The camera with flash emoji is the digital equivalent of hearing a hundred shutters go chik-chik in a paparazzi scrum. It signals “photo op,” “new pics just dropped,” or a dramatic “receipts were obtained” when you’re exposing the tea. People toss it into glam posts, concert dumps, outfit reveals, and throwback threads to give everything red-carpet energy. It also works flirtatiously—complimenting someone’s look like they just got blinded by your admiration—and sarcastically when someone’s using flash in the most inappropriate lighting ever.
On Apple/iOS, it’s a metallic silver point-and-shoot seen from a slight front angle, with a cool blue‑purple lens gleam and a bright yellow starburst popping from the top corner to show the flash firing. The compact body, chunky shutter area, and glossy reflections make it feel like a tidy little digicam straight out of the Y2K era. That unmistakable flash burst is the visual hook, so even at tiny sizes you read it as “picture taken right now.” Culturally, it taps into disposable-camera weddings, mid-2000s tabloid culture, and the current digicam revival that makes your timeline look like a MySpace gallery. Use it to hype announcements, mark before/after pics, or to jokingly “document” a friend’s chaotic behavior—caught on camera, bestie. When you need to say say cheese, but with main-character lighting, this emoji does the job.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 162 of 2393 |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | :camera_flash: |
| Keywords |
| Unicode Category | Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs |
| Unicode Range | 1F300–1F5FF |
| Unicode Subcategory | Gesture Symbols |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - 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) | 1f4f8 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F4F8 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128248 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x93 0xB8 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 93 B8 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 223 270 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDCF8 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddcf8 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56568 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F4F8 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F4F8 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128248 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F4F8" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x93\xb8" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDCF8" |
