LG washing machine symbols
8 symbols that LG shows in its own manual or support pages, each in our own drawing, with the maker’s own name for it next to ours. Tap a symbol for what it does, where makes differ and every source.
Check your manual — models differ. Two LG machines can carry different sets of symbols, and the same drawing can mean different things on different brands; only your model’s manual says exactly what a programme or light does on your machine.
Read this first
LG’s support page covers the lights on its front-load washers and on the WashTower, a washer and dryer built as one stacked unit, and says the control panel “may vary by model”. LG’s cycle status lights draw a T-shirt rather than a tub: standing in water for rinsing, with a spiral for spinning. One icon, a key crossed out in a circle, serves for both the door lock and the control lock. The lint filter, condenser clean and cool down lights belong to the WashTower’s dryer half. LG also says the remaining time shown “is only an estimate”. Every confirmation here comes from LG Canada’s English support page.
The 8 symbols
Rinse
Maker’s name: Rinsing
Shown in:
- LG Canada support — Control panel icons & significations [washer / wash tower], checked 2026-09-28: Cycle status indicator “RINSING: Shows the washer is in the rinsing cycle.” LG draws it as a T-shirt standing in water rather than a tub.
Spin
Maker’s name: Spinning
Shown in:
- LG Canada support — Control panel icons & significations [washer / wash tower], checked 2026-09-28: Cycle status indicator “SPINNING: Means the washer is in the spinning cycle.” LG draws a T-shirt with a spiral beside it.
Door locked
Maker’s name: Door lock indicator
Shown in:
- LG Canada support — Control panel icons & significations [washer / wash tower], checked 2026-09-28: Door lock indicator, drawn as a key crossed out in a circle (LG’s “door lock or control lock icon”): “Door is locked during the cycle for safety.” It stays on until the cycle is paused, stopped or finished; “Do not force door open.”
Clean the filter (fluff, lint)
Maker’s name: Lint filter status indicator
Shown in:
- LG Canada support — Control panel icons & significations [washer / wash tower], checked 2026-09-28: Lint filter status indicator (a square of dots with a tick): appears on WashTowers with dryers, “more common on dryer panel for lint clean reminder”; “Clean dryer lint filter regularly.”
Check the heat exchanger (condenser)
Maker’s name: Condenser clean indicator
Shown in:
- LG Canada support — Control panel icons & significations [washer / wash tower], checked 2026-09-28: Condenser clean indicator (fins with a spray of water beneath): “This icon indicates the condenser auto cleaning status. The icon is displayed when water is being sprayed on the condenser.”
Cooling phase (dryer)
Maker’s name: Cool down
Shown in:
- LG Canada support — Control panel icons & significations [washer / wash tower], checked 2026-09-28: Cycle status indicator on the WashTower dryer: “COOL DOWN: Lights up when the appliance is in the cool down stage.” Drawn as a T-shirt with a swirl of air.
Wi-Fi (connected to the app)
Maker’s name: Wi-Fi indicator
Shown in:
- LG Canada support — Control panel icons & significations [washer / wash tower], checked 2026-09-28: Wi-Fi indicator (a Wi-Fi fan): “Indicates washer is connected to Wi-Fi for ThinQ app control”; “This indicator is lit when the product is connected to a home Wi-Fi network.” Solid means connected, blinking connecting or disconnected.
Remote start
Maker’s name: Remote start indicator
Shown in:
- LG Canada support — Control panel icons & significations [washer / wash tower], checked 2026-09-28: Remote start indicator (a play-and-pause sign in a circle with signal waves): “This indicator lights up when the Remote Start feature is activated”; the washer can then be started via the LG ThinQ app.
LG symbols with no page here
LG’s own page shows these too, but no second maker’s source confirms them yet, so this site has no drawing or page for them. The meaning is the maker’s own wording, quoted:
- AI DD indicator (the letters AI in the outline of a head): “AI Direct Drive detects fabric weight and softness to optimize drum movement.” — LG Canada support — Control panel icons & significations [washer / wash tower]
- Signal indicator: “This indicator lights up when the end-of-cycle and button tones are turned on.” — LG Canada support — Control panel icons & significations [washer / wash tower]
Not listed for LG
The LG sources checked here do not show these symbols from this site, so they are left off this page: Cottons, Eco 40-60, Synthetics, Mixed, Wool, Delicates and silk, Quick wash, Cold wash, Prewash, Soak, Extra rinse, Drain, Iron: easy iron, Intensive, Steam and steam refresh, Drum clean, Child lock, Add garment, Delay start, Hourglass, Timed dry, Cupboard dry, Anti-crease, Empty the water tank, Main wash, Fabric softener. That does not mean no LG machine has them — only that no LG manual or support page cited here shows the symbol. If your machine shows one, see all washing-machine symbols by shape.
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Sources
A symbol is listed here only when one of these LG pages shows it. Each was fetched and read on the date shown; the brand names and quotations are the maker’s wording, everything else is ours.
- LG: LG Canada support — Control panel icons & significations [washer / wash tower] Checked 2026-09-28.