Apart from the potential of it being used as a threat, the pistol emoji became an issue of compatibility, one that could have led to some uncomfortable miscommunication. Previously, when an Android ...

Apple has swapped out an emoji in what the Guardian describes as a reflection of "growing despair in America and worldwide" over gun violence. Starting in September, a neon-green water gun will ...

Almost nine months after Apple stirred the pro-gun rights hornet’s nest by replacing its gun emoji with a water pistol, Google and many other major tech companies are doing the same. According to The ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Bullets are out, water is in. Apple is ...

It has been discovered that Twitter (formerly Twitter) has changed the water gun emoji '🔫' to display an emoji designed to look like a real gun instead of a water gun. Old Twitter followed the lead ...

Bullets are out, water is in. Apple is replacing the controversial pistol emoji with a green water gun in the next version of its iPhone and iPad operating system, iOS 10. The gun swap is just one of ...

Today Google became the latest company to replace its gun emoji with a non-lethal alternative — namely, a water pistol. I’ve been an iOS user for as long as I’ve owned a smartphone, but I admit one ...

Facebook, Google and Microsoft are joining other tech giants in ditching their handgun emoji, choosing instead to render it on their platforms as a squirt gun. Microsoft tweeted Wednesday that it was ...

Apple will be replacing its hand gun emoji with a far less controversial bright green and orange water pistol in the next version of its iPhone and iPad operating system, iOS 10. The move is one of a ...

It appears Google is the latest tech company to replace its gun emoji with a water pistol. According to Emojipedia, a search engine for emojis, Google is rolling out an update to Android users to ...

Apple will replace its handgun emoji with a water pistol when it releases its iOS 10 operating system later this year. The black and silver revolver emoji will be superceded by a new green and orange ...

U.S.-based Microblogging platform Twitter has removed its gun emoji and replaced it with a green water pistol. In an April 12th, 2018 update, Twitter made several aesthetic changes to its set of emoji ...