Text replacements in Apple Mail: Where's the dropdown?

[OldGuyInTheClub]

Hi,

Long time Mac user, first time poster. I set up some text replacements in Settings>Keyboard>Text input>Text replacements. They work as expected on native Mac apps with the exception of Mail. There, the little dropdown box showing the candidate replacement doesn't appear. The text does get replaced on hitting the space bar but I like the little reminder. It works fine on TextEdit, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, and it even works in some 3rd party apps like CotEditor.

Text Replacement is checked under Edit>Substitutions.

Any ideas how to get this to work? (I did report it to Apple with Feedback Assistant a few weeks ago.)

M3 MBP, 38GB RAM. Seen on Sequoia 15.6 and 15.7. Holding off on Tahoe until the first update.

Thanks,

The Old Guy in the Club

 

[BrianBaughn]

Specifically in Mail (Sequoia 15.7) some of my text replacements work as expected…with the dropdown box showing.

I'm not sure what makes some of them NOT work like that. I'm thinking it's a symbol being part of what's in the "Replace" field.

Also, with some of them I'm noticing that some replacements get capitalized when they shouldn't be. This also might depend on what's in the "Replace" field.

 

[OldGuyInTheClub]

Thanks. I currently have only one item in the Text Replacements. (Got rid of the others as part of troubleshooting and none of them had any special characters like accents, emojis, etc.) It is omw replaced with On my way! I think this may be one of the examples that Apple provides.

Interestingly it worked in Firefox which I'm using to send this. Got the dropdown and had to click the 'x' to keep the omw abbreviation from expanding.