How to Type Phone Symbols with Keyboard?

In this digital world, we all use phones for different purposes. Do you ever wonder how to type different phone symbols with keyboard? Fortunately, it is very easy to type telephone, mobile phone and related symbols using alt code keyboard shortcuts. In addition, you can use emoji keyboard to type phone emoji symbols.

Type Phone Symbols

The phone symbols list contains both emoji and regular Unicode symbols. You can use different methods to insert these symbols in Windows, Mac, web documents and smartphones.

Inserting in Windows Computers

Below is the complete list of alt code shortcuts to insert phone symbols in Windows computers.

• You can hold one of the alt keys and type the numbers using number pad on your keyboard. For example, alt + 128241 will make the mobile phone emoji symbol like 📱.
• On Word documents, you can type the code as given in the last column of the table then press alt and x keys. For example, 260E and alt + X will make telephone emoji symbol like ☎.

Using Emoji Keyboard in Windows 10

You can use the emoji panel in Windows 10 based computers to insert telephone emoji symbols.

• Place the cursor where you want to insert the symbol.
• Press “Win Logo + ;” or “Win Logo + .” keys.
• This will open emoji panel.
• Type “phone” to filter all phone related emojis symbols.
• Click on the symbol to insert on your document.

Remember, emoji panel will only show emoji symbols from the above list and not other phone symbols.

Insert Phone Symbols in Mac

Mac supports only four digits hexadecimal code with alt or option key. Therefore, you can type the following four phone symbols using keyboard shortcuts. Remember, you have to switch Unicode Hex Input method for these shortcuts to work.

For the remaining symbols including emoji, you have to use Character Viewer app.

• Place the cursor where you want to insert phone symbol.
• Press “Command + Control + Space” keys or go to “Edit > Emoji & Symbols” option from the menu.
• This will open Character Viewer app.
• Type “phone” in the search box to filter relevant symbols.
• Double click on the symbol to insert on your document.
• For some symbols, Mac offers font variations. You can preview the variant and select from the list on the sidebar.

Type Phone Symbols in Smartphone

Whether you are using Android or iOS smartphone or tablets, you can use the emoji keyboard to insert phone emoji symbols. For example, tap on the globe icon in iPhone keyboard to switch to emoji input. You can find phone symbols under object category by tapping the bulb like icon. Once you find the symbol, tap on it to insert in the text.

Insert Phone Symbols in HTML and CSS

You can also easily insert phone symbols in HTML and CSS web documents. Below are code examples for HTML and CSS, you can replace the decimal or hexadecimal code to insert corresponding symbol.

<span>&#128222;<span>
<span>&#x1F4DE;</span>

li:before {
content:\1F4F1;
}

Symbol Variations

Phone emoji symbols are displayed as a solid pictogram, hence you can’t customize the emoji. However, you can apply color and change the background for other line diagram symbols.

Image Reference

You can right click on the below image and download to your computer, if you want to keep an offline reference for the shortcuts.

Note: Not all phone symbols are not supported in all platforms. For example, you will see a box instead of symbol in Mac for some symbols like right hand telephone receiver.