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Florin • 11 years ago

I have iphone 4 with ios 6, the same problem, I reboot
the phone , create new shortcut, delete a shortcut, all fine for 3-4 hours, then the shortcuts won't work anymore. Apple should fix this fast, it`s annoying.

Tyson Breuer • 11 years ago

same problem

oh • 11 years ago

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Tintin • 11 years ago

I think its a tag he use in wordpress to present youtube videos in articles.

blizzrdof77 • 11 years ago

hahaha..

sensientuk • 11 years ago

I turned off "settings->ICloud->documents and data" then checked
my shortcuts... some were missing some were duplicated (I assume the
cloud and my device had the shortcut but sych had not worked correctly)
deleted to duplicates.

BUT the others now worked.

Turned "settings->ICloud->documents and data" back on, created a new shortcut and this now worked also.

Time will tell if this "fix" is only temporary - but to me it looks like an issue with the ICloud synch

b1scu17 • 11 years ago

Turning off icloud documents made my shortcuts work instantly.
I turned it on again and it stopped working again.
Turned it off again - worked.
Turned it back on again and it seems to be working now. Hopefully stays this way.

David • 11 years ago

Turned off iCloud document sync and rebooted. Works perfectly now.

Yalda A • 11 years ago

this simple trick worked perfectly - thanks!

Laik Lim • 11 years ago

yes. Correct solution. It works after i turn off ciloud documents.

Amien • 11 years ago

Top comment!

worked instantly, better and easier than the article solution :)

Lil'Miss Tee • 10 years ago

Worked perfectly ... Thank you!

Rizwan Omar • 10 years ago

Working with this solution.

Sylvain • 11 years ago

YES! Thanks for the tip

Randy Baker • 10 years ago

This works. Thanks!

Catherine L Mommsen • 10 years ago

This worked for me.

Juliet Purll • 11 years ago

without having checked this, I am going with your theory about iCloud. Like you guys report, my keyboard shortcuts are disappearing randomly and then returning when I do one of the above t/s steps, then disappearing again randomly. And the previously successful t/s steps are not necessarily the ones that fix it the next time. And this is happening like once a day, which is way to much to do a reboot, enter a new shortcut work around. But my other keyboard dictionary items disappear, too. So whenever my shortcuts disappear, so does my keyboard dictionary. And the keyboard dictionary is now syncable to iCloud we are told. Thus, I agree, I bet this iCloud sync is the key to it all.

Juliet Purll • 11 years ago

update: shut off my settings/icloud/documents and data. None of my shortcuts were missing nor duplicated, but I don't have many. Because at this point I'm not sure what I documents and data I need synced to iCloud, I'm not even going to turn it back on. Shortcuts work so far.

roy • 11 years ago

i had same problem with ios6 keyboard shortcuts in my iphone 3Gs. Try this one, open your shortcut, erase shortcut ( don't erase phrase) and retype again, don't forget to save. I hope it works properly

Tom Brady • 11 years ago

worked great for me, hope it lasts

❁victoria❁ • 10 years ago

That just worked for me, too! Thanks so much!

Deborah Moore Saganich • 11 years ago

Rebooting did the trick!! Thanks so much!!

Cardeya Smith • 11 years ago

I was having the same problem. I looked into what keyboard I was using. Try this it worked for me.

Settings > General > Keyboard > Keyboards > The top option (the language you choose to use mine was English ) > U.S. extended

As soon as I did this it started working again. Hope this helps.

Steven • 11 years ago

Thx Cardeya worked for me (in short term at least)

Rafael Damasceno • 11 years ago

This is not a quick fix, but a temporary solution. All of the procedures are inconvenient, even more for people who are relying on tethered jailbreaks. The most annoying thing is that if you do them and it all seems fine, the problem will recur anytime soon.
By the way: this is being discussed on Apple's support communities already, and none of the procedures are guaranteed to work. I use shortcuts really often and now I have none working. I've went through several methods, but almost everyone failed, as the problem is just as described in the post: random. The only way to fix this is waiting for the 5.0.1 or for the jailbreak community to develop a nice tweak that will rest our minds.

Solution • 11 years ago

1.Turned off iCloud documents sharing
2.Deleted all my shortcuts
3.turned iCloud documents sharing
4.all shortcuts are back and works perfectly!!!

bort • 11 years ago

When you say "Deleted all my shortcuts"... did you delete them on all of your iOS devices, or just iPhone?

Nuno Canelas • 11 years ago

Works fine on IOS 6.1 Iphone 3gs

J-Skype • 11 years ago

So yeah, just turn off Documents from iCloud and that's it :P

Edward Palmer • 11 years ago

Fixed it right up in seconds by rebooting. I rely heavily on shortcuts, so this was a life saver!! Thank you !

