Cannot start words at the beginning of sentences with lower cased letters with the Smart Keyboard

Another annoying bug that I am sure Federico has many Radars on.

When using a Smart Keyboard on my iPad, I cannot start words at the beginning of sentences with a lower cased letter. IOS (see!) just won’t let me do it.

The only lame workaround is to press and hold on the down caret in the bottom-right corner of the screen until the software keyboard comes up, then toggle the shift key off.

Tapping the shift key on the Smart Keyboard does nothing.

Grr.

iOS 11.2.1 (grr)