Lost all my Keyboard Text Replacements after Monterey upgrade. But they're still on my iPhone. Can I transfer / backup from iPhone to Mac?

Lost all my Keyboard Text Replacements after Monterey upgrade. (Huge pain! I had hundreds saved!) They're still on my iPhone, though. Which doesn't make sense because they're backed up in iCloud, and the ones on my phone are the ones I created on my mac.... Anyway, I NEED SOLUTIONS:


  • Can I transfer / backup the Keyboard Text Replacements from my iPhone to my Mac?


  • If not, is there any other way for me to restore Keyboard Text Replacements on my Mac? I use Time Machine....


I'm referring to:

[mac:] System Preferences > Keyboard > Text (tab)

[iOS:] Settings > General > Keyboard > Text Replacement

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 12.6

Posted on Oct 4, 2022 1:18 PM

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Oct 4, 2022 5:00 PM in response to cougarrrr

Maybe, cougarrrr… I had the same problem on my old iPhone, but with music rather than keyboard text replacements … I made a bunch of music and transferred it to my old iPhone ( a 7plus) via iTunes or another way ( I forget exactly how ) … but I couldn’t get my music off of my old iPhone , at least not with iTunes …. And its battery was dying… and I didn’t want to lose all of my music off the iPhone should something bad happen to it.., so I was lucky enough to get an iPhone 13 Pro Max… most of the original stuff went over just fine from the old iPhone to the new one… ( put one next to the other, make sure Bluetooth and wifi are on, on both, and it syncs via wifi ) but not the music… so what to do ? I used “senuti” to get my music off of my old iPhone and onto my Mac…it’ll grab everything if you want it to… so I don’t see why it wouldn’t be able to grab your keyboard text replacements… wherever they might be on your iPhone… anyways, that’s what worked for me… as for the name, it’s “iTunes” spelled backward…


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