How to resolve missing text replacements in MacBook Pro?

I've always use text replacements ALO T!Q uestion… sometimes (like now) specific shortcuts starting with a specific letter don't seem to populate after putting your special combination. Like currently for me the ones starting with letter "r" are not populating into their words e.g i have "rcm" to become "recommendation" but now it's not working (among others which only start with "r"). Any solution to this please?? It's very frustrating 


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Original Title: text replacements some letter NOT working

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 15.5

Posted on Jul 10, 2025 12:14 AM

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Jul 10, 2025 1:19 PM in response to whphnk



whphnk wrote:

I've always use text replacements ALO T!Q uestion… sometimes (like now) specific shortcuts starting with a specific letter don't seem to populate after putting your special combination. Like currently for me the ones starting with letter "r" are not populating into their words e.g i have "rcm" to become "recommendation" but now it's not working (among others which only start with "r"). Any solution to this please?? It's very frustrating 

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Original Title: text replacements some letter NOT working


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