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How do I enable caps lock on my Apple iPad?

Surely there must be a way to have caps lock work on my iPad? It's crazy, every time I type in an acronym or any sort of capitalized content, I have to tap the shift key before each and every letter. Help!


Dave's Answer:

This is your Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy moment: don't panic.

There is indeed a way to enable shift lock or caps lock on your iPad, and it's the same whether it's a 3G or a wifi unit.

In fact, it turns out that it's exactly the same way that you enable shift lock on your Apple iPhone, but if you have one of those, I bet it's been so long that you've forgotten you needed to enable it in the first place! That's okay, that's why I'm here...

The key place to go is Settings:

ipad caps lock (shift lock) settings 0

Once you're there, look on the right pane for "Keyboard":

ipad caps lock (shift lock) settings 1

Yeah, now you know where to look, you're going to be a bit embarrassed, aren't you? :-) It's okay, there are no dumb questions here at Ask Dave Taylor!

On the Keyboard settings are the following options:

ipad caps lock (shift lock) settings 2

I leave it as an exercise for the reader to figure out which one enables cap lock!

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Believe it or not, I don't have an iPhone, iTouch, iPad, or iAntyhingElse. I have a cell phone that, you know, makes phone calls. :-)

But, I do have to wonder why the apparent default is to have CapsLock disabled. Any logic behind that. Is screen space so critical that putting a CapsLock key makes it take too much room?

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