📲Mobile Phone with Arrow Emoji
Generally, when someone sends you 📲 in a text, they’re letting you know they’re calling or texting you back. It’s a quick way to say “I’m about to message you!
The 📲 emoji is a mobile phone with an arrow pointing upwards.
- Unicode
- U+1F4F2
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :calling:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 📲 Mobile Phone with Arrow emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 9.
Mobile Phone with Arrow emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the mobile phone with arrow has been drawn in 4 ways.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Mobile Phone with Arrow 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 :calling:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F4F2.
How to type the 📲 Mobile Phone with Arrow emoji
No picker to hand? The mobile phone with arrow can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Mobile Phone with Arrow emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Mobile Phone with Arrow emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around mobile phone with arrow for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 📲, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 📲 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 📲 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the mobile phone with arrow lands changes how it is taken.
📲 vs 📱 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Mobile Phone with Arrow
Code: U+1F4F2 · added 2010
Shortcode: :calling:
Generally, when someone sends you 📲 in a text, they’re letting you know they’re calling or texting you back.
Unicode name: Mobile Phone
Code: U+1F4F1 · added 2010
Shortcode: :iphone:
Generally, when someone sends you the 📱 emoji in a text, they’re just reminding you to call them or check their messages.
Where the 📲 Mobile Phone with Arrow emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F4F2 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.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
📲 existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E6CE, KDDI au EB08, SoftBank E104.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Mobile Phone with Arrow was approved as U+1F4F2 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 📲 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.