Apple will replace its handgun emoji with a water pistol when it releases its iOS 10 operating system later this year. The black and silver revolver emoji will be superceded by a new green and orange ...

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 same. According to The ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CNNMoney) — 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.

One longstanding emoji is about to get a big change. The pistol emoji, which has been around since 2010, is being redesigned with the next version of iOS 10. The change, revealed by Apple Monday, ...

There are lots of changes coming in iOS 10. But among the biggest announced Monday by Apple is the replacement of a pistol emoji with that of a water gun. The emoji announcement came as Apple revealed ...

Apple has replaced the pistol emoji with a green water gun in the latest iOS update, because apparently that’s what will help solve gun violence. I’m unaware of any mass shooter or murderer who ...

It was an odd move. Because of the way emoji works– each emoji is essentially a sticker that an operating system slaps on top of an otherwise unreadable UTF-16 character code–changing the pistol emoji ...

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 ...

Apple has opted to switch out its gun emoji for something a little less risqué. The Cupertino, California giant announced plans to use a squirt gun instead of the gun emoji, the company announced in a ...

The right to bear arms is enshrined in the Constitution, but not in your text messages. As a tech company, Apple doesn’t have an obvious stake in the gun control debate. But a recently announced ...