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What 📵 means
A white-bordered silhouette of a 📱 Smartphone embedded within a 🚫 Prohibition and a black background, which can be the other way around as well (black silhouette on white background).
The 📵 No Mobile Phones emoji indicates a strict rule or ban on the usage of mobile phones in a particular place. This emoji signifies silence, alert, attention, and a need to stay away from distraction and technology.
How and when to use it
- 📵 could be the perfect interpretation of 'digital detoxing', which means, it can be used as a synecdoche for the entirety of all technological gadgets. Hence, while sharing content on this subject, bring in 📵.
- If you're talking about the importance of real connections, sharing an aesthetic or iconic picture, or even a quote resonating with the same, do use 📵 - "We long for more virtual friends than real ones 📵" or "We're absolutely fine with sharing online than talking offline 📵".
- If you're sharing nature-oriented travel, staycation, vacation, or any such post or repost, where one ditches technology and unites with nature, you can use 📵. Like, "The real challenge is staying a month without your cell 📵".
- Besides, 📵 may indicate a ban on photography too. For example, "Photography is strictly banned at the event 📵" or "Do not record 📵".
Other Names
- 📵 No Mobile Phones Allowed
- 📵 No Phones
- 📵 No Cellphones
- 📵 Digital Detox
- 📵 Ditch Your Phones
- 📵 No Smartphones
- 📵 No Photography
- 📵 No Recording
- 📵 No Mobiles
The lowdown
- Category
- Symbols › warning
- Codepoints
U+1F4F5- Emoji version
- Emoji 1.0
- Shortcodes
:no_mobile_phones:- Keywords
- cell, forbidden, mobile, no, not, phone, phones, prohibited, telephone
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 — 📵 No Mobile Phones or 🥛 Glass of Milk?