Objects · Emoji 0.6
🔐Locked with Key Emoji
Generally, 🔐 means something is private, secure, or needs access. It’s often used to indicate that information is kept safe or that you need a password to get in.
The 🔐 emoji shows a padlock and a key.
- Unicode
- U+1F510
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :closed_
lock_ with_ key: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🔐 Locked with Key emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 6.
02 — Platforms
Locked with Key emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F510 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your locked with key 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
Locked with Key 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 :closed_lock_with_key:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F510.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🔐 Locked with Key emoji
No picker to hand? The locked with key can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
Locked with Key emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the locked with key as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
WhatsApp
06 — Combinations
Locked with Key emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around locked with key 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: Locked with Key
Code: U+1F510 · added 2010
Shortcode: :closed_lock_with_key:
Generally, 🔐 means something is private, secure, or needs access.
Unicode name: Key
Code: U+1F511 · added 2010
Shortcode: :key:
Generally, when someone sends you a 🔑, they mean they have the solution or access to something you need.
11 — History
Where the 🔐 Locked with Key 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+1F510 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 E6D9, KDDI au EAFC.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Locked with Key was approved as U+1F510 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.
12 — FAQ