Billionaire Elon Musk today put up a cryptic gun emoji post on his social media platform X, shortly after President Joe Biden spoke on the rising gun violence in the US.

Google changes gun emoji from realistic to water gun, Facebook and Microsoft also plan to change remaining gun designs - GIGAZINEFrom 2013 to 2018, the changes in gun emoji designs on Apple ...

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.

(AP) -- Apple is disarming -- or at least it's dumping an emoji that depicts a realistic-looking revolver and replacing it with a brightly colored toy water pistol instead. The tech giant is ...

Apple’s emoji makeover is uncommon, but not unprecedented. In 2016, the company redesigned its gun emoji to be less realistic and more toylike; now it presents as a lime-green water pistol.

By now, most popular platforms, such as Facebook and the Android operating system, have also changed their gun emoji to a less realistic depiction.

I suspect it’s some combination of both. Regardless, the desire for consistency might be the factor which keeps us from seeing a resurgence of realistic gun emoji in the future.

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.

Originally, it had a funky ray gun emoji instead of the standard revolver. Then, somewhere down the line it decided to swap to the more realistic option, losing a little color and individuality in ...

After Google retired its handgun emoji and replaced it with a friendlier citrus-colored water pistol, Microsoft and Facebook remained the only platforms that still use realistic firearm glyphs ...