How to recover Keyboard Text Replacement lost after iCloud Restore

Here's what worked for me: Go to Settings>Keyboard>Text Replacements... on your Mac (Ventura in my case), "select all", right-click and 'Export' the list to your desktop/downloads (wherever you like). Now, delete all of them.

Right click again and 'Import' the list you just exported. This immediately sent all of them back to my phone.

I tried this after realizing that when I created a new text replacement on my iPhone, it immediately showed up on my MacBook. I then created one on my MacBook that immediately showed up on my iPhone. So, after weeks of frustration, I now have all my (years worth of) text replacements back on my iPhone. Thanks Apple..... 🤨

Hi SunnyInToronto,

If you no longer see it even after restoring device, then it can't be recovered. You'd have to create new Text Replacements.

Take care.

Got it, SunnyInToronto,

In order to restore the text replacements, you would need to restore a backup of your iPhone which included the text replacements as outlined here: Restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch from a backup

Take care!

Hello SunnyInToronto,

Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.

If you are looking for text replacement on your Mac, you may just need to make sure it is set up properly after resetting your Mac. Take a look at this article for how to do this: Replace text and punctuation in documents on Mac - Apple Support

Let us know how it goes.

Best regards.

Hello SunnyInToronto,

You'd want to contact the developer of this Text Replacement app to determine your options for backing up their app.

In order to accomplish this, see the following steps: How to contact an app developer

Wishing you well, cheers.

Hello SunnyInToronto,

Those are great questions! This article explains what is included in both iCloud backups and computer backups: Backup methods for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch - Apple Support. In a nutshell, if any information on an Apple device is being stored in iCloud or online (such as email), the information isn’t included in either.

Save keystrokes with text replacements on iPhone - Apple Support -- Text replacement can reside either on the device, or synced through iCloud. Unless you had to physically add each text replacement on both devices, you were probably using iCloud to sync them which means they were not backed up.

At this point, we recommend contacting Apple Support to see if they can be recovered: Get Support

Wishing you well, take care.