

Under the ‘All keyboards’ section, slide the toggle for ‘Auto-Capitalization’ to the left or simply tap it. From there, tap ‘General’, and go to ‘Keyboard’. To disable this setting, head over to the ‘Settings’ app on your iPhone or iPad.

Let’s discuss Apple devices first as it’s much easier here than it is on Android, ironically enough. On Android and iOS, this setting is controlled by your phone, and the Google Docs app for mobile does not contain a direct setting to manage capitalization! If youve ever decided (or been told) after youve already typed something that whats in lowercase letters now needs to be UPPERCASE, or vice versa. On mobile, however, this is quite different. This should also prevent auto capitalization of proper nouns as well! Disable auto capitalization on Google Docs for the web Uncheck the first option called ‘Automatically capitalize words’.ĥ. Select ‘Preferences’ from the Tools listĤ. An example of typing with auto capitalization turned off in DocsĢ. Beginning a new sentence after a punctuation mark will no longer automatically capitalize the first letter of a sentence on your behalf – you know, if you’re into that kind of thing. If you see a message here that says 'Google Chrome is up to date', your browser doesnt need to update right now. The update process should only take a couple of minutes at most. Once complete, click the blue ‘OK’ button at the bottom right side of the dialogue box and start typing. This option is at the top of the pop-out window. Tools > Preferences > Automatically capitalize words
