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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CUPERTINO, Calif. — Bullets are out, water ...

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, ...

It was an odd move. Because of the way emoji works– each emoji is essentially a sticker that an operating system slaps on top of an otherwise unreadable UTF-16 character code–changing the pistol emoji ...

Karandeep Singh Oberoi is a Durham College Journalism and Mass Media graduate who joined the Android Police team in April 2024, after serving as a full-time News Writer at Canadian publication ...

One longstanding emoji is about to get a big change. The pistol emoji, which has been around since 2010, is being redesigned with the next version of iOS 10. The change, revealed by Apple Monday, ...

SAN FRANCISCO — 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 gun swap ...

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 ...