Losing contact faces after deleting solid mesh

Hi

When I create a face from solid and delete solid element to update the mesh, hypermesh (version 13 to 19th) had always kept the contact surfaces (groups) I generated before.  

With version 2022 , when  I take the face and delete solid elements,  all segments (new name for group) are deleted automaticaly. It is very annoying while for a simple update in the mesh, I need to create all contact surfaces again. 

Is there any work around for this issue? I dont have access anymore to version 19, if I had I would not update to v21.