In 2016, the company redesigned its gun emoji to be less realistic and more toylike; now it presents as a lime-green water pistol. The company also retrofitted its bagel emoji, in 2018, after ...

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.

And there have been plenty of issues, some frivolous, others less so; Apple unilaterally changing the gun emoji from a weapon to a toy water pistol in 2016 was one of the first hot-button issues.

Before every online message was peppered with cute emoticons, ... Apple replaces the gun emoji with a water pistol in 2016 following a series of high-profile shootings in the US.

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The emoji in iOS 10.2 are approaching the uncanny valley, but that’s not going to stop me from slapping them onto every iMessage, tweet, and email until the end of time. The newly released iOS ...