More powerful auto capitalize feature (e.g. "i -> I" in English)

181 votes

Traditional keyboard applications automatically capitalize the letter I and various other single letters. Typewise does not, it would be really nice to have the option to have the keyboard do it for you rather than always swiping up in the letter.

Done Suggested by: Matthew (12 Dec, '19) • Upvoted: 11 Jan • Comments: 21

Comments: 21

03 Apr, '20
Tom
This is crucial.
1
13 May, '20
Pangolineer
Yes, this is mind-bogglingly broken. This and " 's" of certain words. Like "that's". What's the difference between me typing "that" and choose "that's" from the prediction bar, and me typing "thats" and expects typewise to autocorrect it since "thats" is incorrect. Well, the latter doesn't work like that.
1
27 May, '20
Janis Berneker Admin
"Auto capital "i" when its by itself and a space after" (suggested by KG on 2020-05-07), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
03 Jun, '20
Peoplez
Yes, please. This is crucial.
14 Jul, '20
Maria Diaz Admin
"Capitalize an uncapitalized word" (suggested by Michael on 2020-07-02). E.g. thursday to Thursday
11 Sep, '20
Denis
Yes yes pleaseeee this is a really big need of mine 💔
20 Oct, '20
Lars
For English language support it's crucial to auto-correct missing apostrophes. E.g. "Im" should become "I'm".
06 Nov, '20
Hans Grob
I have moved to Gboard, just before I used for years SwiftKey. Seems that in all type-helpers automatically set majuscules are ignored, especially in German. How much effort to write 'z.B.'!
13 Feb, '21
whim
if this implemented i would love it to be an OPTIONAL toggle, because one of my favorite things about this app is that it DOESN'T autocapitalize "i" and other proper nouns. i use capitalization for tone indication in my online typing & don't really care about Gramatically Correct capitalization. i use keyboard shortcuts to include missing apostrophes with minimal effort but having to individually un-capitalize a bunch of letters is a task i was thrilled to be leaving behind when i downloaded this keyboard.
03 Mar, '21
Elizabeth Y
Agreed. Also not having common contractions with pronouns being automatically corrected. I'm and I'll do appear as suggestions after the apostrophe is placed, but it would be better if it just autocorrecteed from im and ill to I'm (automatically) and I'll (based on context)
20 Apr, '21
Chad Woolley Merged
If I type "im" it corrects to "i'm", but doesn't capitalize the "I".

If I type "if i am" it doesn't capitalize the "I".

gboard does this correctly.
11 Jun, '21
Janis Berneker Admin
"Auto-capitalize "I"" (suggested by Chad Woolley on 2021-04-20), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
22 Jun, '21
Janis Berneker Admin
"Make standalone "i" capitalize" (suggested by Randy on 2021-06-18), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
12 Aug, '21
Willie
This has been a huge annoyance for me since day one.
02 Dec, '21
Tatterdemallion (Ennui Syzygy Hiraeth)
Omg i totally didn't think abut using text replacement to fix this for now
15 Dec, '21
Anne Admin
"Bessere Groß-Kleinschreibung" (suggested by Emil on 2021-10-10), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
22 Mar, '22
stefan
mind boggling that this doesn't work

i -> I is crucial

I even sometimes get an i autocorrected to a, k or r or some other letter!!! how can you autocorrect "i" in english to any other letter? if you can't autocapitalize it okay, thats bad, but then changing it to another letter is just beyond silly...

also upvote the thats/whats/im etc. autocorrects that miss the apostrophe...doesn't work at all. in fact, it seems the AI is learning the wrong spelling, so if I always type "dont" then the autocorrect at the beginning changes it correctly to "don't" but after a while it learns the WRONG spelling of "dont" and leaves it...ouch!
25 May, '22
Michael Drew Prior Merged
I like swipe--up to capitalize. However, letters frequently capitalize inadvertently. Auto--correct could offer to eliminate extraneous capitalization.
20 Jun, '22
Anne Admin
"Auto-correct misplaced capitalizations." (suggested by Michael Drew Prior on 2022-05-25), including upvotes (0) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
20 Jun, '22
Anne Admin
"When typing the letter i by itself, it should be automatically capitalized." (suggested by David Layte on 2022-05-06), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
29 Dec, '22
Anne Admin
"Automatically capitalize I's" (suggested by Nick T-S on 2022-10-25), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.