🪫Low Battery Emoji
Basically, it just means “low battery. ” People use it to let others know their device is running low on power.
The 🪫 emoji is a battery with a crack.
- Unicode
- U+1FAAB
- Released
- 2021
- Shortcode
- :low_battery:
- Skin tones
- No
⚠️ Added in Emoji 14.0. On phones older than iOS 16 / Android 13 it arrives as an empty box — the character exists, the artwork does not.
What does the 🪫 Low Battery 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 power emoji.
Low Battery emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1FAAB. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
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.
Low Battery emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :low_battery:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the low battery, code point U+1FAAB.
How to type the 🪫 Low Battery emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1FAAB when there is no key at all.
Low Battery emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the low battery as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Low Battery emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around low battery 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 low battery 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: Low Battery
Code: U+1FAAB · added 2021
Shortcode: :low_battery:
Basically, it just means “low battery.
Unicode name: Battery
Code: U+1F50B · added 2010
Shortcode: :battery:
Generally, the 🔋 emoji means a battery or low power.
Where the 🪫 Low Battery emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1FAAB 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.
Low Battery was approved as U+1FAAB and shipped in Emoji 14.0 (2021). 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.