The company replaced this emoji with a children’s water gun
Only the most experienced iPhone and iPad users remember the classic gun emoji of iOS – because at that time iPadOS, the operating system created for iPad, didn’t even exist. One day, overnight, Apple decided to remove this emoji and he exchanged it for a water gun.
The company with the bitten apple logo has also removed family emojis more recently. This is because the Unicode Consortium calls for more skin tones between father, mother, son and daughter to promote social inclusion. But this would lead to the creation of over 50,000 different emojis from 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 will not return
With the introduction of iOS 10, the revolver gun emoji disappeared and was replaced by a toy gun.. The gun emoji is now part of the history and evolution of iPhone emojis and will probably never come back.
Apple wants to ensure that “its most popular emojis reflect the diversity of people” from around the world. Millions and millions of people use Apple emojis in their daily lives and Any small change can have a big impact. on the social plan.
The replacement of the gun emoji was linked to a campaign called “Disassemble iPhone” led by the group “New Yorkers Against Gun Violence” which aimed to pressure Apple to stop allowing the use of gun emoji. Something similar to what happened with the Valencian paella emoji but, of course, with greater social and cultural connotations.
And at that time, there had been a series of high school shootings and a lot of people were very sensitive to this issue. Additionally, by removing the gun emoji, Apple would significantly reduce harassment, threats and other dangers in the digital sphere.
Gun emojis from the biggest tech companies
Along with 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 is not going to eliminate the clown emoji after some rumors indicated otherwise due to fake news going viral.
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