Gboard Personal Dictonary not working I've scoured the web for answers to this and have yet to find a solution. I have added a few words to the personal dictionary in Gboard settings and they aren't working. Trying to create shortcuts for things like my email address, but when I type the shortcut into Gboard, nothing happens.

I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling Gboard. I'm currently using a Samsung Galaxy S5 and it's on Android 6.0.1, all software is up-to-date. I emptied the Gboard cache. Nothing helps.

Has anyone else had this problem? If so, what did you do to fix it? Thanks. It's been driving me nuts. I am upgrading my phone this week to a Galaxy S8 and maybe that will do the trick.
It would seem that gboard has a hard time with shortcuts containing punctuation. Ampersands and colons did not work for me, but shortcuts without these characters work fine. A little digging on the web would imply that punctuation in shortcuts used to work in previous versions. I'm not sure if this applies to your situation or not, though.

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