Sometimes you just need to emphasize something. One of the best ways to do so when you’re texting is to make the words you really need to get across in all capitals. Or maybe you just want to shout at someone, and an ALL CAPS sentence will certainly get that across for you.
Before now, I’ve always just deleted the word I was trying to emphasize and re-typed it after double-tapping the Shift key in iOS (for Caps Lock). Now, however, it looks like you can change the case of the word after you’ve typed it without deleting anything.
Here’s how.
When you’re typing on your iPhone, in Messages, Notes or even Pages, you’ll need to highlight the word you want to change case. You can double tap the target word, or tap and hold in the word itself and then tap Select.
Once highlighted, you’ll double-tap on the Shift key, effectively making it a Caps Lock key. Make sure the QuickType bar is visible, and you’ll see the word you highlighted in dramatic ALL CAPS style. Tap on it in the QuickType bar and it will replace your boring old lowercase word.
It only seems to work with single words, and they’ll need to be in the iOS dictionary for the delightful madness of calling someone out with all capital letters. Have at it!
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Rob LeFebvre is an Anchorage, Alaska-based writer and editor who has contributed to various tech, gaming and iOS sites, including 148Apps, Creative Screenwriting, Shelf-Awareness, VentureBeat, and Paste Magazine. Feel free to find Rob on Twitter @roblef, and send him a cookie once in a while; he’ll really appreciate it.
12 responses to “Hidden iOS 8 trick lets you change words to ALL CAPS with a tap”
There is an easier trick. At the end of the word, if we click on the shift, the AutoCorrector suggests the first letter to uppercase. If you click twice, he suggests all the word in capital letters,
You can say it is more easy in the other way. But when you are writing, sometimes on the middle of the writing you forgot that word must be on cappital letters. You continue writing the word and on final of the word double shift and the autocorrector may the rest.
Great!
Click twice on what? With Shift, it does not work.
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Also works in reverse to turn all caps into lower case.
Ah, this interests me more.
But this does not work. :-(
The bug also occurs in this reverse way. Here this is more annoying. Selecting the WORD and clicking the suggestion erase the word from my text.
I have iOS 8.2 in french, with auto-correct off and prediction on.
Yeah! It’s Easy Trick ios 8
This does not work. I do get the all-caps word suggested, but when I click it the word is erased from my text. It is a punishment to teach us to not SHOUT!
What is this presentation? Rob Lefebvre is an Anchorage??
This does not work.
I do get the CAPITAL word suggested. But, when I click it, the selected word in my text gets erased! Thank you iOS 8.
This is a punishment to teach us to not SHOUT! ;-)
But the bug also occurs in the other way. Here this is more annoying.
I have iOS 8.2 in french, with auto-correct off and prediction on.