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Shuffle Tracks Button Emoji 🔀

Two arrows crossed over each other, the media-player icon for shuffle mode, which plays a queue back in random order instead of its listed order. It's the toggle people hit on a playlist so songs stop landing in the same sequence every time, and it's typed loosely for a day or a mood with no fixed plan.

What 🔀 means

A pair of ➡️ Right Arrows beginning at a parallel pace, converging towards and over each other at the middle and continuing in the new directions of each (essentially, they're switching places).

The 🔀 Shuffle Tracks Button emoji represents the 'Shuffle' button in a music player. Also known as 'Shuffle Play', this emoji signifies shuffling, as the name suggests, along with a sense of 'breaking order', being free-flowing, and creating new possibilities with every shuffle.

How and when to use it

When we set our music on shuffle, the flow or the order of tracks changes each time we shuffle. Hence, 🔀 may symbolize a journey of different outcomes (sort of different realities). This means the mere shuffle button may have a multiverse angle to it.
Shuffling music creates newness or an air of being unpredictable (you cannot really predict the next song in a shuffled playlist). For instance, "At it's best, life is completely unpredictable 🔀" or "Love is so unpredictable 🔀. And that's what makes it great".
To shuffle, may also mean to 'change'. If you're referring to something that's constantly changing or someone who cannot remain unchanged, use 🔀. Like, "I long for change 🔀 It's so strange. It hurts but still, I long for it" or "There's nothing permanent except change 🔀".
🔀 could also be used to indicate a 'switch'. For example, "We switched sides and could finally see through each other's eyes 🔀".

Other Names

🔀 Shuffle Play
🔀 Shuffle Button
🔀 Shuffling Music
🔀 Twisted Rightwards Arrows
🔀 Shuffle Tracks Symbol
🔀 Changing Tracks
🔀 Skipping Order
🔀 Shuffle Tracks

The lowdown

Category: Symbols › av-symbol
Codepoints: U+1F500
Emoji version: Emoji 1.0
Shortcodes: :twisted_rightwards_arrows:
Keywords: arrow, button, crossed, shuffle, tracks

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.