Twitter has now followed Apple’s lead in changing its pistol emoji to a harmless, bright green water gun. ... But Apple and Samsung perhaps hold more weight when it comes to where things are headed.

Twitter has announced a number of changes in its Twemoji 2.5 update. Perhaps, most significantly, following the lead of several companies including Apple, WhatsApp, and Samsung, the pistol will ...

Microsoft is changing its toy gun emoji to a revolver — the exact opposite of Apple By Matt Weinberger 2016-08-05T16:37:23Z ...

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 ...

In fall, when the new version of its operating system rolls out, what was previously a pistol emoji will be replaced by a green squirt gun. In its announcement about the new set of emojis , Apple ...

On July 18, X employee @yacineMTB announced that they had made the change back to the gun emoji on the X website. "Fixed on web, soon to be fixed in rendering on mobile!" Elon Musk said in a reply ...

Apple has historically been a bit conservative about the more violent emoji—for quite a while, the gun, knife, and a few others were excluded from the macOS emoji picker even though the OS could ...

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.

When Apple users update to iOS 10, the pistol emoji will be gone, and in its place they’ll find a lime green water gun. Where there once was a deadly firearm, there's now a cartoon of one of the ...

According to Emojipedia, a search engine for emojis, Google is rolling out an update to Android users to replace the handgun emoji with a water gun. Google could not be immediately reached for ...

The new version of the gun is one of more than 100 new and redesigned emoji characters that will be available in iOS 10. The change appears to be a reflection of Apple's stance against gun violence.

Years 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.