Just previous year, an anti-gun violence group even started a campaign targeting Apple to do away with the firearm emoji and it looks like it’s worked.
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The swapping of the revolver for a pistol is only one of two non-gender emojis to get a bit of a refresh.
“[These include] new female athletes and professionals, attractive redesigns of popular emoji, a new rainbow flag and more family options”, it said.
Tech giant Apple has announced on Monday that it will revolutionize its vast “encyclopedia” of emojis with its gender diverse emojis, which will be available to iPad and iPhone iOS 10 users. The new emoji have been available since the June release of Unicode 9.0, though Apple and other companies typically take months to integrated new Unicode releases into their software.
Once sent the symbols will transform into the logo, this can then be copy and pasted from your iPhone into new conversations. There’s also a brand new rainbow flag and more family options like single-parent families.
Apple will release iOS 10 this fall. Not to mention, there is a new set of skin tones; to add to the overhaul of old emojis. A new job-related emoji for female construction workers and private investigators are also added. According to Buzzfeed, an Olympics-inspired rifle was proposed as a possible addition but Unicode Consortium members Apple and Microsoft argued against it.
Have fun with your fake guns while you can, the pistol emoji will be no more this fall.
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Apple doesn’t create emojis; they’re made by the independent Unicode Consortium, which standardizes the way emoji characters are encoded so that they can appear on a series of platforms, including iOS and Android.
