How To Get Rid Of That Gross Lowercase Keyboard On Your iPhone In iOS 9

How To Get Rid Of That Gross Lowercase Keyboard On Your iPhone In iOS 9

When I saw that all the letters on all the tiny buttons on the new iOS 9 keyboard were set to lowercase by default, my eyes almost fell out of their sockets and were like this close to smear sliding down my iPhone’s screen and splatting on the ground. That lowercase keyboard just looks wrong.

The change was made to better differentiate when the caps lock/shift button is on, which, let me be entirely clear here, makes a lot of sense. A lowercase keyboard for lowercase letters and an all caps keyboard for when capitalised letters is switched on (that’s how it’s been working on Android keyboards for years) is pretty much the least confusing way to visualise it. But logical sense can only take you so far when your eyeballs are waging war on your body. I can’t help that my eyes vomit every time they see the crummy lowercase keyboard. I can’t help that they’re screaming at me on how the lowercase keyboard looks like I accidentally downloaded some scamming third party keyboard app that promised me more emojis. I can’t help it! And maybe you’re like me.

So let’s bring it back to what it was before iOS 9: a normal keyboard that displays its letters in all caps (even though it’s typing in lowercase). How?

Just go to Settings > General > Accessibility > Keyboard and switch off ‘Show Lowercase Keys’.

Your eyeballs will thank you.

Your brain, in trying to determine whether you hit the shift button to capitalise a letter on the keyboard, may not.


The Cheapest NBN 50 Plans

It’s the most popular NBN speed in Australia for a reason. Here are the cheapest plans available.

At Gizmodo, we independently select and write about stuff we love and think you'll like too. We have affiliate and advertising partnerships, which means we may collect a share of sales or other compensation from the links on this page. BTW – prices are accurate and items in stock at the time of posting.