In 2016, Apple decided to swap the gun emoji for the friendlier imagery of the water pistol emoji. Companies like Google , Facebook, Microsoft , and Twitter followed soon after.

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.

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 ...

The black and silver revolver emoji will be superceded by a new green and orange emoji, with a white plastic trigger in September. The water pistol will be one of more than 100 new and updated emojis.

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 ...

CUPERTINO (CBS SF) -- Apple has killed the gun emoji on its new iOS 10 update and replaced it with a toy. The latest operating system for iPhone and iPad users dropped Tuesday, with 70 new emoji ...

Apple is enforcing a little gun control as it rolls out its latest operating system: The revolver emoji will soon be replaced by a water pistol. Apple revealed its new emojis Monday at a news ...

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 ...

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.