Upgraded to IOS 11 & Text Replacement Not Syncing!

Upgraded to IOS 11 & now Tex Replacement not syncing. I rely on this feature SO much, what a PITA. Apple: please fix this NOW. Any suggestions from users appreciated!

iPad Air 2 Wi-Fi, iOS 11.0.2, Text replacement sync not working!

Posted on Oct 9, 2017 6:05 PM

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Nov 12, 2017 4:48 AM in response to jtown913

Thanks very much jtown913. I have just set up my new iPhone X from my iPhone 6s, and the text replacement wasn't saving and the page was all blank. I followed your instructions, and within minutes, all my text replacements were reinstated. I had actually forgotten they all get saved via the iCloud so I didn't actually have to retype anything back in.

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Nov 30, 2017 2:55 PM in response to jtown913

Thanks for the tip. This brought back the “On my way” default entry but not my list of several hundred in icloud. Phone is iPhone X, 11.2 beta5. Interestingly, when I add a shortcut on this iphone X device it shows up on all my other devices, and when I delete that new shortcut it is also quickly deleted across the other devices. But none of any test additions/changes/deletions made on the other devices ever reflects on the iPhone X. All the other devices are pre-iOS11 firmwares.


Synchronizing two columns of simple data should be trivial, yet Apple has managed to mangle it for 5 years now and wasted countless **millions** of hours of their customers’ precious time. It’s so appalling I simply have no words..

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Upgraded to IOS 11 & Text Replacement Not Syncing!

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