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Phone Booths are an object and gameplay mechanic in Fortnite: Battle Royale. They were introduced in Chapter 2: Season 2.
Functionality[]
Phone Booths can be found in or near locations where Henchmen spawn and are used to alter the player's Outfit to disguise them as AIs. Upon interacting with a Phone Booth, the player enters it, the windows block out, and the player exits with their outfit now altered to that of a Henchman. This process takes a few seconds from start to finish.
Whilst disguised, the player has the ability to perform certain actions:
- Use Scanners to unlock doors and Faction Chests.
- Gain neutrality from Henchmen and Bosses in the area.
- Be undetectable by Sentry Cameras and Sentry Turrets.
The player can lose their disguise if they:
- Re-enter the Phone Booth.
- Damage a Sentry Turret, Henchman, Boss, or player by any means.
- Receive damage by any means.
- Get too close to a Henchman or Boss.
Stalkbox[]
With Fortnitemares 2025, black phone booths with a Ghost Face costume were added to the game. When interacted with, the Stalkbox will grant the Last Call Melee Weapon.
Sounds[]
 Phone Booth Sounds
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| Type | Audio | ID | |
| Enter | Normal | TBD
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| Stinger | TBD
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| Exit | Normal | TBD
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| Stinger A | TBD
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| Stinger B | TBD
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| Galactic Battle Stingers | Galactic Republic | MX_S35_PhoneBooth_LavaTrunk_STNG
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| Galactic Empire | MX_S35_PhoneBooth_LoneFeather_STNG
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| First Order | MX_S35_PhoneBooth_MistyFang_STNG
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| Galactic Empire (Stormtrooper Samurai) | MX_S35_PhoneBooth_RusticMouse_STNG
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History[]
Chapter 2: Season 2[]
Update v12.00[]
- Introduced Phone Booths. They can be found at: The Agency, The Shark, The Yacht, The Grotto, and The Rig.
Update v12.10[]
- SHADOW Henchmen replace the Grotto Henchmen, causing the Booths at The Grotto to change the player into the former.
- Reduced the disguising time from 5 seconds to 3.
Update v12.20[]
- SHADOW Henchmen replace the Rig Henchmen, causing the Booths at The Rig to change the player into the former.
- Pleasant Park now has SHADOW Henchman, and thus a new booth is present.
Update v12.40[]
- GHOST Henchmen replace the Shark Henchmen, causing the Booths at The Shark to change the player into the former.
Chapter 2: Season 3[]
Update v13.00[]
- Removed the previous Phone Booth Locations, new booths can be found at: The Fortilla, The Authority and Catty Corner.
Chapter 2: Season 4[]
Update v14.00[]
- Removed the previous Phone Booth Locations, new booths can be found at Doom's Domain.
- Phone Booths no longer play the spy-themed music while disguising.
Chapter 2: Season 5[]
Update v15.00[]
- Removed the previous Phone Booth Location. There are now no functioning Phone Booths on the Map.
Chapter 2: Season 7[]
Update v17.30[]
- 5 Phone Booths are added into the map. They only serve as a prop in order to complete a quest for the Clark Kent Outfit. They use the same animation as the Phone Booth however.
Chapter 2 Remix[]
Update v32.00[]
- Re-added Phone Booths.
- Phone Booths can be found at The Yacht, The Doggpound, The Rig, Pleasant Park (underneath the soccer field in SHADOW Safe House - Alpha), the Box Factory, near Coral Cove, and GHOST House.
Update v32.10[]
- Spy-themed music while disguising has been re-added.
Chapter 6: Season 1[]
Update v33.00[]
- Removed Phone Booths.
Galactic Battle[]
Update v35.00[]
- Re-added Phone Booths.
- New music has been added for each new faction.
- Changed exiting animation, now having the player character do a helmet equipping motion.
- This also affected the Outfit Booths.
Update v35.20[]
- June 2nd 2025: Disabled.
Chapter 6: Season 3[]
Update v36.00[]
- Removed Phone Booths.
- Reverted exiting animation.
Update v37.50[]
- Added Stalkboxes.
Trivia[]
- Standing in front of a Phone Booth, or Driving a vehicle in front of it whilst another player is inside, will throw the player back, or destroy the vehicle completely. The player who exits the booth will not be hurt.
- A Phone Booth used to be found at Sharky Shell prior to it being unflooded, and was likely an asset from The Shark that was forgotten about until later.
- A similar situation to this happened in Chapter 2 Remix, where two Phone Booths can be found at Box Factory. This is likely due to the location having been turned to Catty Corner in the past, which did contain Booths, and the factory will likely change to Catty Corner again later in the season.
- The Mystique Outfit's Shapeshifter Emote functions very similarly to Phone Booths, which allows the player to turn into other outfits after eliminating any humanoid AI or other players. This effect does not grant the shapeshifter detection immunity from Henchman without properly disguising.
- As a part of The Spire Quests during Chapter 2: Season 6, it was possible to don a disguise by interacting with a briefcase at The Spire. While wearing the disguise, you couldn’t be attacked by Spire Assassin or, later, Glyph Master Raz. The disguise would have disappeared if you had dealt or received damage, or if you had completed the Quest. The option to get a disguise disappeared when the Quest had been completed.
- Their design resembles a Red Telephone Box, a iconic sight on the streets of the United Kingdom.
- Entering a Phone Booth and changing clothing is a reference to Superman, and how he often changes into his costume inside a phone booth, in a comically fast fashion.
- This comes full circle in Chapter 2: Season 7, when the player must do this action as Clark Kent to unlock the Superman Style.
