Following the controversial status of guns in the U.S. and the general trend of the past few years, Google seems to be making the move to change the design of its revolver-style emoji into a toy ...

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 ...

The gun emoji on Android will likely soon appear as a bright orange and yellow super soaker lookalike. As first noted by Emojipedia , Google has just swapped the graphics in its open Noto Emoji ...

Android users opting for a gun emoji might notice the gray and brown pistol has morphed into a colorful toy water gun. The update is rolling out to Android users, Emojipedia reported Tuesday.

Previously, when an Android user viewed the water gun emoji posted by an iOS user, it would appear as a pistol and vice versa. As you can imagine, this could have caused all sorts of problems.

Google is changing its pistol emoji to look like a water gun rather than a real revolver. The update, which is rolling out to Android users now, follows soon after Twitter and Samsung made similar ...

According to Emojipedia, the update is rolling out to Android devices now.Apple in 2016 became the first company to swap out its gun emoji for a toy version while Samsung and Twitter both did so ...

Back in 2013, Google had the best gun emoji of them all. Where most other companies chose pathetic standard 6-shooters, Google's gun emoji was a blunderbuss. Yes!

So, it's a super soaker, which is even more toy-like than the other squirt gun alternatives we've seen. You can see below how the Google pistol emoji has changed over the years—my personal ...

With iOS 10 in 2016, Apple switched to a water pistol for its gun emoji. The new design was not widely adopted — if not critiqued — until this year where there’s been a rash of changes on ...

By 2018, most major platforms, including Microsoft, had changed the emoji's appearance to a water gun of some type. The various social pressures and incentives to standardize imagery across ...