Some might argue that emoji aren’t the proper medium for exploring serious social issues, like gun control. That’s a classist position that ignores emoji’s ability to express concepts ...

Prior to the update, gun-control advocacy group New Yorkers Against Gun Violence had been actively lobbying Apple to remove the gun emoji as a symbolic statement against gun violence. Follow Brett ...

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 ...

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 ...

It also increases the likelihood that the gun emoji will, once again, become a symbol of violence and threatening behavior. A Frenchman was jailed for three months in March 2016 after sending his ...

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. Skip ...

The squirt gun emoji change comes alongside "more than 100" other changes to Apple's emoji, including more options for skin tones, more women in diverse professional roles, and more detailed ...

In 2016, a 12-year-old student from Virginia was charged with threatening her school after she had posted on Instagram a gun, bomb, and knife emoji, followed by the words “killing” and “meet ...

In light of a rising incidence of mass shootings, activists took to Twitter to implore Apple to remove the gun emoji altogether. In August 2016, Apple announced a set of new emojis that would be ...