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Oh I didn't realize they changed it on 6. It wasn't like that on 5.01.

I can confirm that you're wrong... again. I just downgraded my iPod to iOS 5.1.1, and caps lock works exactly the same way. Can't believe I went through all that effort to prove an obvious point, lol.

Also, here's a video I found showing iOS 5 caps lock in action:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILMj8705XTA
 
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I can confirm that you're wrong... again. I just downgraded my iPod to iOS 5.1.1, and caps lock works exactly the same way. Can't believe I went through all that effort to prove an obvious point, lol.

Also, here's a video I found showing iOS 5 caps lock in action:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILMj8705XTA
So basically once again we keep in running around circles for no reason beyond someone just thinking random stuff.
 
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.
You keep ignoring my very basic point - I'm simply saying that very few people type full sentences in all caps, especially on a smart phone. The "proof" for that is abundant, think of how few times you see complete sentences or even multiple words in all caps.

I am well aware of how caps lock behaves on a desktop keyboard, that is irrelevant because it is much easier to hit the caps lock key with your pinky than it is to turn it off on a touch screen keyboard. It was much more fluid and effortless before.

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I can confirm that you're wrong... again. I just downgraded my iPod to iOS 5.1.1, and caps lock works exactly the same way. Can't believe I went through all that effort to prove an obvious point, lol.

Also, here's a video I found showing iOS 5 caps lock in action:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILMj8705XTA

Did you not read above? I said I upgraded to iOS 7 from 5.01, in which it did behave as I am describing.

I stand corrected that this was an iOS 7 issue, but my point regarding the efficiency of it still stands regardless of when it was implemented.
 
Did you not read above? I said I upgraded to iOS 7 from 5.01, in which it did behave as I am describing.

I stand corrected that this was an iOS 7 issue, but my point regarding the efficiency of it still stands regardless of when it was implemented.

Ok, let's go back a bit further, shall we? Here's a video of iPhone OS 3 demonstrating caps lock, which is 2 major iOS versions before 5.0.1. Notice at the end of the video, he presses space and it's still enabled.

http://youtu.be/1IXMAwzj478

Either you have a really bad memory, or you're blatantly trolling.

Edit: Here's an even better video showing it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVHjch-uUjE
 
Ok, let's go back a bit further, shall we? Here's a video of iPhone OS 3 demonstrating caps lock, which is 2 major iOS versions before 5.0.1. Notice at the end of the video, he presses space and it's still enabled.

http://youtu.be/1IXMAwzj478

Either you have a really bad memory, or you're blatantly trolling.

Or something was wrong with my phone, did you ever think about that? I swear to god it worked that way on my phone, I distinctly remember it every time I use it. It's still very possible that this was temporarily changed to the behavior I am describing at some point between iOS 3-5.11 and then changed back.

I'm honestly not trolling, but rest assured this revelation makes me feel A LOT better (you like that muti-word usage of caps lock?) knowing that this is how it's always been. I am now puzzled however as to why my phone behaved differently.....
 
Or something was wrong with my phone, did you ever think about that? I swear to god it worked that way on my phone, I distinctly remember it every time I use it.

I'm honestly not trolling, but rest assured this revelation makes me feel A LOT better (you like that muti-word usage of caps lock?) knowing that this is how it's always been. I am now puzzled however as to why my phone behaved differently.....

I think what you're thinking about is caps lock switching off at the end of a sentence, which it still does in iOS 7. Either way, it's always worked the same way.
 
Either way, you will find out, that this still won't be end of it.....

Have you noticed that ever since iOS 7, when you double tap the space bar quickly, it puts a period there whether you want it or not? Bring Steve back please! :(


Just trying to get any made up iOS 7 keyboard horror stories out of the way :rolleyes:;)
 
Have you noticed that ever since iOS 7, when you double tap the space bar quickly, it puts a period there whether you want it or not? Bring Steve back please! :(


Just trying to get any made up iOS 7 keyboard horror stories out of the way :rolleyes:;)

Are you sure it does that,,, Mine always puts a comma when I double tap,,,,,,,

Perhaps it's a new feature if iOS 7,,,,,,,,
 
You keep ignoring my very basic point - I'm simply saying that very few people type full sentences in all caps, especially on a smart phone. The "proof" for that is abundant, think of how few times you see complete sentences or even multiple words in all caps.

