Can I stop predictive typing from suggesting emojis?

I hardly ever use emojis in my messages. Recently, I used one in a text and now predictive typing always recommends emojis for my words.

Is there any way that I can keep predictive typing on, but not have it suggest emojis?

Solution 1:

I've found a workaround in this apple discussions thread from 2016:

go to:

Settings > General > Keyboard > Keyboards > Edit > Delete Emoji.

this will remove emojis from your keyboard, and as somebody commented, will also change the predictions.

and a quote from another person, more recent comment from feb '17:

I have discovered a solution however, install GBoard - Googles keyboard. You can turn of emoji suggestions in settings and it's significantly quicker. Also the glide function works well.