🔕
The universal mark for notifications switched off — 🔔 Bell with a thick red line struck through it. It marks a group chat put on do-not-disturb, digital silence rather than actual quiet, and shows up whenever someone's deliberately tuning something out.
What 🔕 means
It's the muted twin of 🔔 Bell — same shape, same shade of gold, just crossed out in red. Use it to explain why a text sat unanswered for six hours: not ignored, just silenced, on purpose.
How and when to use it
- Beginning with the counter indication of 🔕 as opposed to 🔔, the former suggests a block in receiving notifications, essentially unsubscribing to something. Thus, you could use 🔕 in such contexts.
- Examples: "Listen, please do me a favor and stop alerting me with your gossip updates 🔕" or "I unsubscribed to those notifications, dude 🔕 Their emails were starting to hoard in my inbox".
- You could also use 🔕 while giving life lessons! Shocking? Nah. Here's how you could do that - "Why do you keep bothering about it so much? Just ignore and turn off your attention towards negativity 🔕".
- If you want to specify that your phone would be on 'silent' in any format, use 🔕. It could be in your social media status, a text message, or even post captions! For example, "I will not be available for the next 3 hours 🔕" or "I'm usually unavailable for small talk, sorray 🔕".
Other Names
- 🔕 Bell Icon With Red Slash
- 🔕 Unsubscribe
- 🔕 Turned Off Notification
- 🔕 Canceled Notification
- 🔕 Ringer Disabled
- 🔕 Muted Bell
- 🔕 Silent Mode
- 🔕 Bell With Cancellation Stroke
The lowdown
- Category
- Objects › sound
- Codepoints
U+1F515- Emoji version
- Emoji 1.0
- Shortcodes
:no_bell:- Keywords
- bell, forbidden, mute, no, not, prohibited, quiet, silent, slash, sound
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🔕 Bell with Slash or 💑 Couple with Heart?