How to Access the Caps Lock Key on an iPhone

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Last Updated: June 3, 2021 Tested

This wikiHow teaches you how to enable and use the Caps Lock key on your iPhone so that you can type in all capital letters.

Part 1

Part 1 of 2:
Enabling Caps Lock

1
Open your iPhone’s Settings. This is a gray cog icon on your home screen that may be in a folder labeled “Utilities.”
2
Tap General.

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3
Scroll down and tap Keyboard. It’s in the sixth set of options.
4
Slide the “Enable Caps Lock” button to the “On” position. It will turn green. This will allow you to use Caps lock on your keyboard to type in all capital letters.
- It may already be in the “On” position, and you won’t need to do anything.
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Part 2

Part 2 of 2:
Using the Caps Lock Key

1
Open your iPhone’s keyboard. This will happen automatically when you tap a text field you can type in such as a search bar, the address bar for Safari, a note in your Notes app, or the bar at the bottom of a conversation in Messages.
2
Double-tap the arrow in the lower-left of your keyboard. A line will appear under the arrow if you have done this correctly, and Caps Lock will be turned on.
- To perform a double-tap, you need to tap twice quickly. If you wait too long between taps, it will not work.
- In earlier iOS versions, the arrow will be white with a blue background when Caps Lock is on.
- Tapping once on the arrow is similar to pressing ⇧ Shift on a computer keyboard, and will allow you to type one capital letter.
3
Begin typing. You will be able to type capital letters until you tap the arrow again.
- When you leave the keyboard that displays the alphabet, such as when you tap 123 or access your emoji keyboard, it will also turn Caps Lock off.
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Community Q&A

Question

What is predictive text?

Community Answer

Predictive Text, known more simply as auto-correct is when you may spell a word incorrectly, it will automatically change it to the most similar word to the misspelled word. Usually above your iPhone keyboard, it tells you the top three suggested texts that are based on the current text you have typed and based on most of your main text message topics.
Question

How can I type a period without switching screens on an iPhone 7 keyboard?

Community Answer

After a sentence, tap the keyboard twice instead of once; a period should appear at the end of your last sentence.
Question

How do I type all caps on an iPhone?

Community Answer

Tap the up arrow button twice; once you do that, the up button arrow (also known as the shift button) will have a line underneath the arrow. Then you can type fully in caps until you have some end-of-sentence punctuation mark.
Question

How do you enable predictive text on iPhone 6?

Community Answer

Go to Settings > General > Keyboard and slide the button next to "Predictive" to the "on" position.
Question

How to type "*" on an iPhone?

Community Answer

Go in the "numbers" section in your keyboard, then go to the "symbols" section on your left and you will find the "*" symbol.
Question

Can you make the Caps Lock a permanent function?

Community Answer

Caps Lock will stay on on until you leave the keyboard containing the shift key. You will have to turn it on again each time you begin typing.

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Updated: June 3, 2021

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Open your keyboard in one of your iPhone's apps, then double-tap the upward arrow in the lower-left corner.

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