Microsoft changed its gun emoji from a ray gun to a revolver. Here's why. Subscribe ... Windows 10's poop emoji doesn't smile, as Apple's does, because while it may be cute, ...

Earlier this week, Apple made waves with the revelation that in iOS 10, the forthcoming operating system update for iPhones and iPads, the existing revolver emoji would be replaced with a water ...

On July 18, X employee @yacineMTB announced that they had made the change back to the gun emoji on the X website. "Fixed on web, soon to be fixed in rendering on mobile!" Elon Musk said in a reply ...

An X employee tweeted about the change last week, noting that the gun emoji has returned to 'its rightful form' on the X website. It will happen on mobile 'soon,' says Elon Musk.

N ew Yorkers Against Gun Violence has launched a campaign begging Apple to get rid of the gun emoji because that will “show America wants stricter access to real guns” and then fewer people ...

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 ...

In fall, when the new version of its operating system rolls out, what was previously a pistol emoji will be replaced by a green squirt gun. In its announcement about the new set of emojis , Apple ...

I know they mean well, but Apple replacing a gun emoji with a water pistol is pointless. And there's still a bomb emoji. — Mohammed A (@moseywosey) August 2, 2016.

Ironically, Microsoft initially displayed the gun emoji as a toy, but changed it to a revolver in 2016 as part of its emoji redesign project. With Google’s (and Facebook’s) ...

Last week, Apple made a small but significant update to the emoji set used in upcoming iOS 10 and macOS Sierra software updates. The company changed the handgun emoji, first added to the Unicode ...