Feels like we discussed this before either in this thread or another one. If it did work that way before that was the incorrect way since if one decides to enable caps lock the it should stay until one disables it and not have the phone determine when to do it on its own. Maybe some might have found it convenient in some way, but others who actually expected it to work correctly (as in stay on until they themselves turned it off) certainly found it to not be working right.
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Is it just me or has autocorrect gotten worse and the keyboard less responsive?
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"Correctly" on a desktop keyboard is not the same as for a touch screen phone. I have NEVER typed more than one word in all caps on my phone, that is considered shouting and offensive in forums, texts and emails. That is the problem.
Correctly is correctly. Just because you haven't done it doesn't mean other people haven't or don't expect it to work as it normally does across any keyboard essentially.
Yes we have!
I can never understand why people just can't understand that the "caps lock" on a desktop or iPhone keyboard does just what it says - locks the caps until unlocked. What can be simpler than that?!
Seems for some expecting different behavior is somehow simpler. Go figure. But the bigger thing is that they think everyone should want it that way too for some reason, basically just because they think it's more useful to them and therefore it clearly has to be that way for everyone else.Yes we have!
I can never understand why people just can't understand that the "caps lock" on a desktop or iPhone keyboard does just what it says - locks the caps until unlocked. What can be simpler than that?!
You basically just ignored what I wrote but ok. Correctly is not universal for the reason I stated. It should apply to how it is used the majority of the time which is to type one word or acronym, not entire sentences. I don't see how you can dispute that.
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Yes we have!
I can never understand why people just can't understand that the "caps lock" on a desktop or iPhone keyboard does just what it says - locks the caps until unlocked. What can be simpler than that?!
So others have complained about this? That should say something, as people are usually either too oblivious or apathetic to notice or vocalize things that aren't as efficient.
Again, correct is correct, and convenient is convenient. There's a difference between the two. While it might be more convenient for some it doesn't make it actually correct as far as established use of the key and expectation if most of how it would work. How does your complaint stack up against mine or that of someone else's that I'm annoyed that when I want to type some things in all caps the caps lock gets reset after each word? I turned it on and expect it to stay on and not turn off on its own when I don't expect or hope for it to.
So you're saying that most of the time when you use caps lock you type complete sentences in all caps??
It varies. On the occasions that I do use it, it's sometimes for multiple words, sometimes more than that, and sometimes just single words. But I'm in control how and when the caps lock gets enabled and disabled, as I expect to be and as I should be.
Using words that don't exist, such as "gotten", I am not surprised; I thought Americans were renowned for their grammatical laziness, and desired words to be shortened, not lengthened.
I thought I've seen it all, but now someone's complaining about caps lock not automatically turning off. It has the word "lock" in it for a reason, wow.
What are you talking about?
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Read my explanation above, very few people type full sentences in all caps. It's usually just one word.
What does that have to do with anything being discussed in this thread? I'm seriously confused.
BUT lF YOU WANT IT TO STAY LOCKED FOR A FULL SENTENCE, YOU HAVE THAT OPTION.
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And the definition of Caps Lock is very clear.
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/british/caps-lock-key
It's not about having the option it's about programming it to how it is most often used. Almost no one types full sentences in all caps, and those that do do so very infrequently.
Then don't use caps lock. Hold your finger on the shift key while you're typing, then remove it when you want to switch to lowercase again. Problem solved.
That doesn't solve the problem at all, typing w 2 hands, really??
Bottom line, it worked perfectly before. This company has really gone significantly downhill since Jobs left.
Someone has said this before, but it's always been this way. I just confirmed it on my 4th gen iPod touch running iOS 6. I started typing in caps lock, and when I hit space at the end of a word, it was still on caps lock. So you're really complaining about something that hasn't changed in 7 years.
I and others have stated the same thing that you just said. The OP is just a troll, just look at his posts.
I'm not a troll, learn the definition of a troll. God I'm sick of the word being applied to anyone who posts something you disagree with or don't like. Unfortunately I'm stuck w the iPhone and it has a ton of unnecessary flaws and they keep changing stuff and making it worse.
Nothing in the explanation comes even close to showing that very few people don't need caps for more than one word. Not sure if there's anything that could be shown to support that point, especially compared to how many people would expect or the caps lock to turn off all of a sudden on its own or if they would expect to be in control of it themselves.
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It was wrong before and they fixed it. Just because you happened to like how it was doesn't mean that it wasn't wrong and the change isn't the right one. So, FOR YOU (hey thankfully the caps lock stayed on for me to type those two words without it turning off in the middle) it's worse, but for the rest of is it's either better (or perhaps some don't really care even). Nothing related to Jobs or anything becoming worse, in fact, in this case, it got fixed and became more appropriate to correlate to what people would expect from any keyboard. But again this is just rehashing the same thing over and over as you keep on coming back and digging up the same kids of things again and again.
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LOL! Talk about hyperbole... I'm sure it'll make headlines on news sites around the web soon enough.
Caps lock works this way UNIVERSALLY. iOS shouldn't conform to what's convenient for you but to what is generally expected behaviour. Most, I'd reckon, would want caps lock to behave the same way it does on 100% of other devices out there.