What does 🪫 Low Battery mean?
A battery with only a sliver of red charge left. It is the emoji for being drained: a phone about to die, a body that badly needs sleep, or a social battery that has run completely flat after a long day around people. Introverts love it for politely bowing out of plans. It arrived with Emoji 14.0, so very old devices may not show it. Compare 🔋, which means fully charged.
🪫 Low Battery is an emoji from the Objects category (computers & electronics), added in Emoji 14.0 in 2021. People use it in messages about drained, electronic, energy and power.
Example messages
🪫 Low Battery on Apple, Google, Microsoft & more
The code is the same everywhere, but every company draws its own artwork. This is how Low Battery looks on each platform.
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How do I copy and paste the Low Battery 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 :low_battery:.
When was the Low Battery emoji added?
🪫 Low Battery was added in Emoji 14.0, released in 2021. 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 Low Battery. The underlying code (U+1FAAB) 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.