How to separate emojis entered (through default keyboard) on textfield

Question

I entered a two emojis in textfield

Answer 1

Update for Swift 4 (Xcode 9)

As of Swift 4 (tested with Xcode 9 beta) a "Emoji ZWJ Sequence" is treated as a single Character as mandated by the Unicode 9 standard:

let str = "                                                                    

                                                        
            

Answer 2

You can use this code example or this pod.

To use it in Swift, import the category into the YourProject_Bridging_Header

#import "NSString+EMOEmoji.h"

Then you can check the range for every emoji in your String:

let example: NSString = "