What is the logic of autocapitalizationType and the corresponding global setting?

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Created May ’22

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In the lastest iOS 15 if found the following to be the case regarding the combination of the global autocapitalization setting in the iOS Settings app and the autocapitalizationType property:

| Global setting | autocapitalizationType  | Result (does it capitalize? |
|----------------|-------------------------|-----------------------------|
| on             | Sentences               | yes                         |
| on             | not set                 | no                          |
| off            | Sentences               | no                          |
| off            | not set                 | no                          |

What is the logic behind this?

On a side note, I also believe that in the second row of the above table, we had a 'yes' in earlier versions of iOS.

Answered by Claude31 in 712095022

Logic is that it is a && of the 2 conditions. To turn on, you need to authorize globally in settings which then let you select autocapitalizationType.

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Claude31 OP

May ’22

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Logic is that it is a && of the 2 conditions. To turn on, you need to authorize globally in settings which then let you select autocapitalizationType.

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Claude31 OP

May ’22

Where did you get the table from your original post ?

You could subclass UITextField and set autocapitalization property as you need.

But that is not really simpler than setting directly the property for each field…

Would that fit your need ?

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l00 OP

May ’22

Ok, I got it. Thanks guys!

I somehow was under the impression that globally turned on auto-capitalization was a feature that should be working by default on any text entry field.

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