First letter in UiTextField lowercase

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How do you make it so that when you start typing on the keyboard after youve clicked on a UITextfield the first letter isn't a capital automatically?

The first two answers to [this question](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2474824/iphone-issue-disabling-auto-cap-autocorrect-on-a-uitextfield) seem to answer this: it's not just an auto-capitalization, but also an auto-correction issue. Turn off auto-correct & that first letter of the text field won't be auto-capped for you. — ConfusionTowers, Oct 25 '17 at 21:08

score 177 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 17 '20 at 18:13

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In Objective-C:

textField.autocapitalizationType = UITextAutocapitalizationTypeNone;

In Swift:

textField.autocapitalizationType = .none

edited Aug 17 '20 at 18:13

ricardopereira

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answered Apr 06 '11 at 07:38

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That doesn’t seem to do it for the very first letter; it’s as if it is starting a sentence. – David Dunham Jul 20 '17 at 19:14
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@DavidDunham It's auto-correct that's doing that to you. Turn THAT off, and your first letter in the text field will remain lowercase. The first two answers [here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2474824/iphone-issue-disabling-auto-cap-autocorrect-on-a-uitextfield) show what you need. – ConfusionTowers Oct 25 '17 at 21:10

score 14 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 06 '11 at 07:38

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You can turn off auto-capitalization with the .autocapitalizationType property in the UITextInputTraits protocol.

textfield.autocapitalizationType = UITextAutocapitalizationTypeNone;

answered Apr 06 '11 at 07:38

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score 14 · Answer 3 · answered Dec 04 '19 at 17:22

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For SwiftUI,

TextField("I want entered text to be all lowercase", text:$myText)
     .autocapitalization(.none)

answered Dec 04 '19 at 17:22

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score 6 · Answer 4 · edited Jan 31 '19 at 22:04

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You can set capitalization for TextField in the Text Input Traits of Text Field Attributes in XIB(interface Builder).

edited Jan 31 '19 at 22:04

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answered Apr 06 '11 at 07:43

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score 5 · Answer 5 · answered Apr 06 '11 at 07:41

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set setAutocapitalizationType:UITextAutocapitalizationTypeNone for UITextField.

answered Apr 06 '11 at 07:41

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score 4 · Answer 6 · answered Nov 18 '14 at 16:18

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In Swift:

textField.autocapitalizationType = UITextAutocapitalizationType.None

answered Nov 18 '14 at 16:18

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better yet, `textField.autocapitalizationType = .None` – Matias Elorriaga Dec 20 '16 at 15:18

score 3 · Answer 7 · edited Feb 01 '22 at 07:49

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In Swift you can use the autocapitalizationType property:

yourTextField.autocapitalizationType = .none

edited Feb 01 '22 at 07:49

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answered Feb 13 '18 at 04:29

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nikhilgohil11 · Answer 8 · 2018-09-25T02:20:02.517

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To avoid completely there are three properties that we can set

textField.autocapitalizationType = .none;

and

textfield.autocorrectionType = .no;

and

textField.spellCheckingType = .no

Only setting .autocapitalizationType = .none; works but better we set other both the properties to avoid capitalising from autocorrection and spell checking.

edited Sep 25 '18 at 02:20

answered Sep 25 '18 at 01:54

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How can I disable all capitals so the user cannot type it at all? – Jun 19 '19 at 01:37
Hi @Outsider, implement shouldChangeCharactersIn delegate method for UITextField and then replace a range of string with string.lowercase() in that method and set yourTextField.autocapitalizationType = .none – nikhilgohil11 Jun 19 '19 at 02:08

score 1 · Answer 9 · edited Mar 07 '13 at 07:10

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Try this code:

textfieldname.autocapitalizationType = UITextAutocapitalizationTypeNone;

edited Mar 07 '13 at 07:10

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answered Dec 27 '12 at 08:54

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score 0 · Answer 10 · answered Dec 09 '17 at 05:31

this code will lowercase all the text field input when you type any thing in your targeted text Field

func textField(_ textFieldToChange: UITextField, shouldChangeCharactersIn range: NSRange, replacementString string: String) -> Bool {
         //just change this charectar username  it's a text field
        if textFieldToChange == username {
            let characterSetNotAllowed = CharacterSet.whitespaces
            if let _ = string.rangeOfCharacter(from:NSCharacterSet.uppercaseLetters) {
                return false
            }
            if let _ = string.rangeOfCharacter(from: characterSetNotAllowed, options: .caseInsensitive) {
                return false
            } else {
                return true
            }
        }
        return true
    }

First letter in UiTextField lowercase

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