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.

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 ...

On July 18, X employee @yacineMTB announced that they had made the change back to the gun emoji on the X website. "Fixed on web, soon to be fixed in rendering on mobile!" Elon Musk said in a reply ...

I know they mean well, but Apple replacing a gun emoji with a water pistol is pointless. And there's still a bomb emoji. — Mohammed A (@moseywosey) August 2, 2016.

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.

Years after Twitter replaced the pistol emoji with a green and orange water gun, X has decided to change it back to a regular handgun. An X employee announced the change in a post last week.

Apple has swapped out an emoji in what the Guardian describes as a reflection of "growing despair in America and worldwide" over gun violence. Starting in September, a neon-green water gun will ...

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 ...

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.

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 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, and more detailed ...

Apple is enforcing a little gun control as it rolls out its latest operating system: The revolver emoji will soon be replaced by a water pistol. Apple revealed its new emojis Monday at a news ...