Apple apparently used its influence with Unicode to prevent two emoji with guns in them from appearing in the update, according to an earlier report in BuzzFeed. The Unicode 9.0 update ...

Credit: Mashable It's not clear exactly why Apple objected to the emoji but, as BuzzFeed points out, the characters had already faced criticism from gun control ... would likely face most of ...

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 ...

while anal sex can be communicated using the donut emoji. While some meanings may seem like a given — the gun or knife emojis symbolize weapons and the smiley face with x’s over the eyes ...

In real-world cases, emoji have appeared in more than 1,000 legal proceedings in the US since 2010. Symbols such as the knife, gun, crown, and aubergine are increasingly used to communicate ...