When Apple releases new emojis later this year, fans of the gun emoji are likely to be disappointed - it will be replaced with a green water pistol.

If an iPhone user sends a water gun emoji to an Android phone user, the old revolver will show up, not the green water gun, and vice versa, breaking the conceptual compatibility among devices, ...

In July 2015, the group New Yorkers Against Gun Violence published an open letter to Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook asking the company to symbolically “disarm the iPhone” by getting rid of the ...

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 ...

How ironic is it that the same company that refused to help feds hack into the San Bernardino gunman's iPhone just eliminated its gun emoji ... Apple’s iOS 10 update will remove the gun emoji.

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The “Disarm the iPhone” campaign video begins with the declaration that “with 33,000 American deaths a year, gun violence has become a losing battle” but that “there’s something we can ...

A big change is sweeping the nation or at least your iPhone. Apple announced Monday it will replace its controversial gun emoji with a water gun emoji in its new iOS 10 software update. Last year ...

Well, a number of people are not thrilled they have to use a water gun to show they’re angry, and Fox News wasn’t impressed either. Apple wants to make every #iPhone firearm free by replacing ...

It looks like Apple has truly made a statement about their stance on the whole gun controversy by replacing the pistol emoji with a water gun. With the new iPhone and iPad operating system, iOS 10 ...

Apple’s next iPhone and iPad operating system will no longer feature an emoji picture of a handgun. In its place will be an emoji of a green, plastic squirt gun.

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 ...