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Record Button Emoji ⏺️

A solid circle, usually red, the universal icon for hitting record on a camera, voice memo, or livestream. It marks the start of capturing something rather than just playing it back, and it turns up constantly in screenshots and tutorials pointing at exactly which button to press, the dot that means it's actually being saved.

What ⏺️ means

A small white circle designed with the background of a faded-blue square. The ⏺️ Record Button indicates the act of recording or being recorded. It can be from an evidential POV or an innocent one, like vocal practice, sending an audio note, or making a hilarious video.

How and when to use it

Pressing the record button has many preludes to it; one such occasion maybe proof or evidence of facts. Hence, if you're sharing a post about a verified incident or texting someone about something you recorded/heard first hand, you can use ⏺️.
Speaking of facts, you could also use ⏺️ while posting or reposting fact-based content. Like, "12 facts about your hair ⏺️" or "Here are some facts that I'd like to get straight before we go out ⏺️".
A fact, in a sense, is concrete, unchangeable. Even while referring to something that's unchangeable/unchanging, you could bring in ⏺️.
⏺️ refers to both audio and video recording. Recorded videos are visuals of the past, mostly, beautiful memories. So, if you're textually reminiscing something or sharing a social media post/repost/story of the same, you can use ⏺️.
Many times, ⏺️ is used decoratively. Although it's not completely right, it's mighty wrong. It strips this poor little thing ⏺️ of its purpose!

Other Names

⏺️ Recording
⏺️ Voice Recording
⏺️ Video Recording
⏺️ Record Button Symbol
⏺️ Record Symbol
⏺️ Record
⏺️ Black Circle For Record

The lowdown

Category: Symbols › av-symbol
Codepoints: U+23FA U+FE0F
Emoji version: Emoji 0.7
Shortcodes: :record_button: GitHub
Keywords: button, circle, record

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.