Show Emoji keyboard programatically in iOS 9.0

Question

I have a textfield where i need the user to select an emoji to proceed. How do i trigger the emoji keyboard by default?

I know there is a way to get all keyboards but i am not sure how to select one by default.

NSArray *array = [[NSUserDefaults standardUserDefaults] objectForKey:@"AppleKeyboards"];
NSLog(@"Keyboards: %@", array);
The output of all the installed international keyboards looks as follows:

Keyboards: (
    "en_US@hw=US;sw=QWERTY",
    "zh_Hant-HWR@sw=HWR",
    "emoji@sw=Emoji"
)

I am supporting only iOS 9.0, so i am ok with assuming the user has an emoji keyboard.

Is this possible in iOS 13, or Is there any chance from this answer https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58168017/showing-the-system-emoji-keyboard-by-default-on-ios-13 — Bishow Gurung, Sep 18 '20 at 07:17

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 07 '18 at 08:19

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It can be done by sub-classing UITextField and return the proper mode value for textInputMode.

See this answer: change the keyboard layout to emoji

answered Sep 07 '18 at 08:19

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 10 '16 at 08:10

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it seems that you cannot do this, iOS does not provide any public api to programatically switch to another input method, and emoji keyboard is regarded as a kind of input method.

answered Sep 10 '16 at 08:10

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Show Emoji keyboard programatically in iOS 9.0

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