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 ...

Apple removed the pistol emoji and replaced it with a bright-green water gun in its newest iOS 10 operating system for iPads and iPhones. The change was part of more than 100 new emoji characters ...

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.

Apple announced Monday that they will be replacing the pistol emoji with a green water gun, among other emoji changes, in the new version of iOS 10, CNN reports. ADVERTISEMENT. The ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — You won’t be seeing the pistol emoji in your keyboard any longer in Apple’s new iOS 10 update scheduled for release this fall. The company announced on Monday it is ...