What does 📶 Antenna Bars mean?
Signal-strength bars rising from short to tall, the mobile reception indicator. People use it to talk about coverage and connection quality: full bars, no signal, painfully slow data in the mountains. It can also mean being “connected” in a social sense, plugged into what is happening. For Wi-Fi networks specifically, 🛜 is the clearer choice.
📶 Antenna Bars is an emoji from the Symbols category (audio & video controls), added in Emoji 0.6 in 2010. People use it in messages about bar, cell, communication, mobile, phone and signal.
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📶 Antenna Bars on Apple, Google, Microsoft & more
The code is the same everywhere, but every company draws its own artwork. This is how Antenna Bars looks on each platform.
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How do I copy and paste the Antenna Bars emoji?
Press the Copy button at the top of this page and 📶 is copied to your clipboard. Then paste it anywhere with Ctrl+V, Cmd+V or a long press on your phone. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can also type the shortcode :signal_strength:.
When was the Antenna Bars emoji added?
📶 Antenna Bars was added in Emoji 0.6, released in 2010. It is supported on all current versions of iOS, Android, Windows and macOS.
Why does 📶 look different on my phone?
Every platform draws its own artwork for Antenna Bars. The underlying code (U+1F4F6) is the same everywhere, so the person you send it to always gets the same emoji, just in their device’s style. Compare the designs in the platform section above.