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Capital letters

Flikzi has no shift key. A capital is a flick, and most capitals come by themselves.

Flick a letter up​

Put your thumb on a letter and flick it up. You get its capital, anywhere in a word: iPhone, USA, a name.

A capital you flicked stays, whatever word autocorrect puts in.

Automatic capitals​

Flikzi starts every sentence with a capital, even in apps that don't ask for it. The keys show capital letters when the next letter will be one. Autocorrect also uses the dictionary's own spellings, so i becomes I and monday becomes Monday.

To turn sentence capitals off: open Flikzi, Typing, Capitalise sentences.

A whole word: the right half of the space bar​

The right half of the space bar shows Aa between two small arrows. Flick there to change the case of a word:

  • Flick up: lower case becomes Capital, and Capital becomes ALL CAPS.
  • Flick down: back the other way, ALL CAPS to Capital to lower case.

It acts on the word you're typing. If you've selected text, every word in it changes, and the text stays selected so you can flick again. Otherwise it changes the word before the cursor, even after a comma.

Before a word​

At the start of a sentence, or with no word before the cursor, the flick sets the case of the next word you type. A sentence start already gets a capital, so flick up for ALL CAPS, or down for lower case. The strip above the keys says what the next word will be.

ALL CAPS that stays on​

Flick the right half of the space bar up and keep holding. ALL CAPS goes on for everything you type: the keys show capitals, and Aa on the space bar becomes AA.

To switch it off, flick down in the same place, or flick up and hold again. It also goes off when you move to another text field.

In passwords​

Password fields have no autocorrect, so a flick up is how you type a capital there.

Languages without capitals​

Chinese, Japanese and Korean have no capitals, so the space bar shows no Aa there. In Korean, a flick up on a consonant types its double. Korean