I am well aware of how caps lock behaves on a desktop keyboard, that is irrelevant because it is much easier to hit the caps lock key with your pinky than it is to turn it off on a touch screen keyboard. It was much more fluid and effortless before.

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Did you not read above? I said I upgraded to iOS 7 from 5.01, in which it did behave as I am describing.

I stand corrected that this was an iOS 7 issue, but my point regarding the efficiency of it still stands regardless of when it was implemented.
Unfortunately you seem to keep on ignoring an even simpler point that not everyone uses the phone like you and expects or wants things to work the same way. While perhaps not many people write full sentences in capital letters often, there can easily be plenty who write more than one word in capital letters at a time, perhaps not all the time or even often, but enough nonetheless. There's nothing you can point out that would prove otherwise. Saying it's common sense or something like that isn't prove in any way, as things of this nature--what people do and their own ways of doing things--are just not related to common sense in many ways. And, even if somehow more people don't write much in capital letters, it still can easily be said that they would find caps lock turning off on its own strange/confusing--they write they same way on a computer where caps lock wouldn't change on its own so it can easily be worse for them to have this inconsistency than it is to have some sort of benefit that they might not care about anyway. Again, it might be better for you, but it doesn't mean anything for anyone else, especially in a case like this when one behavior is actually more correct and appropriate than the other (despite the incorrect one being somewhat more convenient for you and possibly some others).

Having said all that, as has been shown, this wasn't the behavior before, which kind of closes it all down. Just because you incorrectly remember it or your phone was weird, only means that none of this really applies to others and there's nothing to complain about (and especially exaggerate).
 
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It used to put a colon, but now it does a period. That's so weird. Are you sure you're not running iOS 4?



No I am not on iOS 4,,,,, in fact I am on iOS 8 already,,,,,,,

I like this new style,,,,,,

Guess now all that is left for me is a 'rap' from the mods,,,,,,
 
I love autocorrect on English. It is fantastic!! However, the autocorrect on Korean is an absolute rubbish!!!!!
 
I think what you're thinking about is caps lock switching off at the end of a sentence, which it still does in iOS 7. Either way, it's always worked the same way.

That's a good possibility. Well sorry if I was wrong, not quite sure why I have it in my head that it behaved that way.

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Have you noticed that ever since iOS 7, when you double tap the space bar quickly, it puts a period there whether you want it or not? Bring Steve back please! :(


Just trying to get any made up iOS 7 keyboard horror stories out of the way :rolleyes:;)

Haha, I know you're joking but that can actually be turned off! I wish all features could be. I personally keep that turned off, how bout you?
 
Ungortunately you seem to keep on ignoring an even simpler point that not everyone uses the phone like you and expects or wants things to work the same way. While perhaps notanu people write full sentences in capital letters often, there can easily be plenty who write more than one word in capital letters at a time, perhaps not all the time or even often, but enough nonetheless. There's nothing you can point out that would prove otherwise. Saying it's common sense or something like that isn't prove in any way, as things of this nature--what people do and their own ways of doing things--are just not related to common sense in many ways. And, even if somehow more people don't write much in capital letters, it can't really be said that they would find caps lock turning off on its own strange/confusing--they write they same way on a computer where caps lock wouldn't change on its own so it can easily be worse for them to have this inconsistency than it is to have some sort of benefit that they might not care about anyway. Again, it might be better for you, but it doesn't mean anything for anyone else, especially in a case like this when one behavior is actually more correct and appropriate than the other (despite the incorrect one being somewhat more convenient for you and possibly some others).

