Give the option so that iOS text replacements have higher priority when autocorrect is on

What would you like?

I’d like to see text replacements from iOS be made the priority over autocorrect, or at least make it an option to do so. Currently, text replacements do not always automatically replace the text as it prioritizes learned and blocked words.

Why it would help?

This would help because I typically use text replacement as a way to mitigate common typos I keep making or as a shortcut for longer words and emojis. The native keyboard always automatically replaces these texts unless I choose otherwise. In EFKey, this feature kind of works backwards. Currently, if EFKey learns the typo or shortcut as a word, it would never automatically do the text replacement as I’d expect, instead only suggesting it, and thus I’d have to manually choose it. Similarly, if you put the typo or the shortcut into blocked words, it would only suggest the proper replacement in the suggestion bar but doesn’t automatically replace them, typically choosing to autocorrect it to some other word or to leave it as is. Text replacement only works correctly if that text is not in either list, but because I type them so often (hence why they’re in the text replacement in the first place), they occur enough times that they’d end up on the learn words list eventually and I’d have to manually go in and delete them like every two days or so. It’d be nice to have an option so that you can tell EFKey to always prioritize the text replacements over its learned words or blocked words or somehow prevent them from becoming learned words.

As a specific example in my usage, I type “ro” as a common typo for “to” and thus have “ro” be replaced to “to” as a rule in my text replacement. When using EFKey, it eventually learns “ro” as a word, even though it is not, and then stops replacing it with “to”, leaving it as is and only have “to” as a suggestion. Then I’d have to manually search for “ro” in my learned words list and delete it every other day. Frustrated with that, I thought that putting it in the blocked words list would help. This only helped with preventing EFKey from learning it as a word, but it still doesn’t do the text replacement, only suggesting it, so the behavior is similar to when it was a learned word. This happens similarly with other texts I use as a shortcut for other words/phrases or emojis.

However, I realize that perhaps some people like it the way it currently is or don’t have a strong opinion about it, which is why I suggest it as being an option rather than a “fix”.