Voice dictation doesn’t capitalize the first letter

App Store Needs info Typing & autocorrect English build 466 Normal

christianlivngston · iOS 27.2 · iPhone 18 Pro Max · v2.2.1 ·

Steps to reproduce click microphone in bottom right corner of keyboard and start talking.

1.

What I expected the words start appearing as they are spoken.

What happened instead the first letter of the first word is lower case instead of uppercase.

App settings
Languages: en (active: en)
Full Access: on
LAB: Scrollable suggestions off, Period instead of space on, Smooth suggestions off, Link cleaner off
Dictation: speech device, translate off, offered yes, API key no
Settings changed on this phone (70):
activeLanguageItem=custom
appColorScheme=system
autocorrectInOptOutFields=on
barMenuHidden=custom
barMenuOrder=custom
barToolsEnabled=on
boldKeyText=off
clipboardCaptureMode=always
commaKeyEnabled=on
comma_longpress_mode=
compactNumberRow=on
customColorsEnabled=off
deferSpaceAfterSuggestion=off
deferSpaceAfterWord=off
doubleSpacePeriodEnabled=on
emojiBarMode=symbols
emojiKeyEnabled=off
enabledLanguages=[en]
engineV2Multiword=off
extendedAccents=off
functionKeyMarksEnabled=on
gestureDisabled=
gestureKeyMap=custom
hapticEnabled=off
hapticIntensity=0.33
hapticSharpness=0.36
icloudSyncAPIKey=on
icloudSyncSettings=on
icloudSyncWords=on
keyAffordanceIconsEnabled=on
keyLabelScale=1
keyPressAnimationEnabled=off
keyPressAnimationSpeed=fast
keyPressAnimationStyle=jump
keyPreviewEnabled=on
keyboardHeightScale=1.05
keyboardSetupCustom=custom
keyboardSetupCustomSavedAt=1792785647.72
keyboardSkin=native
languageExtraKeys=off
languageItems=custom
languageKeyEnabled=off
languagePairs=[]
longPressDelay=0.15
longPressHintsMode=all
multilanguageEnabled=off
nativeExactColors=on
nativeReturnKeyColor=on
numberRowEnabled=on
oneHandedActive=off
oneHandedAllowed=on
oneKeyboardSize=off
periodKeyEnabled=on
returnToLettersAfterSymbol=off
shiftBeforeSwipeRecasesWord=off
shiftCycleFirstLetterOnly=on
shiftCycleScope=both
shiftCyclesWordCase=on
singleActiveLanguage=on
spaceAfterFullStop=off
spaceAfterPunctuation=on
spaceLanguageSwipeEnabled=off
stockSymbolLayout=off
suggestionBarHidden=off
swipeBackspaceByLetter=off
swipeLettersContinueWord=off
swipeSpaceAfterPunctuation=on
swipeToTypeEnabled=off
translateMode=device
widerLetterKeys=off

Discussion

efko DEV ·
status → Open
efko DEV ·

@christianlivngston the mic in the bottom right corner under the keyboard is Apple's dictation, not EFKey's. iOS types that text into the field by itself and EFKey can't touch it, and with third-party keyboards iOS sometimes leaves the first word lowercase. Others ran into the same thing in B215 and S275. If you know another third-party keyboard where Apple's mic keeps the first letter capitalized, tell me which one so I can compare.

efko DEV ·
status → Needs info

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