I cannot delete iPhone keyboard shortcuts. They keep restoring.

Wow. 43 pages and this is STILL going on.

I've now discovered that iOS to iOS synching of shortcuts works fine fine me. However, iOS to OS X or OS X to OS X doesn't work at all.

I've logged out and in to iCloud on my Macs. What else can I do?

I dont know if you ever got a decent answer.

The easy way to add/remove stuff without getting all technical is to go to

you Settings:

then General:

then Keyboard:

And last

TEXT REPLACEMENT.

Here you will be able to edit/delete any words added.

Hope this helps!

oh yeah, I've completely left this & any troubleshooting for an entire 6 months. Decided to peek in to see any new devs & fixes... no such "good" news.

As I've closed down ALL aspects of my life [publishing/promotion/etc] on which I was counting on this to work in that time, do I even bother to try again??? 😐

I have these problem for a long time and I did post something in this thread for awhile back. I believe I have fixed the problem (for months already) and I want to share it here.

1. Goto Settings | General | Keyboards | Text Relacement

2. Instead of deleting the zombie shortcuts, try to rename the shortcut. For example, "omw"->"on my way" changes to "zzz" -> "on my way". Save it.

3. Wait for a few hours. Sometimes, you will see both omw and zzz in the shortcuts. Don't panic. Just delete them one each time and wait for a few hours.

4. If the rename/delete method works, you can repeat the same steps.

Hi, I saw the fix you referenced on page 7 and the many people who attempted to use it. But I cannot seem to find the name of the application that allows you to go in to the iTunes backup and delete the icloud shortcuts. Can you help advise me on some apps available? I searched for some myself, but none of them work on my computer or are not made to accomplish this specific task!

Please help. I have full restored my iphone 4S multiple times as well as factory reset- the shortcuts actually follow me from phone to phone.... It doesn't matter how much data I lose, the shortcuts return... which makes sense because the apple ID and icloud account are still the same.

Now I have purchased a new phone and it's time to end this once and for all! I hope you can help me find a program that works. For now my phone is backed up onto a core 2 duo intel iMac that runs OS 10.6.8.

Thank you.

@iBarrett, do you know if this process still applies to macOS Sierra 10,12,1? Also, do you happen to have any links to resources about the hidden folders, and their files, that reside in each person's iCloud account? I haven't done any searching yet, but this is something I've been wanting to learn more about! I really appreciated finding your post!

I tried the procedure you described, but when it came to adding the .plist extension and viewing the Text Replacements, that part didn't work for me...and I wasn't completely sure to what file I should be adding .plist.

Any additional information you have or resources you can direct me to, I would greatly appreciate it! 🙂

@braintoniq, I realize you've found the procedure on page 32, but I just wanted to let you know that I experienced the same thing you did –– my Real iCloud Drive showed the 'Mobile Documents' folder, as well, and the contents looked very similar to yours. I did not have a Settings folder either.

iOS 9 Keyboard/messages locking/lagging...only hard reboot as option

Has anyone else experienced this??

Confirmed NO FIX IN iOS 8.1.3

Still crashes in settings app and theres no way to delete/edit any shortcuts. This is insanity.

Still no fixes..

my shortcut down going to double and tripple.. all my deleted shortcut were restored back..

Not everyone has a computer. Apple still needs to fix this. I have them deleted for now. But they'll probably come back somehow.

I ended up restoring my iPhone as new. That did the trick. It wiped all shortcuts and I was able to start fresh. Restoring as new is not fun. But I'm no longer bothered by unwanted shortcuts.

???

Is this for a jailbroken phone?

var/mobile ???

I Think his is jailbroken. But I saw this somewhere else too. Here at this site:

http://www.sinfuliphone.com/showthread.php?p=975313

Jailbroken for sure. So, basically useless for most people's situation. Also, since this isn't your own phone, this is (at best) anecdotal and unconfirmed.