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 The black and silver revolver emoji will be superceded by a new green and orange ...

Flick through your emoji keyboard on almost every platform or device, from Apple to Android, and you’ll come across a colorful water pistol among the smiley faces and flags. But not any longer on X, ...

CUPERTINO (CBS SF) -- Apple has killed the gun emoji on its new iOS 10 update and replaced it with a toy. The latest operating system for iPhone and iPad users dropped Tuesday, with 70 new emoji icons ...

Users on Twitter/X have found that after six years, choosing the pistol emoji now shows an image of a gun instead of a water pistol. The existence of any particular emoji is down to the Unicode ...

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 ...

PHILADELPHIA (CNN) -- 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 ...

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Apple announced Monday that they will be replacing the pistol emoji with a green water gun, among other emoji changes, in the new version of iOS 10, CNN reports. The pistol emoji has become ...