Keyboard Shortcuts/Text Replacement Not Syncing

Not sure how you missed this but the solution is very obvious. Throw away all of your Apple devices and buy brand new ones, they will be perfectly synced, and they won't fall out of your ears even when you go dancing with them!

I promise, I heard this from the CEO of Apple himself!

/s

Is there still no solution to this?

This has worked/not worked intermittently since they added syncing in iOS 7. Suddenly it started working great across all three of my devices (iMac, iPad, and iPhone) with iOS 9 and El Capitan. After upgrading to iOS 10, everything was still smooth sailing.

Then I upgraded my iMac to Sierra, and all text replacements disappeared there. They are still working great and syncing between my iPad and iPhone, but the iMac is neither receiving nor sending new replacements.

I don’t see how syncing some text strings across iCloud can be so difficult that it remains broken 3 years later.

This is how I setup my devices to have this sync working:

On the Mac, have iCloud Drive turned on, with this Option setting turned on.

The one that says System Preferences:

On you iOS device, make sure you're using the same iCloud credentials and turn iCloud Drive on.

That is all.

I tried this but it didn't work for me.

Did you get any solution for this, I face similar problem. My text replacements are syncing over iPad and iPhone but not from/to MacBook Pro

any ideas ?

Final solution (this has worked for me)

I created a new user in MacBook Pro and then synced and everything worked. I don't know what went right/wrong but it worked.

May be this is useful for you.

Dear you all,

Here is what I've found so far with sync problems between MacOS and iOS devices.

• Hardware used for this investigation
  • MacBook12 MacOS 10.12.1
  • iPadPro9 iOS 10.1.1
  • iPadPro12 iOS 10.1.1
  • iPhone7+ iOS 10.1.1
• Initial actions
  • Save all existing shiortcuts in a text file
  • Removed all shortcuts from every device
• Situation analysis
  • Shortcuts created on iPhone7+ don't sync at all to other devices
  • Shortcuts created on iPads sync between iPads but not to MacBook12 and iPhone7+
  • Shortcuts created on MacBook12 flawlessly sync to all devices
  • Removing a shortcut on an iOS device removes it from the device itself but stays on the others

Conclusion

• To see all your shortcuts synced to all your devices, manage them from the Mac

Hope it'll work for you

François

I noticed this to. I think I found a way round. You have to make the shortcuts on your IOS device and then it should sync with mac. For some reason mac to IOS doesn't sync but IOS to mac does.

I hope this helps

AlienCamel.com wrote:

This is how I setup my devices to have this sync working:

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After a few syncs this solution stopped working.

I've now resorted to using Textexpander. Sigh.

Hmm it seems you are using an earlier version of Mac OS X.

Mac OS X 10.11.5 does not have System Preferences as a choice for syncing in the iCloud documents.

None of the apps that sync end with .app and I have tried dragging System Preferences to the window

It seems this functionality got lost in the shuffle of iOS 10 and El Capitan.

When you logged out of iCloud did you get any message that this would delete Contacts or anything else?

Did you ever find a solution?