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 ...

One longstanding emoji is about to get a big change. The pistol emoji, which has been around since 2010, is being redesigned with the next version of iOS 10. The change, revealed by Apple Monday ...

Most of them created realistic designs for the emoji, modeled after real-life pistols. While Microsoft’s looked more like a ray gun from a science fiction movie. But in iOS 10, Apple was the ...