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. But not any longer on X, ...

Facebook, Google and Microsoft are joining other tech giants in ditching their handgun emoji, choosing instead to render it on their platforms as a squirt gun. Microsoft tweeted Wednesday that it was ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. The symbol has been a water gun on most devices for years. The symbol has been a water gun on most devices for ...

An X employee tweeted about the change last week, noting that the gun emoji has returned to 'its rightful form' on the X website. It will happen on mobile 'soon,' says Elon Musk. Six years after ...

Users on Twitter/X have found that after six years, choosing the pistol emoji now shows an image of a gun instead of a water pistol. The existence of any particular emoji is down to the Unicode ...

In 2010, the unicode consortium approved of a new emoji called Pistol. And companies like Apple added it to their platforms. Most of them created realistic designs for the emoji, modeled after ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) – Following an online push for Apple to remove the gun emoji, the tech giant decided to replace the regular gun emoji with a water gun and it’s being met with mixed reactions ...

Turns out Microsoft and Apple are on opposing sides when it comes to the emoji gun control debate. Less than a week after Apple changed its pistol emoji to a water gun, Microsoft is taking a ...