In an effort to stop promoting gun violence, Apple is replacing its gun emoji with a friendlier-looking water pistol. ... and individuals opening fire in nightclubs and public party events.

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 ...

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.

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 The black and silver revolver emoji will be superceded by a new green and ...

The gun emoji has been replaced with a gentler water pistol instead Credit: @Emojipedia. These new changes are part of Twitter's latest Twemoji 2.6 update. ... an explosion and fire.

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 ...

The World Emoji Day on July 17 marked the eleventh annual global celebration of the event. The subsequent day, July 18, marks the day X (Twitter) decided it was a good idea to revert the water gun ...

According to Emojipedia, a search engine for emojis, Google is rolling out an update to Android users to replace the handgun emoji with a water gun. Google could not be immediately reached for ...

The gun emoji available on Apple's almost-ubiquitous iPhone devices is coming under fire from activist group, New Yorkers Against Gun Violence (NYAGV), Fast Company reports.The group is trying to ...

When Apple users update to iOS 10, the pistol emoji will be gone, and in its place they’ll find a lime green water gun. Where there once was a deadly firearm, there's now a cartoon of one of the ...

The squirt gun emoji change comes alongside “more than 100” other changes to Apple’s emoji, including more options for skin tones, more women in diverse professional roles, ...

Rockets fire their social media editor for trolling Mavericks with gun emoji tweet April 29, 2015 More than 10 years ago Dallas Mavericks’ Dirk Nowitzki goes to the basket against Houston ...