Why has Gboard suddenly lost the ability to search emojis?

[hylen]

Try another keyboard like swiftkey , you have same problem?

I don't think SwiftKey has emoji search anyway? I did install it yesterday out of frustration and it's fine but my copy at least can't search emojis.

 

[hylen]

Oh wait this only message app, sorry thought was keyboard

Yes keyboard, not just the app (I'm using Textra btw).

 

[B. Diddy]

Did you try enrolling in the beta version of Gboard yet?

 

[hylen]

SITREP. I uninstalled the updates again. Didn't fix it. Right now there's no data to get rid of. I tried Force Stop again. Didn't fix it. (I reinstalled the updates.)

I am now a beta tester! No new version yet though.

I do really appreciate the assistance guys. I hope I/we are able to figure out the answer at some point. Certainly puzzling. Thanks again.

 

[B. Diddy]

In this thread, someone reported that removing all keyboard languages except for English worked: https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/7vjop0/gboard_emoji_search_not_working/. Give that a try (if you have multiple languages set, that is).

 

[hylen]

In this thread, someone reported that removing all keyboard languages except for English worked: https://www.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/7vjop0/gboard_emoji_search_not_working/. Give that a try (if you have multiple languages set, that is).

No, just English I'm afraid.

 

[mustang7757]

I don't think SwiftKey has emoji search anyway? I did install it yesterday out of frustration and it's fine but my copy at least can't search emojis.

See yes it does, I switch between SwiftKey, gboard, Samsung