Reverse Button ◀️

The reverse button is a single triangle pointing left, the mirror image of the play button. It's rendered in the same clean, dark style as its rightward-pointing counterpart, maintaining visual consistency across media control symbols.

Literally, it means rewind or play backwards through media—useful when you want to go back and listen to what someone said in an audio file, or rewatch a scene in a video. In conversations, people use it to suggest going backwards through a process, reconsidering a decision, or literally "rewinding" a conversation to clarify something that was missed. It's the emoji version of "wait, let me go back."

Figuratively, the reverse button can mean undoing something, changing direction, or retracting a statement. In gaming or sports contexts, fans might use it when a referee makes a bad call (implying the decision should be reversed). It's also crept into Gen Z slang where people use it to express that they need to backtrack on what they just said.

Designs remain consistent across platforms, maintaining clear visual distinction from the play button. Approved as part of Unicode Emoji 0.6 in 2010, the reverse button has been a foundational symbol in digital media controls, representing the universal human need to go backwards through time, even if just through a song or video.