r/Swiftkey

I got a new phone and signed in to swiftkey on it, but none of my settings or predictions synced to it after signing in. So I went to the old phone to try to force a backup but it just synced over the new settings and predictions from the new phone instead. I've changed phones multiple times since I started using swiftkey over a decade ago and this is the first time I've had this problem.

Is my decade worth of predictions now just gone?

As in the title. How do I select "do not predict" for emojis that have skin color settings attached to them? Nothing seems to work. Long click just opens the menu for choosing the skin tone, but no option to ask for not predicting thie emoji ever again.

It's driving me nuts, especially that recently SwiftKey began predicting completely different emojis to what it used to and I'm trying to make it go back to how it was for me by removing the specific emoji predictions. But these ones with selectable skin tones are annoyingly (seemingly) impossible to make "do not predict".

About once a year I switch from Gboard to Swftkey to see if it has become useable. I've just done my annual check, and while I much prefer its layout, its predictive text function remains atrocious and unusable. How can they have got this so wrong for so long?