Objects · Emoji 0.7
🎛️Control Knobs Emoji
Basically, it means someone is talking about audio equipment or controlling sound. It’s often used in conversations about music, podcasts, or anything related to adjusting volume or mixing.
The 🎛️ emoji, often called "Control Knobs," represents a studio mixing console.
- Unicode
- U+1F39B U+FE0F
- Released
- 2014
- Shortcode
- :control_
knobs: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🎛️ Control Knobs emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 3.
People also look for it as control emoji.
02 — Platforms
Control Knobs emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F39B — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your control knobs looks like to the person on the other side.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Control Knobs emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :control_knobs:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the control knobs, code point U+1F39B.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🎛️ Control Knobs emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Control Knobs emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 8. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Microsoft
06 — Combinations
Control Knobs emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around control knobs for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — In conversation
What 🎛️ means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
08 — Apps
What 🎛️ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
10 — Difference
🎛️ vs 🛂 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Control Knobs
Code: U+1F39B U+FE0F · added 2014
Shortcode: :control_knobs:
Basically, it means someone is talking about audio equipment or controlling sound.
Unicode name: Passport Control
Code: U+1F6C2 · added 2015
Shortcode: :passport_control:
Basically, it means “passport control.”
11 — History
Where the 🎛️ Control Knobs emoji came from
It arrived with the 0.7 release of the standard, which dates the control knobs to 2014.
Same character every time — U+1F39B U+FE0F never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Control Knobs was approved as U+1F39B U+FE0F and shipped in Emoji 0.7 (2014). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 🎛️ is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
12 — FAQ