iOS Email Keyboard has Emoji button, can this be disabled?

Question

When setting the keyboard in IB or programatically as below for a UITextField.

[textFieldOutlet setKeyboardType:UIKeyboardTypeEmailAddress];

The keyboard has an Emoji icon which means you can type in Emoji's in an email address (which is a bit rubbish). Can this be disabled? I understand I can change the type to ASCIICapable but then I do not have the easy access to @ and . signs.

I have worked around it with this which just stops the Emoji being entered but the button is still there (Credit Here with MeganZhou answer).

- (BOOL)textField:(UITextField *)textField shouldChangeCharactersInRange:(NSRange)range replacementString:(NSString *)string
{
    if ([textField isFirstResponder])
    {
        if ([[[textField textInputMode] primaryLanguage] isEqualToString:@"emoji"] || ![[textField textInputMode] primaryLanguage])
        {
            return NO;
        }
    }

    return YES;
}

I have also noted that the icon is there when you are typing an email address in Mail too.

This is iOS8 but may also be in earlier version.

I agree with the concept here, why would a keyboard identify as email input type, still support emoji? Kinda defeats the purpose of an email specific keyboard type imo. — Aaron Smentkowski, Oct 25 '19 at 17:23

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 26 '15 at 11:55

User have to follow below steps if he wants to get rid of emoji button.

Settings---> General ---> keyboard-----> Keyboards---> You'll see ENGLISH and EMOJI.
On the top right corner is the word EDIT.
Press EDIT, and then swipe delete to remove the EMOJI keyboard.

This will remove the emoji button and user can also have easy access to @ and . signs.

Note:- For security reasons, iOS does not allow programmers to remove keyboard programatically.

iOS Email Keyboard has Emoji button, can this be disabled?

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