The mobile phone off emoji is the universal “I’m peacing out from the notification matrix” sign. People drop it before flights, movies, naps, exams, or just a much-needed digital detox—basically anytime you want to say, “Don’t text, I’m busy touching grass.” It also doubles as a boundary-setting power move in chats: send 📴 and you’ve soft-launched Focus Mode, self-care edition. Used ironically, it’s peak meme energy—posting 📴 while still very online is the modern equivalent of announcing you’re leaving the party and then hanging by the snacks for 40 more minutes.
On Apple devices, it appears as a phone glyph with big “OFF” letters on the screen, styled inside a rounded-square tile in Apple’s clean, flat aesthetic; background hues vary by version, but the bold OFF text is the dead giveaway. It’s different from the no mobile phones sign, which slaps a red ban symbol over a handset—📴 is more “powering down,” less “forbidden.” Expect it in captions about screen-free Sundays, pre-flight sign-offs, theater etiquette PSAs, and those late-night “not ignoring you, just off” messages. In flirting and friendships alike, it can be a dramatic mic-drop (“Turning my phone off to focus on you”), or a polite shield against chaos (“Notifications? Not today, Satan”).
Definition
An icon depicting a smartphone in the off position. iEmoji old name: Orange Cellphone Off.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji was part of the proprietary / non-standardized emoji set first introduced by Japanese carriers like Softbank. These emojis became part of the Apple iPhone starting in iOS 2.2 as an unlockable feature on handsets sold in English speaking countries.
In iOS 5 / OSX 10.7, the underlying code that the Apple OS generates for this emoji was changed.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
949 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture
Not created yet
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:mobile_phone_off:
Keywords
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Communication Symbols
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Activities/work/entertainment
Unicode Subcategory
Communication Symbols
Names & Annotations
MOBILE PHONE OFF
Symbol Information
U+1F4F4 proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-83A
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
[ケータイOFF]
KDDI
#394 電源OFF U+EA91 SJIS-F364 JIS-7945
Softbank
#467 #old261 電源OFF U+E251 SJIS-F7F1
Emoji Character Encoding Data
Emoji Code Version
iOS 5 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
📴
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
📴
Decimal HTML Entity
📴
Hexadecimal HTML Entity
📴
Hex Code Point(s)
1f4f4
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F4F4
Decimal Code Point(s)
128244
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x93 0xB4
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 93 B4
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 223 264
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83D 0xDCF4
UTF-16 Hex
d83ddcf4
UTF-16 Dec
55357 56564
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F4F4
UTF-32 Hex
01F4F4
UTF-32 Dec
128244
Python Src
u"\U0001F4F4"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x93\xb4"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83D\uDCF4"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
