Uppercase issue during signup/registration can lead to connection errors - bug report

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Uppercase issue during signup/registration can lead to connection errors - bug report
Uppercase issue during signup/registration can lead to connection errors - bug report
2025-01-22 03:15:47 - last edited 2025-07-17 07:49:29
Model: Tapo D235  
Hardware Version: V1
Firmware Version: 1.1.14

I have found an issue with the email registration process in the Tapo app in IOS. When you start typing your email for registration purposes, the textbox will automatically capitalize the first letter of your email address on IOS phones, like this: John.smith.fake@gmail.com instead of john.smith.fake@gmail.com. (I don't know about Android, have not tried.)
Email addresses are supposed to be case-insensitive, still somehow this email address gets stored in a case-sensitive way in one or more of Tapo's databases. This leads to an awkward situation that when the app tries to validate certain functions it will try using an all-lowercase email address, and compare it with the database using a case-sensitive compare, and these functions will fail. Changing "Doorbell Video Call" is not possible when this happens, and in general the app keeps reminding the user that there are problems with his network. Even if the user uses perfect wifi signal.

As soon as I re-registered using an all-lowercase email address (by explicitly switching to lowercase in the app, because it always wants to start with upper case), all these problems suddenly went away.

I think this is a simple to fix bug, and would save a lot of headaches for the users, and probably get rid of lots of support messages.

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2025-02-13 01:40:51 - last edited 2025-07-17 07:49:29

  @WogewWabbit 

 

Regarding the situation you reported, can you check whether it is an issue with the iPhone keyboard? From my experience, when you enter a new text, the iPhone keyboard will capitalize the first letter by default, and then switch back to lowercase for the second letter.

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2025-01-24 09:36:26

  @WogewWabbit 

 

Thank you for your feedback. I'll report it to the relevant team to test it.

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2025-02-13 01:40:51 - last edited 2025-07-17 07:49:29

  @WogewWabbit 

 

Regarding the situation you reported, can you check whether it is an issue with the iPhone keyboard? From my experience, when you enter a new text, the iPhone keyboard will capitalize the first letter by default, and then switch back to lowercase for the second letter.

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