Remote start
Remote start is switched on: the programme can be started from the maker’s phone app instead of the start button.
What it is for
Load the laundry and detergent and close the door before you switch it on — LG’s advice is “Load clothes/detergent first, close door, then enable Remote Start via panel.” On Bosch, a short press of the button enables remote start through the Home Connect app; holding it about 3 seconds opens the Home Connect menu.
Makes differ, check your machine’s manual: the same drawing can mean different things on different brands, and only your model’s manual says exactly what a programme does, how hot and how long.
- What it looks like
- Signal waves at the top corner of a start sign: LG puts them beside a play-and-pause sign in a circle, Bosch beside an upright phone.
- Names makers use
- Remote start (Bosch, LG); Home Connect remote start (Bosch)
Where makes differ
Bosch draws a phone with signal waves and LG a play-and-pause circle with waves, but both light it when the machine will accept a start from the app. The plain Wi-Fi fan is a different symbol: it only says the machine is connected.
Often confused with
The machine is connected to your home Wi-Fi network and can be seen and controlled from the maker’s phone app.
Sources
No single published standard defines washing-machine or dryer programme icons, so this meaning is taken from 2 makers’ own guides and manuals, each fetched and read on the date shown:
- Bosch: Bosch Home UK — Washing machine symbols guide — Remote start symbol (a phone with signal waves): “If you briefly press the button, the appliance will be enabled for remote start via the Home Connect app” and “If you press the button for approx. 3 seconds, the Home Connect menu opens.” Checked 2026-09-28.
- LG: LG Canada support — Control panel icons & significations [washer / wash tower] — 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. Checked 2026-09-28.
Written in our own words; quotations are the makers’ wording.