TextExpander is gone!

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I just updated to v2 and I have to say it is amazing! You did a great job!

That said, both Bear and TextExpander are an integral part of my workflow in iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, and I was very sad to discover my TextExpander snippets no longer work in my iPhone. I searched all the settings in the app and I couldn’t find them anywhere.

I understand TextExpander has its own keyboard, but it is far from being the best experience. Being able to type a snippet in Bear and have it expander automatically was amazing.

I really hope this is just temporal and it eventually comes back.

Keep up the great work! Love Bear!

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Unfortunately TextExpander killed the 3rd party support and now they’re only offering the keyboard as a replacement.

So for as far as we know the integration is not going to be back in Bear in other forms than the keyboard.

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Thanks for the reply!

I swear I did a search and find 0 results before posting, and now I found a thread from March where it is mentioned that the feature may not be implemented because it is an external dependency (and TE is killing the SDK).

As a developer myself I understand this. As a user, I’m sad to see this amazing feature gone.

As I said, keep up the amazing work! Love Bear!

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Other text expander might work well. I use Alfred for snippets and it works flawlessly

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Yup, switched all my expansion needs to Keyboard Maestro and haven’t looked back since.

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I have no problems with macOS. The problem is with iOS and iPadOS.

On the Mac I am a big fan of many automation tools including Alfred and Keyboard Maestro, but I do enjoy the way TexExpander handles the expansions. The big plus of TextExpander was (is if I use their clunky keyboard) being able to use the same expansions on all my devices.