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 ...

And you thought the #RIPHarambe meme was mercifully over? Well, ... Apple ditches gun emoji in next iOS release. 02:24 . Story highlights. A gorilla emoji is part of Apple's latest emoji update.

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.

The World Emoji Day on July 17 marked the eleventh annual global celebration of the event. The subsequent day, July 18, marks the day X (Twitter) decided it was a good idea to revert the water gun ...

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.

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 ...

Twitter has now followed Apple’s lead in changing its pistol emoji to a harmless, bright green water gun. And in doing so, the company that has struggled to handle the abuse, ...

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.

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 ...

The “B” emoji has become so prevalent a part of internet culture that a major meme forum recently voted on whether to ban it altogether. There were 20,000 votes cast in the poll on Reddit’s ...

X changed its water pistol emoji to a normal firearm, six years after Twitter decided to follow the lead of other companies and get rid of its gun emoji. X does a mild controversy once again.