Detect if a user has typed an emoji character in UITextView

Question

I have a UITextView and I need to detect if a user enters an emoji character.

I would think that just checking the unicode value of the newest character would suffic

Answer 1

if your do not want your keyboard to show emoji you can use YOURTEXTFIELD/YOURTEXTVIEW.keyboardType = .ASCIICapable
This will show a keyboard with no emoji