iOS 10 - Emoji's not appearing in predictive text

Updated to iOS 10 today. Still playing around with it and trying to figure things out. However one thing that a few friends of mine can do that my iPhone won't is display an emoji in the predictive text section once you enter a word that has an associated emoji.

I've tried disable/enable predictive text, resetting text dictionary and adding and removing keyboards and languages like suggested online. Also tried changing these settings and hard/soft resetting the phone. No dice.

Now I'm SOL cause I wiped my dictionary clean that I've been building up for some time. Back to the auto-correct "duck" if you know what I mean 🙂

A couple colleges at work can get emoji's in predictive text while myself and another person cannot.

This feature does not seem to work anywhere in the phone, iMessage, Notes, Email ... etc.

Anyone else having this issue reading this?

I'm using an iPhone 6S Plus.

Thanks