:21 AM

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NiallGi

Level 1

9 points

Posted on Nov 12, 2017 2:46 AM

My phone was capitalising “Just Home”. I have a contact called “Home Improvements” (a building company) with Hone as first name and Improvements as last name. So iOS was capitalising what it thought I had recorded as a proper name (or given name).

Solution: I set the Company name to Home Improvements and left first and last name blank. Auto-capitalisation of “Home” has now stopped!!

So if you move “Tennis” to be the company name of your John Tennis contact, iOS will stop capitalising “Tennis”.

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Nov 8, 2017 4:48 PM in response to xaviertee

Same here. For me, the words that get capitalized are common words like "Our" and "Still" and "Cool."

Dec 5, 2017 5:15 PM in response to NiallGi

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.

Philly_Phan

Level 7

20,725 points

Jan 14, 2018 1:22 PM in response to itsmemissb

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Jan 23, 2018 6:13 AM in response to Philly_Phan

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

Jan 23, 2018 8:30 AM in response to Philly_Phan

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.

Jan 23, 2018 8:32 AM in response to Sweetmichigan

Thank you. Your outrage is appreciated. :)

Auto Capitalization in iOS 11