🔁Repeat Button Emoji
Generally, it just means "repeat" or "again. " People use it to show they’re referencing something that’s already been said or done.
The 🔁 emoji shows a circular arrow, like a repeat button.
- Unicode
- U+1F501
- Released
- 2015
- Shortcode
- :repeat:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🔁 Repeat Button emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
People also look for it as repeat emoji.
Repeat Button emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the repeat button as 9 vendors ship it.
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.
Repeat Button emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :repeat:.
In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F501.
How to type the 🔁 Repeat Button emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Repeat Button 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
Repeat Button emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around repeat button 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
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What 🔁 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F501, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
🔁 vs 🔂 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Repeat Button
Code: U+1F501 · added 2015
Shortcode: :repeat:
Generally, it just means "repeat" or "again.
Unicode name: Repeat Single Button
Code: U+1F502 · added 2015
Shortcode: :repeat_one:
Generally, 🔂 means “repeat.
Where the 🔁 Repeat Button emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 1.0, the repeat button has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 11.
Same character every time — U+1F501 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.
Repeat Button was approved as U+1F501 and shipped in Emoji 1.0 (2015). 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, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.