What does ⏯️ Play or Pause Button mean?
A play triangle combined with pause bars, the single toggle button found on many remotes and keyboards. It suits situations that are on and off: a series you keep starting and stopping, a project on hold, or a relationship that keeps resuming. It can also simply ask someone to hit play or pause. It is more ambiguous than ▶️ or ⏸️ on their own.
⏯️ Play or Pause Button is an emoji from the Symbols category (audio & video controls), added in Emoji 1.0 in 2015. People use it in messages about arrow, right and triangle.
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⏯️ Play or Pause Button on Apple, Google, Microsoft & more
The code is the same everywhere, but every company draws its own artwork. This is how Play or Pause Button looks on each platform.
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How do I copy and paste the Play or Pause Button 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 :black_right_pointing_triangle_with_double_vertical_bar:.
When was the Play or Pause Button emoji added?
⏯️ Play or Pause Button 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 Play or Pause Button. The underlying code (U+23EF U+FE0F) 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.