What does 📵 No Mobile Phones mean?
A mobile phone inside a crossed-out circle, the sign you see in cinemas, exam halls and quiet carriages. People use it to announce a digital detox, a phone-free dinner or that they will be unreachable for a while. It is also a polite way to ask guests to put screens away at a wedding or meeting. Compared with 📴, which means a phone is switched off, this one is a rule against phones.
📵 No Mobile Phones is an emoji from the Symbols category (warning signs), added in Emoji 1.0 in 2015. People use it in messages about cell, forbidden, not, phone, prohibited and telephone.
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📵 No Mobile Phones on Apple, Google, Microsoft & more
The code is the same everywhere, but every company draws its own artwork. This is how No Mobile Phones looks on each platform.
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How do I copy and paste the No Mobile Phones 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 :no_mobile_phones:.
When was the No Mobile Phones emoji added?
📵 No Mobile Phones was added in Emoji 1.0, released in 2015. 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 No Mobile Phones. The underlying code (U+1F4F5) 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.