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.

Prior to the update, gun-control advocacy group New Yorkers Against Gun Violence had been actively lobbying Apple to remove the gun emoji as a symbolic statement against gun violence. Follow Brett ...

Y ears 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.

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 ...

In this case, Apple is reinterpreting how it will “read” the pistol emoji. Instead of depicting it as a metal revolver, it will show the green toy water pistol.

The pistol emoji is often used in that context by Black Lives Matter supporters and others protesting police shootings, and–yes–on both sides of the gun control debate.

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 gun swap is just one ...

Microsoft has long used a toy gun emoji instead of a pistol in Windows. Google, Samsung, Facebook and Twitter all still use realistic pistol emojis. Apple will release iOS 10 this fall.

Emoji are universal insofar as they share common designations across platforms (U + 1F52B is the water pistol), which are decided by the Unicode Consortium. But it’s up to each platform owner 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.

Heads up, Apple users: the pistol emoji available on Apple devices soon will be no more. Apple said Monday that the pistol emoji will be removed from the keyboard and replaced with a lime green ...