Having said all that, as has been shown, this wasn't the behavior before, which kind of closes it all down. Just becuse you incorrectly remember it or your phone was word, only means that none of this really applies to others and there's nothing to complain (and certainly exaggerate).

Fair enough, my mistake. I wonder why I remember it a certain way.
 
That's a good possibility. Well sorry if I was wrong, not quite sure why I have it in my head that it behaved that way.

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Haha, I know you're joking but that can actually be turned off! I wish all features could be. I personally keep that turned off, how bout you?

I know, just giving you a hard time. Believe me, there are things I would like to see improved with iOS 7. But overall, I like the direction it's headed in more than iOS 6. There were some changes in iOS 6 that were plain ugly.
 
I know, just giving you a hard time. Believe me, there are things I would like to see improved with iOS 7. But overall, I like the direction it's headed in more than iOS 6. There were some changes in iOS 6 that were plain ugly.

Have you not noticed how much worse autocorrect is?? It's unbelievable, it's like night and day. Simple everyday words misspelled by only a letter don't get picked up. So annoying, makes no sense. Did they just completely abandon all of the years of brilliant programming that went into iOS 6 > autocorrect?
 
Have you not noticed how much worse autocorrect is?? It's unbelievable, it's like night and day. Simple everyday words misspelled by only a letter don't get picked up. So annoying, makes no sense. Did they just completely abandon all of the years of brilliant programming that went into iOS 6 > autocorrect?
9 pages in and the same question keeps on bumping the thread up--will we really discover anything new about it that hasn't been discussed over and over already? It's almost as if it's just a wordier version of a simple (yet unnecessary and discouraged) "bump" post.
 
9 pages in and the same question keeps on bumping the thread up--will we really discover anything new about it that hasn't been discussed over and over already? It's almost as if it's just a wordier version of a simple (yet unnecessary and discouraged) "bump" post.

No I was asking someone new to the thread, and yes someone has to know something more than I've learned as of yet. It's significantly worse than it was, there's absolutely no excuse for this on the leading smart phone in 2014.
 
Have you not noticed how much worse autocorrect is?? It's unbelievable, it's like night and day. Simple everyday words misspelled by only a letter don't get picked up. So annoying, makes no sense. Did they just completely abandon all of the years of brilliant programming that went into iOS 6 > autocorrect?

I didn't notice any difference when upgrading to 7.0, but I noticed some improvements with 7.1.1.

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No I was asking someone new to the thread, and yes someone has to know something more than I've learned as of yet. It's significantly worse than it was, there's absolutely no excuse for this on the leading smart phone in 2014.

I'm not new, I posted on page 5 in March. Wrong again :p
 
No I was asking someone new to the thread, and yes someone has to know something more than I've learned as of yet. It's significantly worse than it was, there's absolutely no excuse for this on the leading smart phone in 2014.
Seems like we all got that pretty much from early on in the thread, let alone from menu repetitions of it on pretty much all of the subsequent pages. Seems like some find it worse significantly, some a little bit, while some others don't see much difference in their practical use. That's pretty much what it comes down to page after page. Bringing up the thread to ask the same thing and once again confirm all of those same results doesn't really seem to do much of anything it seems beyond simply rehashing the same things over and over.
 
Seems like we all got that pretty much from early on in the thread, let alone from menu repetitions of it on pretty much all of the subsequent pages. Seems like some find it worse significantly, some a little bit, while some others don't see much difference in their practical use. That's pretty much what it comes down to page after page. Bringing up the thread to ask the same thing and once again confirm all of those same results doesn't really seem to do much of anything it seems beyond simply rehashing the same things over and over.

He should've just done a poll if he was going to ask rah individual person the same question.
 
He should've just done a poll if he was going to ask rah individual person the same question.
At the very least it would seem. Although coming back every few days or weeks to more or less just essentially bump the thread with something repetitive like "don't you think it sucks?" (which was already asked in the OP anyway) doesn't really help much either
 
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