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Deleted keyboard shortcuts show back up?

OK, I've noticed this issue over the past several months (if not a year). I have an iPhone, iPad, and a MacBook Pro. At some point I had set up Settings > General > Keyboard > Shortcuts. Over time I changed a few of the shortcuts, and deleted some. Now I'm noticing all of the shortcuts I've ever created keep showing back up on all devices. I have some case sensitive dups, and some that shouldn't be there at all.


I just tested this out with all three devices in front of me. I opened the keyboard shortcuts settings up on all three, then removed all of the shortcuts I no longer wanted on all devices. I then rebooted the iPhone and iPad. Upon reboot, the deleted shortcuts were back again. They also almost immediately showed back up on the MacBook Pro.


Where can I permanently delete these? Is there a master copy somewhere in cloud land? Do I need to stop something from sync'ing to resolve this?


Message was edited by: Kizmar (spell check, updated phone 🙂

iPhone 6, iOS 8.2, null

Posted on Mar 19, 2015 5:13 AM

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Oct 11, 2015 9:04 PM in response to Kizmar

Ok so, no one ever attempts to answer anything on this stupid forum. Here's what I ended up doing...


I deleted all keyboard shortcuts, rebooted the device. Waited a couple minutes then deleted all the shortcuts that showed back up. Rebooted the device. Rinse and repeat. Eventually they stopped showing back up, but only after deleting ALL of the keyboard shortcuts Every time.

Deleted keyboard shortcuts show back up?

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