diff --git a/src/TextForEvent.js b/src/TextForEvent.js
index f99cf7bde5..55ea500092 100644
--- a/src/TextForEvent.js
+++ b/src/TextForEvent.js
@@ -252,10 +252,7 @@ function textForWidgetEvent(event) {
     const senderName = event.sender ? event.sender.name : event.getSender();
     const previousContent = event.getPrevContent() || {};
     const {name, type, url} = event.getContent() || {};
-    let widgetName = widgetName || name || type || previousContent.type || '';
-
-    // Apply sentence case
-    widgetName = widgetName ? widgetName[0].toUpperCase() + widgetName.slice(1).toLowerCase() + ' ' : '';
+    const widgetName = widgetName || name || type || previousContent.type || '';
 
     // If the widget was removed, its content should be {}, but this is sufficiently
     // equivalent to that condition.
diff --git a/src/components/views/elements/AppTile.js b/src/components/views/elements/AppTile.js
index a493810c52..a411e1d6f6 100644
--- a/src/components/views/elements/AppTile.js
+++ b/src/components/views/elements/AppTile.js
@@ -183,7 +183,6 @@ export default React.createClass({
         let appTileName = "No name";
         if(this.props.name && this.props.name.trim()) {
             appTileName = this.props.name.trim();
-            appTileName = appTileName[0].toUpperCase() + appTileName.slice(1).toLowerCase();
         }
         return appTileName;
     },