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I cannot delete iPhone keyboard shortcuts. They keep restoring.

I have deleted old keyboard shortcuts that were no longer used and added new ones using the same shortcut. For instance typing "eml" would auto-fill with my old email address. I deleted this shortcut and made a new one - "eml" = new email address. iCloud keeps restoring the old shortcuts, so now I have two "eml" shortcuts with two different email addresses. Also, old shortcuts are constantly being restored! I cannot delete any shortcut! They will delete for a couple of days and then they are "restored" to my iPhone. How the heck do you permanently delete keyboard shortcuts in iOS? I tried turning off backup, deleting, turning on, waiting, updating to no avail. Is there a way to completely wipe the backup/settings file stored in iCloud for an iOS device?

Posted on Nov 7, 2014 11:46 AM

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Mar 12, 2015 10:06 AM in response to skit347

I don't think that works. It appears the shortcuts are not actually stored in iCloud as other documents and data are stored. I tried deleting the shortcuts and immediately doing a fresh back up. They stayed gone until I did a reboot of any kind. So I think if you deleted them. Then restored to a new back up of iCloud, you'll still get them back with a reboot. Actually they would most likely be there after restoring. Apple told me to restore as new. That worked. It wiped out every single shortcut I had listed. So I was able to start fresh. Plus, I can delete a shortcut now and it stays gone.

Mar 12, 2015 11:56 AM in response to skit347

Yeah. I really needed to do a restore as new. I had other issues as well. I'm on my old iP 5. It was a bit of a hassle, but I cured several issues, gained 1.3 gb if storage back, and it runs smoother. I'm can only suggest 1. Delete the unwanted shortcuts. 2. Immediately do an iCloud back up. 3. Don't reboot or you'll have to do 1 and 2 again. ☮

Mar 12, 2015 6:36 PM in response to rdub76

Success so far it's been two days and the shortcuts have not returned


did the changes on both devices as step by step


on both devices I went to settings / / general / keyboard / Shortcuts, tapped edit, then clicked the red circles, leaving just one shortcut

then on both Apple devices I went to settings / general / keyboard/ and turned off dictatation / clicked the pop up "turn off dictation" then turned Dictatation back on


Turned off both the iPad and iPhone then back on

on both went to settings / / general / keyboard / Shortcuts, then clicked edit and removed the last remaining shortcut


warning the spell checker and seri took a while to learn my texting style and acted like is was vary messed up at first

i just wrote note in notes 100 or so words and it seems fine now it still relearning learning my commen writing style


good luck

Mar 13, 2015 7:20 AM in response to rdub76

Success so far it's been two days and the shortcuts have not returned


did the changes on both devices as step by step


on both devices I went to settings / / general / keyboard / Shortcuts, tapped edit, then clicked the red circles, leaving just one shortcut

then on both Apple devices I went to settings / general / keyboard/ and turned off dictatation / clicked the pop up "turn off dictation" then turned Dictatation back on


Turned off both the iPad and iPhone then back on

on both went to settings / / general / keyboard / Shortcuts, then clicked edit and removed the last remaining shortcut


warning the spell checker and seri took a while to learn my texting style and acted like is was vary messed up at first

i just wrote note in notes 100 or so words and it seems fine now it still relearning learning my commen writing style


good luck


Hey, zoso4

also did a hard reset this morning and the shortcuts did not return

I cannot delete iPhone keyboard shortcuts. They keep restoring.

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