Just updated to IOS 10 and text replacement is not working

I force-quit all my open apps and then force restarted my iPhone 7 and text replacement is working, syncing. Before, I could not even save a new replacement string on the phone. Normal restart did not help.

On an iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus: Press and hold both the Sleep/Wake and Volume Down buttons for at least ten seconds, until you see the Apple logo.

On an iPhone 6s and earlier, iPad, or iPod touch: Press and hold both the Sleep/Wake and Home buttons for at least ten seconds, until you see the Apple logo.

Problem:

upon iPhone restoration text replacement disappears some time and turning iCloud Drive on/off and logging in/out of iCloud doesn’t solve the problem.

I have over 100 Shortcuts now and Im so used to of them. Without text replacement it made my texting and emailing life really hard on both iOS and MacOSX. Im still having issues on Mac OSX Sierra. If got a solution please help me.

Fix for IOS:

This method has fixed my issues 4 times now. Every now and then I restore my iPhone especially when new update comes out I restore my phone instead of updating is.

So the fix is

Sign out of iCloud and go to

General

Reset

Reset All Settings (Not Erase All Content and Settings)

Once reseting is finished phone will restart and all user settings will be gone like wifi, Bluetooth bla bla bla you need to reset them

but hey thats not a problem, now Sign back into iCloud and check your Text replacement they will be back.

I guess when we restore from backup sometime iCloud faces sync issues but resetting settings will fix it.

Im not sure if it will fix your issues but this method has fixed my issues 4 times now.

Good Luck

But Im having same issue on my OSX Sierra and nothing really worked. I do not want to restore it as I have lots of data on it and it will takes ages to restore it again. if you know how to fix it please reply to this post.

I have done the old trick: sign out from iCloud and sign back in. unfortunately, it didn't do the trick. The same happened on my iMac when updating to macOS Sierra - I lost all my text replacement. I also did sign out from iCloud and sign back in. unfortunately, it also didn't do the trick. Anyone know how to restore the text replacement. Isn't it resided in the cloud?

I did but fixed it. First I signed out and then logged back in with my apple user ID. I also turned off auto correction and shortcuts in settings under keyboard. No luck. I signed back in, turned everything back on. Still no luck. Then I shut down my iPad rebooted and now it works. Hope this helps. Good luck.

Same here. text replacement was missing with the beta versions too. I submit this to Apple via the feedback app two or three beta versions ago but nada!

Same issue here.

Tried this but all it did was restore the stupid "omw" message not the thousands I had before update.

in addition I now cannot enable my keychain. 😠 Hmmmm. Whatis the best solution?

Matthew110607 wrote:

Tried this but all it did was restore the stupid "omw" message not the thousands I had before update.

I spent an hour and a half on tech support with level 2 and they couldn't do a **** thing about it. All of my devices said I had to verify the device on ANOTHER device, making it IMPOSSIBLE. I got so frustrated I just reset the keychain.

I Had the same issue and tried lots of different things. this is what worked for me, I typed omw and On my way! Came up, after that all my shortcuts works.

Wish that worked...

Having the same issue. Tried reboot, no luck. Probably lost at least 50 phrases. Always a good idea to wait awhile before upgrading to a new iOS. I never seem to learn that lesson....

me too. same issue. I tried signing in and out and rebooting… Nothing worked. Thank you for starting this discussion.

Mine was fixed. On my iPhone, I first turned off iCloud drive, then signed out, then rebooted. I signed back into iCloud then it took a minute for my phrases to load.

^ This didn't work for me.

It did bring up an odd point though. Signing out of iCloud and Drive and rebooting the phone resulted in the "omw" shortcut coming back and the deleting of five "essential" shortcuts I had made in the interim. It eventually restored my five "new" shortcuts that I had created after this problem began, but not the other 995 or so shortcuts I had made prior to upgrading to iOS 10.

So that says to me that somehow upgrading just wiped them off of iCloud for some reason. It's also VERY clear that the issue is iCloud-based, not locally backed up or anything based as initially suggested.

Sure would love a way to get back my 1,000 or so shortcuts so I don't have to manually enter them again, but if it restored five new ones, that's probably a good indication that the old ones are gone.

This happened to me when I moved to iOS 9 as well. But not on incremental updates like 9.1, 9.2, etc. And then again on 10.

I'm hesitant to redo all my shortcuts only to have them disappear when I get my new iPhone 7 next week though...so I'd love it if someone could solve this problem.

I wonder if I could trigger the transfer from iCloud to the phone using an old backup. There is a file called CloudUserDictionary.sqlite located under iPhone/System Files/Keyboard Domain/CoreData/Mobile/User Dictionary/D5555ds;aljkfd;lfj/store