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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.

Flick through your emoji keyboard on almost every platform or device, from Apple to Android, and you’ll come across a colorful water pistol among the smiley faces and flags.

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Originally, every firm showed the emoji as a firearm, except Microsoft, which designed it as a Buck Rogers-style ray gun. In 2016, however, Apple changed it from a firearm to a water pistol.

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.

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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 ...

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Pepsi knows being interrupted by ads is annoying. That's why the company's latest ad campaign for its new emoji-clad soda bottles is brief: More than 100 ads that run just five seconds long will ...