However, anti-gun violence campaigners support Apple's decision to replace the gun emoji with a water pistol as a step in the right direction. New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, who put pressure on ...

The updated design might seem insignificant, but depicting real guns has real-world ramifications. Flick through your emoji keyboard on almost every platform or device, from Apple to Android, and ...

As for the emoji, let’s stop pretending that Apple has abridged our Second Amendment right to bear arms by eliminating the pistol from its emoji arsenal. Some irate iPhone users went online to ...

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 ...

Shutterstock. Almost nine months after Apple stirred the pro-gun rights hornet’s nest by replacing its gun emoji with a water pistol, Google and many other major tech companies are doing the ...

You no longer have the right to bear emoji arms. Apple removed the pistol emoji and replaced it with a bright-green water gun in its newest iOS 10 operating system for iPads and iPhones. The ...

Microsoft is changing its toy gun emoji to a revolver — the exact opposite of Apple By Matt Weinberger 2016-08-05T16:37:23Z ...

Following the lead of several other big tech companies, including Apple, Samsung, and Twitter, Google has changed the gun emoji on its platform to a water pistol. According to Emojipedia, the ...

Let’s be clear: Exchanging the revolver emoji for a squirt gun in Apple’s new operating system will not solve the problem of gun violence in America. It’s a symbolic gesture. But symbolic ...

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 ...

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 ...