Only the most experienced iPhone and iPad users remember this classic gun emoji iOS – because at that time iPadOS, the operating system created for the iPad, did not yet exist. One day, overnight, Apple decided to remove this emoji and replaced it with a water gun.

The company, which carries the bitten apple logo, also recently removed family emojis. This is because Unicode Consortium It calls for more skin tone between father, mother, son and daughter to encourage social inclusion. However, this would lead to the creation of over 50,000 different emojis across all possible combinations. In addition to all this, What happened to the gun emoji? Why was it removed and replaced?

The gun emoji has been removed… and won’t be returning

With the release of iOS 10, the pistol gun emoji disappeared and was replaced by a toy gun.. The gun emoji has become part of the history and evolution of iPhone emojis and will likely never return.

Apple wants to make sure “the most popular emojis reflect the diversity of people” around the world. There are millions of people who use Apple emojis in their daily lives. Any small change can have a big impact. on a social level.

It was about a campaign called changing the gun emoji. “disconnect iPhone” It was carried out by the group “New Yorkers Against Gun Violence”. Pressure Apple to disallow gun emoji. Something similar to what happens with the Valencian paella emoji, but of course it has larger social and cultural connotations.

There had been a series of shootings at high schools at the time, and many people were very sensitive about it. Also by removing the gun emoji, Apple will significantly reduce harassment, threats and other dangers in the digital space.

Gun emojis from top tech companies

Besides Apple, other platforms have also chosen to remove the gun emoji from their software.

But it’s not all goodbye, we recently learned that Apple will not be eliminating the clown emoji after some rumors to the contrary due to fake news that went viral.

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