iCloud sync messes up keyboard shortcuts on ios

when I got my iphone6 all my shortcuts were gone after restoring from backup.

So I re-entered them one by one. Made a new list.

Since I made from scratch, my new list of shortcuts has some differences compared to the old one.

Then few days later I realized all my old shortcuts were back.

So I now have duplicates.

And since my new list has some differences I get some of the same shortcut keys leading to different phrases, and vice versa.

You'd think just merely deleting or re-editing would solve the problem. Nope, it didn't. All it does is make a new entry "in the icloud" whenever there's an edit. And deleted ones will come back again the next day.

AND to make matters worse, while re-editing my list I had made some mistakes, and even after going back to alter my mistakes, the wrong ones never went away.

The list just keeps piling up.

I edit an existing entry, it syncs and the next day the old and new both show up.

I delete, they all come back the next day - the new, the old, the edits, the deleted, everything.

So now some of my shortcuts I cant use because they either show mistakes or won't reflect the new updated phrases.

I don't use iCloud drive. Predictive text is off. Documents & Data is off. Backup on iCloud is off and deleted. Even keychain is off now. Anything and everything that can be switched off for iCloud is off except find my iPhone.

Keyboard shortcuts on my iPad, iMac, MBP were manually deleted and iCloud on these other devices are all off now.

Still, these didn't solve the problem.

The only option now is to disconnect iCloud altogether on my iPhone.

Oh and one more thing, if I type in a shortcut that contains more than 3letters in a form, eg an address field, Safari hangs.

It's a nightmare!