Transferring Gboard learned words + Samsung Gallery

[TheEdge76]

Hello,
I have just upgraded from a Samsung Galaxy XCover 4S to a Samsung Galaxy A41. I'm getting to like my new phone (although it is quite a bit larger to me!)
I had a lot of learned words on my Gboard keyboard/dictionary/whatever it's called on my XCover however they haven't transferred across to my A41. I can't find an option to do this in Gboard on either device.
Is there some "sync" option I'm missing or something?
It's not the end of the world if I can't do it, but it would be nice to be able to transfer it over to my new device.

Also my Samsung Gallery got updated from 11.5.02.6 to the newest version, and the upgrade is not good...previously when looking at an image, it would show the date it was taken plus the location. That's gone now and I get some film-roll-string which looks awful.
Is there any option to change this back, or rollback/downgrade to the earlier version?

Thanks in advance

 

[B. Diddy]

In the Gboard app on the old phone, go to its settings, then Dictionary>Personal Dictionary>English. Are there any words there?

 

[mustang7757]

I never had learned words transferred over on Samsung keyboard or Google but swiftkey I believe did

 

[TheEdge76]

In the Gboard app on the old phone, go to its settings, then Dictionary>Personal Dictionary>English. Are there any words there?

Sadly, no

 

[TheEdge76]

I never had learned words transferred over on Samsung keyboard or Google but swiftkey I believe did

Thanks for that, looks like there's no way then :/ Ah well.

 

[mustang7757]

Thanks for that, looks like there's no way then :/ Ah well.

No sorry
Did you try swiftkey?

 

[B. Diddy]

In your Gboard app's settings, go to the Advanced options. Is Personalization turned on for both the old phone and new phone?

 

[TheEdge76]

No sorry
Did you try swiftkey?

I would have needed to use that from the start though, right?

 

[TheEdge76]

In your Gboard app's settings, go to the Advanced options. Is Personalization turned on for both the old phone and new phone?

Just checked both phones, and yes it's activated on both.

 

[B. Diddy]

Hmm, I'm not quite sure then. It probably works if you did a Google backup of the old phone and then restore it to the new phone, but that might not be possible on older phones. (When I look at the Google Drive backup for my Pixel 3a XL, I see that one of the apps that has backed up data is Gboard, which might include learned words.) It certainly seems to make sense that learned words would be synced to your Google account, but I can't find an option for that either.

 

[mustang7757]

I would have needed to use that from the start though, right?

Correct