text replacement ios 12

There are no replacements listed there, but when I type xo it's replaced by xxxxoooo. I guess that because it's invisible it's also undeletable. Great.

My xs max have all replace text but can not use.

This is happening to me too & it’s driving me crazy! I’ve tried everything!!

Becky,

Since updating to 12.1 I can no longer use text replacements. I see them in my settings but, they do not work anymore after the update in text messages. Please help.

Thank you Adralia .. I couldn't figure out what was going wrong, but you have solved the riddle. Hopefully Apple will re-think and fix this silly change

Same issues here. Need a workaround. This is affecting my business communication flow. The arbitrary character limit is just stupid.

Oddly enough. iPad and iMac isn’t affected by the limit... yet

I have text replacements set up under the character limit that still don’t work. Did they offer any other explanation?!

Text replacement was so helpful but now with the limit there is no use for it... i am so disappointed... I hope apple removes the chartecter limit

EVERYONE, how can we escalate this to apple so they remove the charecter limit?

Am I the only one that it’s NOT the character limit?! I have some text replacements that are well below even 50 characters and they still don’t work!!

Interestingly you can create a text replacement of more than 128 characters - it just won't work. Seems a half baked job if it was an intention to restrict to 128 characters.

THANK YOU

You stated exactly what the problem and the solution is. 128 characters or less.

Apple, quit jerking your customers around with frustrating and evidently arbitrary and un-divulged changes.

yes worked for me...

Others are reporting that your solution does not help. Can you please reply with the best solution? Thanks!

This new 128 character limit is absurd and a huge disrespect to all apple users that support this company! Simple as that!