{"id":12316,"date":"2015-09-19T07:11:18","date_gmt":"2015-09-19T11:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=12316"},"modified":"2015-10-04T11:59:51","modified_gmt":"2015-10-04T15:59:51","slug":"how-to-turn-ios-9s-keyboard-back-to-all-caps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/19\/how-to-turn-ios-9s-keyboard-back-to-all-caps\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Turn iOS 9’s Keyboard Back to All Caps"},"content":{"rendered":"

John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The main argument I’ve seen in favor<\/a> of this change holds no water: that this is the solution to iOS 7’s is-it-on-or-is-it-off? Schrödinger’s Shift Key<\/a>. The proper solution to an ambiguous Shift key is to replace it with an unambiguous Shift key. The lack of case shifting on the keyboard was not a problem on iOS 1-6 because the Shift key on the old keyboard was unambiguous<\/a>. Whether you prefer a case-shifting keyboard or not, the Shift key should be unambiguous. These are two different things.<\/p>\n

The good news is, Apple did<\/em> improve the Shift key on iOS 9. When not engaged, the arrow glyph on the key cap is now hollow. When Shift is engaged, the key turns white and the arrow is solid black. With Caps Lock on, the arrow gets an underscore. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Update (2015-10-04): Rosyna Keller<\/a> notes that the Mac System 1.1 software keyboard changed the case of the keys.<\/p>\n

Riccardo Mori<\/a> notes that the iOS 9 display of keyboard shortcuts mirrors the Newton’s.<\/p>\n

Eli Schiff<\/a> (comments<\/a>):<\/p>\n

With the release of iOS 9, there have been a variety<\/a> of changes<\/a> to the software keyboard. Unfortunately, none of them have addressed the fundamental problems of its visual design, as much as pundits might claim otherwise.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Gruber: The main argument I’ve seen in favor of this change holds no water: that this is the solution to iOS 7’s is-it-on-or-is-it-off? Schrödinger’s Shift Key. The proper solution to an ambiguous Shift key is to replace it with an unambiguous Shift key. The lack of case shifting on the keyboard was not a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[77,295,31,1137,423,125,527],"class_list":["post-12316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-design","tag-history","tag-ios","tag-ios-9","tag-keyboard","tag-keyboardshortcuts","tag-newton"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12316"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12417,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12316\/revisions\/12417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}