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 ...

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 ...

Apple has made a powerful gesture in the face of worldwide gun crime by banishing guns from its emoji roster. Apple's gun emoji A green water pistol is the new gun of choice for iOS users, now ...

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 ...

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

Below: Apple’s water gun. Below: Twitter’s water gun. The decision to replace an emoji of a weapon to a child’s toy was seen as a political statement when Apple in 2016 rolled out its own ...

Emoji 5.0 — which is slated to release in June 2017 — includes new smileys, foods, drinks, flags and people. The Unicode Consortium has approved of 69 new emoji.

Earlier this week, Apple made waves with the revelation that in iOS 10, the forthcoming operating system update for iPhones and iPads, the existing revolver emoji would be replaced with a water ...