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.

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.

The black and silver revolver emoji will be superceded by a new green and orange emoji, with a white plastic trigger in September. The water pistol will be one of more than 100 new and updated emojis.

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 ...

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 ...

Apple will be replacing its hand gun emoji with a green water pistol in the next version of its iPhone and iPad operating system, iOS 10. The move is one of a number of emoji updates due this fall.

Shutterstock. Almost nine months after Apple stirred the pro-gun rights hornet’s nest by replacing its gun emoji with a water pistol, Google and many other major tech companies are doing the ...

Originally, every firm showed the emoji as a firearm, except Microsoft, which designed it as a Buck Rogers-style ray gun. In 2016, however, Apple changed it from a firearm to a water pistol.