iOS 8.3 contains no less than 300 special emoji characters implemented by the Apple company to show the diversity of people around the world, and through this multitude of new characters those from Cupertino have also implemented a special emoji to commemorate the famous Leonard Nimoy, ceased to exist just a few months ago. For those of you who aren't fans Star Trek, Nimoy is known throughout the world as Mr. Spock, he being appreciated by millions of people from all over the world, who have been paying him homage in various ways recently, and those from Apple took advantage of the launch iOS 8.3 to publish his own tribute.
In this idea, in the image above you can see the special emoji character that represents the Vulcan salute made by Nimoy in so many Star Trek movies, it being inaccessible in the virtual keyboard of iOS, so now I will explain the method by which you will be able to access it from your terminals whenever you want.
- Access from Safari this tweet.
- Copy the emoji character by holding your finger on the screen to its right and moving the selection sliders, then choosing the option Copy, Copy.
- Now navigate to Settings > General > Keyboard > Shortcuts, Settings > General > Keyboard > Shortcuts.
- Now press the + button at the top right of the screen.
- Long press on the field Phrase, until the option appears Easter, Paste, and press it.
- In the field Shortcut, write the word that should generate the introduction of the emoji character when typing.
- Press the button Save, Save.
Whenever you write somewhere the word entered in the Shortcut field, iOS will display an option to replace that word with the emoji character that represents the VUlcan greeting.