Kathi Farrell • 11 years ago

Glad I ck'd in here. I was making myself crazy trying to fix them. Apple needs to get on it. Older people w arthritic fingers need their shortcuts!!

Ash the Palestinian • 11 years ago

iPhone 4S:
I can't even see the shortcuts in settings.
Like if I go to shortcuts setting in " General" I write a shortcut and then when I go back I found that its not been saved. I've tried the reboot and resetting my device and resetting keyboard dictionary and sync from iTunes etc its frustrating , please help.

MOHIT CHOPRA • 11 years ago

i have tried every thing even restore but it still does not work..help

Wendy McClendon • 11 years ago

That is do weird. I turned off iCloud Document sync and now it works. I hope it sticks.

sambec • 11 years ago

So glad it's not just me...
I didn't realize how often I used shortcuts until a few days ago. I created a shortcut and they're all working now. I've had this problem twice now and fixed it the first time by turning off/turning the phone back on. But when I tried to turn off/turn back on to fix it again, it did not fix the problem the second time. Sign. C'mon Apple.

Earleen Smith • 11 years ago

Thanks! Reboot worked just great. I was baffled so your post was a great help. I would give this maximum stars, but I can't figure that out, either. LOL

Donna Liu • 11 years ago

I just made one new shortcut and they all worked after that...

admirer_of_you • 11 years ago

I've been having this problem on iPhone 5 since I got it or at least shortly thereafter. I swear w each iteration of iOS the typing gets worse and worse.

I still really enjoy my iPhone. But I can definitely see how Apple is going to start losing market share over the coming years. I don't care to list all the ways, but it just seems to me that the product is getting marginally worse on the software side each year.

Sadoc15@hotmail.com • 11 years ago

Rebooting didnt work for me but when I deleted and re added one short cut all the others worked again. Thanks

Stephan Pivot • 8 years ago

Just to let you know, you have to put the Icloud drive on in case you cannot add any shortcuts that is where the iphone store them now....

momof8 • 9 years ago

When I type the word "no" it auto "corrects" to pecan pie! How can I get rid of this?! Instead of telling my kids "no", they can't go to the party, they think I'm saying go ahead and take a pecan pie with you! AUGH!

kwgtx • 10 years ago

Reboot & create shortcut worked first time. Thanks a Mil!!

Toni Magni • 10 years ago

This is so annoying! I have been dealing with it for the past year now, by typing more words, random words. Then, eventually, after 3-15 words, they magically re-appeared again. Things that did not work for me this time were:

* The above mentioned solution of typing words (most times it works, others it doesn't);
* Disabling/Enabling iCloud Documents;
* Renaming the Keyboard Shortcuts;
* Rebooting;

Caleb Kent Grayson • 10 years ago

I've consitantly found disabling Document sync in iCloud caused my shortcuts to work and enabling it caused them to work. oddly the shortcuts on my MBP quit working too.
annoyed, but not bitter. :)
(need it for my astrology tweets : ☉ ☾ ☿ ♀ ♂ ♃ ♄ ♅ ♆ ♇ ♈ ♉ ☊ ☋ ☌ ☍ △ ℞ )

Jim Szymanski • 10 years ago

The reboot worked great. I don't know why I didn't try this before. With all of the problems with ios6 the reboot should be second nature by now.

Liam • 10 years ago

Quick fix: sometimes just closing the settings task can get it working, double tap home, hold an app then hit the red x on the settings one to close it in the background, open it up and check your shortcut :) you may have to delete it then close settings then remake it

thecooldoc • 11 years ago

i did it by switching off documents and data and the shorctcuts started immediately but when i switched back on the shorcuts stoopped so it is an icloud issue

Jeffrey Pratt • 11 years ago

I found the fastest way next to cycling my i5 with os6 on and off (which didnt work) was simply opening the shortcut up and deleting ONLY THE LAST CHARACTER of the short version then typing it back in. Will hopefully last! =)

Nazreena Gaffoor • 11 years ago

Firstly delete all shortcuts. Then reboot and finally add your shortcuts again. Everything will be back to normal. Just tried and it works.

Carlos Javier Leger Durán • 11 years ago

My case was weird, I did the 2nd and 3rd fixes and apparently didn't work. Rebooted my iPhone (iPhone 5, iOS 6.1 with JB btw) and nothing for a couple of minutes, but later it worked. I'm almost certain it was the reboot, which is a general solution to many bugs (I tried with "respring" twice before finding this post and it didn't work, obviously)

Hope this help and THANKS Sebastien!