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 ...

Members of the Unicode Consortium, the group overseeing emoji standards across platforms, removed the rifle from the upcoming Unicode 9.0, which includes 72 soon-to-be-released characters, after ...

Both of these gun emojis can be seen in an archived version of Unicode's original list, as it appeared on May 14, but neither rifle nor pentathlon appeared in the Unicode 9.0 emoji chart on the ...

Microsoft has long used a toy gun emoji instead of a pistol in Windows. Google, Samsung, Facebook and Twitter all still use realistic pistol emojis. Apple will release iOS 10 this fall.

NEW YORK — A gun has gone missing, and it might be Apple’s doing. A rifle emoji will not be included in the Unicode 9.0 update coming out June 21. The gun was previously listed as a new emoji ...

Unicode 9.0, which will be out June 21, is one of the most highly anticipated releases in emoji history. Finally you will avail yourself of the need to type out the letters for avocado, bacon ...

If you prefer emoji to actual words, you can now read classic works like “Moby Dick,” the Bible and Shakespeare’s plays – adaptations include “YOLO Juliet” &ndas… ...

Emojis have become a popular form of communication. Image source: Getty Images. While most emojis veer from silly (pirate ghost) to literal (plane taking off), the group responsible for deciding ...

There's an emoji for almost everything now -- from robots to tacos to lollipops -- but the one emoji that recently got the cut: a rifle.

A gun has gone missing, and it might be Apple's doing. A rifle emoji will not be included in the Unicode 9.0 update coming out June 21. The gun was previously listed as a new emoji candidate ...

NEW YORK — A gun has gone missing, and it might be Apple’s doing. A rifle emoji will not be included in the Unicode 9.0 update coming out June 21. The gun was previously listed as a new emoji ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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. NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — A gun has gone ...