How to disable iOS 8 emoji keyboard?

Question

Is there any option to stop showing the emoji keyboard in iOS 8? It is not available in numpad and secure text but for email it is there. If it is not possible to disable i

Answer 1

The solution that worked for me :

self.texField.keyboardType = UIKeyboardTypeASCIICapable;

The emoji keyboard won't be available with that KeyboardType.

But it's compulsory to check the kind of every char added in the textField, because the user can copy an emoji from elsewhere then paste it in.

Here is how you could do so :

- (BOOL)textView:(UITextView *)textView shouldChangeTextInRange:(NSRange)range replacementText:(NSString *)text {
     return [text canBeConvertedToEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding];
}

Be warned that, as I read in another post, this might also prevent user from using keyboard with special characters, like the Chinese one.