Keyboard Shortcuts/Text Replacement Not Syncing

I had this same problem and believe I found a fix:

1. Write down your current Text Expansion shortcuts (take a screenshot, use Grab, etc.).
2. Sign out of iCloud on your iOS device.
3. On your Mac, go to System Preferences>iCloud>Manage..., select "TextInput" from the left-hand column, and then click "Delete Documents and Data" (see the screenshot below)

4. Go to Keyboard>Text. Verify that your shortcuts are correct. Add and/or delete one to generate a sync with iCloud.

5. Log back into iCloud on your iOS device.

This fixed syncing between my Mac and iPhone. I noticed the iPhone had some duplicates, the fix there was to delete both duplicates on the iPhone, and then add them on the Mac.

Flashx wrote:

Yep this is infuriating!!! APPLE FIX THE BLOODY THING! HONESTLY!!!

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They will not reply, but it does get read.

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Yep this is infuriating!!! APPLE FIX THE BLOODY THING! HONESTLY!!!

Thank you, i have now submitted the bug, cheers 🙂

I had this problem.

I just now deleted one of the shortcuts and typed it in afresh, and it worked.

I thought I was going to have to do this for all my shortcuts, but all of a sudden they worked too.

So try deleting and replacing just one and see what happens.

I just reset my phone and got this problem. What worked for me was

a) log out of icloud

b) reboot

c) log in again

d) open keyboard shortcuts and *keep them open*

I forgot about my phone and suddenly the shortcuts were synched.

See the last part of the 1st OP post.

keyboard shortcuts not syncing, bug not fixed with repeated iOS updates

It seems that now, since iOS 9.3, I have the same problem that Hans has so thoroughly described above.

My iCloud Keyboard Shortcuts WILL NOT SYNC ?! It seems the all keyboard shortcuts should be stored in iCloud under any valid Apple ID, and they should be kept in sync AUTOMATICALLY, with all devices associated with that Apple ID, on some periodic basis. Yes?

In the past (before iOS 9 .1) I was always able to FORCE my keyboard shortcuts to sync, for each device, if they somehow got out of sync, by adding (or deleting) any new, random shortcut on any one of my four devices. And, yes, that weird TRICK had always had worked, for me, since iOS 8, up to iOS 9.2.x.

NO more. As of iOS 9.3 and 9.3.1 nothing I have tried to do has worked. My devices are not in sync anymore for my keyboard shortcuts. I have a few dozen custom keyboard shortcuts that I have created over the last few years... I have a Mac, and iPhone 4s, and iPhone 5, and an iPad air. All on the same Apple ID. The iPhone 4s is a spare (Wi-Fi only) back up device... the iPhone 5 my main mobile device... Those two have been able to stay in sync.

However the Macintosh (OS X 10.3 El Capitan) and the iPad Air are out of sync with my two iPhones.

What's up with that? Is there a workaround? The keyboard shortcut should be in sync, and they are not, for me, beginning with iOS 9.3. Bummer!

Please help? Anyone? Someone?

i'm having the exact same issue. It's driving me nuts. I've tried everything they refuse to sync. Anyone have any ideas?

Well I just discovered this, Obviously I don't use this much. I think I just learned they synced at all. Just when I realized they synced, they don't anymore. I'm glad I googled this so soon; thank you for minimizing my frustration with this issue. Add another on to the list. mail.app still does't send my default font. I started complaining about that on or soon after "March 24, 2001". Every once and a while I try mail.app and send something; then, I change my default font and look in my sent folder; you shouldn't be able to change the font in a sent email.

I had this problem with OS X 10.9.5 and iOS9 when I moved to a newly wiped, fresh install of an iPhone 5S. Both are logged into my only iCloud account, which behaves well in all other cases. I thought this issue might be resolved when I finally updated my Mac (late 2013 Air) to 1.11.5, but no change. Very disappointing. I don't know what Apple actually did to the text shortcuts. They weren't great and don't hold a candle to TypeIt4Me, but they were helpful.

I had this issue from day one of getting my ipad pro. Today it resolved. The predictive text option that everyone says to turn off never worked. However, I was always doing it from my ipad pro. Today I looked at my iphone 6s plus and decided to turn it off there. Then I rebooted they iphone. I then rebooted the ipad pro. The iphone came up first so I logged in to make sure it was syncing etc. Then the ipad pro came up and I logged and the text replacement sync was working.

I don't know if the reboots and order of operations I did made a difference but that worked and it was the only thing after hours of trying crap to get this thing to sync.

Another strange occurrence:

On my Mac,my expansions stopped working last week. I had Edit->Substitutions->Text Replacement on in every app and had not turned it off anywhere. But suddenly, for the first time since this feature was introduced, all expansions stopped working. Several days of frustration.

But I just tried some expansions again and they are mysteriously back on.

But get this: They are also working on my iPhone! (iOS9)

For the first time since I set up this phone, about 2 months ago, as a fresh install.

I have no idea why they stopped but I wonder... yesterday, to save iPhone battery, I turned off Siri. Then the phone ran all the way down, so I restarted the phone today and also turned Siri back on. Could that be a solution?

I had, by the way, tried turning off Predictive Text but that had not helped. I'd also tried logging out of iCloud everywhere. That had not helped my issue either. I had done NOTHING on the Mac to turn the Text Replacement off or on, but maybe the Siri change triggered something.