set keyboard type to UIKeyboardTypeASCIICapable (txtField.keyboardType=UIKeyboardTypeASCIICapable;)
you can find swift code from below link
- (BOOL)stringContainsEmoji:(NSString *)string { __block BOOL returnValue = NO; [string enumerateSubstringsInRange:NSMakeRange(0, [string length]) options:NSStringEnumerationByComposedCharacterSequences usingBlock: ^(NSString *substring, NSRange substringRange, NSRange enclosingRange, BOOL *stop) { const unichar hs = [substring characterAtIndex:0]; // surrogate pair if (0xd800 <= hs && hs 1) { const unichar ls = [substring characterAtIndex:1]; const int uc = ((hs - 0xd800) * 0x400) + (ls - 0xdc00) + 0x10000; if (0x1d000 <= uc && uc 1) { const unichar ls = [substring characterAtIndex:1]; if (ls == 0x20e3) { returnValue = YES; } } else { // non surrogate if (0x2100 <= hs && hs <= 0x27ff) { returnValue = YES; } else if (0x2B05 <= hs && hs <= 0x2b07) { returnValue = YES; } else if (0x2934 <= hs && hs <= 0x2935) { returnValue = YES; } else if (0x3297 <= hs && hs <= 0x3299) { returnValue = YES; } else if (hs == 0xa9 || hs == 0xae || hs == 0x303d || hs == 0x3030 || hs == 0x2b55 || hs == 0x2b1c || hs == 0x2b1b || hs == 0x2b50) { returnValue = YES; } } }]; return returnValue; } - (BOOL)textField:(UITextField *)textField shouldChangeCharactersInRange:(NSRange)range replacementString:(NSString *)string { if ([appdelegate stringContainsEmoji:string]) { return NO; } if ([textField isFirstResponder]) { if ([[[textField textInputMode] primaryLanguage] isEqualToString:@"emoji"] || ![[textField textInputMode] primaryLanguage]) { return NO; } } return YES; }