⏩

Fast-forward Button Emoji ⏩

Two right-pointing triangles with no bar attached, the icon for skipping ahead inside whatever's already playing. That missing bar is what separates it from ⏭️ Next Track Button, which jumps to a new track entirely, and outside media controls it stands in for wanting to skip past something slow, a boring stretch, straight to what's next.

What ⏩ means

A pair of overlapping ▶️ Play Buttons in the same direction. The ⏩ Fast-Forward Button emoji is the emoji-version of skipping to the best/main part. It signifies power, favoritism, and a sense of negating the 'build-up' or the context, in other words.

How and when to use it

If you find someone beating around the bush or starting a story from scratch, you could reply with ⏩as a way of saying "Cut to the chase ⏩" or "Ugh. I don't have all year. Now tell me what happened ⏩".
If you're uploading a personal post with a whimsical caption about life in general, you can use ⏩. For instance, "How I wish all of us could just skip to the best part of our lives ⏩".
Speaking of skipping or skips, you may use ⏩ critically. Like, "How do you cherish something you don't value? ⏩" or "If we keep skipping to the best, how do we understand what is the best without context? ⏩".
Apart from the actual function and universal understanding of ⏩, it could be used to interpret speed as well. For example, "Life moves fast when you are on the right track ⏩" or "If you're a biker, then speed is an addiction ⏩".

Other Names

⏩ Fast Forward Button
⏩ Skip Button
⏩ Black Right-Pointing Double Triangle
⏩ Fast Forwarding
⏩ Fast Forward Symbol
⏩ Speed
⏩ Fast
⏩ Quick

The lowdown

Category: Symbols › av-symbol
Codepoints: U+23E9
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :fast_forward:
Keywords: arrow, button, double, fast, fast-forward, forward

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.