Symbols · Emoji 0.6
📴Mobile Phone Off Emoji
Generally, the 📴 emoji means your phone is off or in airplane mode – you’re unavailable. It’s a quick way to signal you’re not responding to messages.
The 📴 emoji is a little paper airplane.
- Unicode
- U+1F4F4
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :mobile_
phone_ off: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 📴 Mobile Phone Off emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 5.
02 — Platforms
Mobile Phone Off emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the mobile phone off as 9 vendors ship it.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Mobile Phone Off emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :mobile_phone_off:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F4F4.
04 — How to type
How to type the 📴 Mobile Phone Off emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Mobile Phone Off 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.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
06 — Combinations
Mobile Phone Off emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around mobile phone off 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 with 📴, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
08 — In conversation
What 📴 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
09 — 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.
11 — Difference
📴 vs 🚗 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Mobile Phone Off
Code: U+1F4F4 · added 2010
Shortcode: :mobile_phone_off:
Generally, the 📴 emoji means your phone is off or in airplane mode – you’re unavailable.
Unicode name: Automobile
Code: U+1F697 · added 2010
Shortcode: :car:
Generally, when someone sends you the 🚗 emoji, they’re just saying they’re going to drive or that they like cars.
12 — History
Where the 📴 Mobile Phone Off 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+1F4F4 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
KDDI au EA91, SoftBank E251.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Mobile Phone Off was approved as U+1F4F4 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.
13 — FAQ