# New tags created in Android app lower case only

**URL:** <https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/new-tags-created-in-android-app-lower-case-only/21761>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [15 November 2021 18:43 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/new-tags-created-in-android-app-lower-case-only/21761 "2021-11-15T18:43:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![zijin\_cheng](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/zijin_cheng/32/11453_2.png) [@zijin\_cheng](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/zijin_cheng)\
**Post date:** [15 November 2021 18:43 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/new-tags-created-in-android-app-lower-case-only/21761/1 "2021-11-15T18:43:31Z")

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When I create tags in the Android app, any new tags I create are in lower case even though I typed them in upper case. Not sure how to enable capitalization in tags?

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**Author:** ![Daeraxa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/daeraxa/32/6172_2.png) [@Daeraxa](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/Daeraxa)\
**Post date:** [15 November 2021 19:06 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/new-tags-created-in-android-app-lower-case-only/21761/2 "2021-11-15T19:06:07Z")

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Joplin currently changes them all to lowercase. You can update them to capitals if you edit them directly in the database (I don't know if this has any other knock-on effect) or possibly via the data API as well.

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**Author:** ![dpoulton](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/dpoulton/32/30800_2.png) [@dpoulton](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/dpoulton)\
**Post date:** [16 November 2021 09:45 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/new-tags-created-in-android-app-lower-case-only/21761/3 "2021-11-16T09:45:29Z")

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@zijin_cheng welcome to the forum.

You are not the only one to mention this. This thread about lower case tags has been running for a couple of years now.

> [@Tags - Lower Case Only?](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/tags-lower-case-only/4220):
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> I know this is minor but is there is a plan to allow upper case characters in tags? Some of the tags I now use are related to established acronyms, such as RFC and ISO, and these as well as other tags appearing as all lower-case just doesn’t look right. Is there some fundamental reason that Joplin converts all tags to lower-case? If not could this possibly be considered as an enhancement suggestion with any subsequent tag sorting / searching being case-insensitive? I have searched the forum but…

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/cozic/original/3X/1/c/1c948e33314e232a0927789508474d8624f4270b.png) [@system](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [16 December 2021 09:46 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/new-tags-created-in-android-app-lower-case-only/21761/4 "2021-12-16T09:46:30Z")

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Closed on 16 December 2021 09:46 UTC

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