Keyboard text replacement in iOS 12.1

After further review it does work with less then 128 characters. I have just created two phrases each containing less than 128 characters to get by for now. Yes English on IPhoneX. I have rebooted, hard reset, etc.

Agreed. Text replacement is an indispensable part of my business communications. Proceeding to downgrade to 12.0.1 if I still can, until this is resolved.

Also, while I'm here- It'd be great to have the ability to <break> for multiple paragraphs, for long text replacement entries, of which I have many. Thanks

I think most people reporting it are using English are you using English? Different character sets may have different problems. Have you tried rebooting your phone?

I’m also having this problem,

I have tried restarting my phone several times, deleting all text replacements and putting them back in. Signing out of iCloud and back in nothing has worked.

Thanks for confirming this is a current issue, would love a fix ASAP

Ya I just had to error check this I was using longer filterig strings with pokemon go

So I have talked to Apple they are aware of the issue. No comment on if it's being fixed or a time line for the fix.

Same here. A fix would be appreciated very much.

Joerg

Same issue here. Problem started with iOS 12.1 update. Please fix.

Having the same issue here, I use text replacement a lot too and really frustrating. Thanks for confirming how many characters it’s limited to, fingers crossed apple can fix this.

i have sam issue its serious problem

Mine do not work regardless of the size, i have tried deleting and creating new. No luck. Short or long phrase replacements.

Pasting text in macOS retains line breaks which then sync to my iOS devices. That’s how I work around the breaking problem in iOS.

Text replacements are a very good idea but have been marred by inexplicably sloppy and inconsistent implementation and bugs especially in syncing. It is unfortunately typical Apple to break this but not tell about it or even warn the user when he makes a shortcut longer than the new limit. Also, it makes no sense that this silly limit only exists in iOS 12.1, previous iOS versions still work properly and so does macOS.

I also still can’t understand why Apple thinks it’s a good idea that replacements are found and acted on using a fuzzy search: in many cases a shortcut is used although it may only resemble the actual one with a couple of letters. Like if the first three are right it doesn’t matter what the fourth one is.

I updated to 12.1.1 this morning and it is all working again