Gboard no longer respects personal dictionary shortcuts?

So I've had a personal dictionary for years now and Google continues to restore this for each new phone I get. I had always found this to be very useful because within the personal dictionary, I had created a few shortcuts. So for example, typing two letters would auto-suggest my whole email address. Or typing "ie" would auto-suggest i.e. However, none of these shortcuts seem to work anymore.

Maybe Google has replaced the use of shortcuts with machine learning instead? I'm not sure — and while the keyboard is fantastic and does have very good auto-suggest and auto-correct, the lack of shortcuts use is really annoying because especially with longer things (like my email address), it was incredibly useful to be able to type two letters to get this. Now it doesn't work.

Anyone else a user of shortcuts via the personal dictionary and seeing the same thing? Maybe there's a setting I have to re-enable? I'm curious what others have experienced.



Submitted November 27, 2017 at 01:16PM by biznotch http://ift.tt/2Bj7apY http://ift.tt/eA8V8J

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