Text replacement not working in Sierra

Apple engineers and Apple support please note and add it to the list of broken features inside Mac OS.

Before Sierra, text replacement synced between iPhone, iPad and iMac seamlessly.

No longer.

Since Sierra, text replacement no longer syncs. Furthermore, you may add all your text replacement inside your iMac keyboard, but when you restart your computer, it will have deleted them all.

Below screenshot example of some of my text replacement shortcuts before restarting my iMac.

Below screenshot of the text replacement window, with nothing saved after my restart.

iMac, macOS Sierra (10.12), iPad Pro, iPhone 6S

Posted on Mar 5, 2017 3:03 PM

36 replies

dialabrain

Level 10

135,971 points

Mar 6, 2017 3:42 AM in response to stayingaliveuk

FWIW, Apple is not here. This is a user's forum.

You can send Apple feedback here…

http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

mkpub

Level 1

55 points

Nov 23, 2017 9:28 AM in response to stayingaliveuk

For me, it started working again all of a sudden; I didn't notice it being tied to the most recent High Sierra and iOS 11 updates.

I stumbled upon some context over at Daring Fireball here and here — whatever the fix, it's been an oversight that is being fixed. Depending on what "cloud" kernel you're "running on," your fix may appear soon (hopefully). Happy T-Day 🙂

Mar 6, 2017 4:00 AM in response to dialabrain

Thank you so much, really appreciate that link, didn't have it previously.

Success!

dialabrain

Level 10

135,971 points

Mar 6, 2017 5:53 AM in response to stayingaliveuk

You're welcome.

theolog

Level 1

122 points

Jun 10, 2017 3:45 AM in response to stayingaliveuk

Were you ever able to find a fix for this? I'm having the same issue :-(

Jun 10, 2017 5:01 AM in response to theolog

Not yet.

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Text replacement not working in Sierra