How to Share What You’re Playing, Listening to, or Watching as Your Status on Discord (opens in new tab)

Discord utilizes a real-time status feature to let users broadcast their current activities, ranging from gaming on various platforms to streaming media. This functionality fosters community engagement by automatically updating a user's profile based on their active applications and connected services. While the system is designed for visibility, it includes essential privacy controls to manage what information is shared with others.

Multi-Platform Activity Sharing

• Automatic detection and display of PC and console titles currently being played.
• Support for rich presence integrations that show music tracks being listened to or anime episodes being watched.
• Real-time updates that notify the community of a user's current engagement without manual input.

Granular Privacy Management

• Global toggles within the user settings to enable or disable the "Display currently running game as a status message" feature.
• Specific controls to hide individual games or applications from being broadcasted to the profile.
• Customization options to ensure that only preferred activities are visible to friends and server members.

To maintain a balance between social visibility and personal privacy, it is recommended that users periodically review their Activity Privacy settings to ensure they are only broadcasting the specific games or media they want their community to see.