⏪

Fast Reverse Button Emoji ⏪

Two left-pointing triangles with no bar attached, ⏩ Fast-Forward Button's mirror, built for scrubbing backward through whatever's currently playing. Video and podcast apps use it to rewind a scene or a missed line, and it covers the same ground in text, wanting to rewind a conversation or an evening back to before it went wrong.

What ⏪ means

Two ◀️ Reverse Buttons side by side, both pointing the same way. The ⏪ Fast-Reverse Button emoji signifies rewinding. It may suggest a past point in time, a past memory, or even a need to virtually go back in time to a specific moment.

How and when to use it

Since ⏪ suggests a rewind, you could bring this emoji into contexts that are retro by nature. While sharing retro fashion posts, retro makeup, retro themes, anything related to the past (in style), use ⏪.
Much like the ⏩ Fast-Forward Button, ⏪ too is a way of 'skipping' to a specific part, not necessarily 'the best'. Like, "Tell me one good quality about your ex ⏪" or "This was way back in the 2000s ⏪".
Fast reversing is not as exciting as fast-forwarding. In an inexperienced situation where one doesn't know what to expect, ⏪ would indicate returning to an already-lived moment in one way or the other. Thus, symbolizing regression or repression.
Examples for the previous use-case: "WHOA that was a bucket load of repressed memories! ⏪" or "If you want to live forward, you must think and reason backward ⏪Don't regret your past, it's full of wisdom".
You could also use ⏪ while referring to actions under the same umbrella such as, reflecting, re-thinking, thinking twice, repeating, repetitive nature, redoing, reversing, etc.

Other Names

⏪ Rewind Button
⏪ Rewind/Rewinding
⏪ Reverse
⏪ Retro
⏪ Relive
⏪ The Past
⏪ Living in the Past
⏪ Black Left-Pointing Double Triangle

The lowdown

Category: Symbols › av-symbol
Codepoints: U+23EA
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :rewind:
Keywords: arrow, button, double, fast, reverse, rewind

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.