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Can I toggle between the standard keyboard and the Emoji keyboard as the input view for a UITextView even if the user doesn't have the Emoji keyboard added as one of their keyboards in Settings?

SeanT
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No, you can't, I'm afraid. The Emoji keyboard is effectively a "language" setting that the user has to make and you cannot influence that.

The only thing you can change is the keyboard type.

You might want to experiment with a custom keyboard view, like PMCustomKeyboard if that feature is really important to you.

I've also found an interesting article that might help you: Customizing the iOS keyboard.

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  • Thanks, I didn't want to hear "no I can't," but that article did provide a lot of insight. – SeanT Feb 10 '14 at 00:47
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    You can by subclassing UITextField. See my answer to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11382753/change-the-keyboard-layout-to-emoji – Dale Jun 26 '17 at 05:55