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 ...

Microsoft has decided to abandon a gun emoji that resembles a realistic looking gun in favor of one that looks more like a toy squirt gun. Microsoft said this week via Twitter that the technology ...

Apple changed its gun emoji in 2016, ... Since 2016 when Apple did away with its pistol in favor of a bright green water gun, more realistic depictions of guns in the emoji world have been fading. ...

The change sees the emoji morph from a realistic gunmetal grey and brown revolver into an orange Super Soaker-style water gun, complete with a large water reservoir on top.

In a move that’ll surely curtail gun violence and bullying — not — Twitter has removed its pistol emoji and replaced it with a playful shamrock green water gun. The change was announced ...

The squirt gun may still look like a pistol, however, to recipients who view the message on a non-Apple device. EMOJIS : The new emojis available this fall with iOS 10. (Photos: Apple) ...

The Twitter emoji, more commonly called Twemoji, were updated to version 2.6 today, the latest update since the minor one introduced in late February. It's a pretty standard update, but there is ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CNNMoney) — 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.

When Apple first added emoji functionality to certain devices with iOS 2.2 in 2008, the U+1F52B pistol emoji appeared as a realistic handgun. As other platforms added emoji functionality, they ...

When the new iOS 10 rolls out this fall, there will no longer be a realistic pistol emoji available. It is being replaced with a green water gun.

Earlier this week Apple introduced new and redesigned emoji as part of iOS 10 developer beta 4 and public beta 3. Among the new emoji are a pride flag, single-parent families, and more emoji featuring ...