Apple replaces hand gun emoji with green water gun, includes more gender diverse emoji in iOS 10. Updated: Aug. 02, 2016, 3:46 p.m. ... The new bright green and orange water gun emoji.

Apple will be replacing its hand gun emoji with a green water pistol in the next version of its iPhone and iPad operating system, iOS 10. The move is one of a number of emoji updates due this fall.

From "Flexed Bicep" to "Vulcan Salute," here's an easy breakdown of all the hand emoji meanings. MENU. Tech. ... Emojipedia says that this emoji is supposed to mean “stop” or to high-five someone.

By 2018, Google, Meta, and X had followed suit.The Unicode Consortium later renamed the emoji to "water pistol," The Verge notes.. X didn't elaborate on why it decided to restore the emoji, though ...

All of which is to say: The 3,000-year-old tilde might want to consider rebranding itself as Invisible Man With Twirled Mustache. I t’s easy to dismiss emoji. They are, at first glance, ridiculous.