Why isn't swype storing recently used emojis

[Sueb68]

I have a Galaxy S5 phone with Android 7.0 running. I have the Swype keyboard loaded. My "smiley" button has a "recently used" button that looks like a clock and used to be full. After the recent update, they were wiped clean and they never store there anymore. I have to look for them in their indiv pages every time, now. Any suggestions on what to do?