Discord Patch Notes: August 4, 2025 (opens in new tab)

Discord’s August 4, 2025 patch focuses on reliability, responsiveness, search, and cross-platform usability. Major updates improve Android keyboard behavior, media downloads, Tumblr embeds, thread search, pinned-message limits, and settings navigation during calls. The release also addresses numerous platform-specific bugs affecting navigation, rendering, notifications, accessibility, and server administration.

Search, Media, and Content Improvements

• Search now includes messages inside threads.
• Thread names can be autocompleted with the in: search filter.
• Embedded images and videos from other platforms download more reliably.
• Downloaded media should no longer produce malformed filenames such as @jpeg.bin.jpg.
• Tumblr links now receive properly formatted embeds, including Tumblr-hosted sites on custom domains.
• The maximum number of pinned messages per channel increased from 50 to 250.

Android and Mobile Usability

• Android keyboard handling was improved, especially when switching between emoji input, the gallery, and the system keyboard.
• Fixed cases where the keyboard covered messages or obscured too much of the interface on Android multitasking and foldable devices.
• iOS received fixes for search crashes, emoji cropping, search-filter suggestions, Friends-list icon padding, and custom-status alignment.
• Back gestures on mobile no longer incorrectly navigate from channel settings all the way back to chat.
• Server Onboarding backgrounds, popups, and state retention were corrected across mobile flows.

Desktop and Apple Platform Integrations

• On desktop, User Settings now opens directly to Voice & Video when the user is in a call.
• macOS Spotlight can now locate Discord channels by channel or server name.
• Apple Handoff lets users move directly to a Discord channel from an iPad, Mac Dock, or iOS app switcher.
• Desktop notifications now navigate correctly to Discord.
• The system tray icon should remain visible after desktop updates.
• Fixed PiP settings appearing behind the picture-in-picture window.

Performance and Reliability

• Discord improved GDM search, direct-message cleanup, and relationship-operation handling for accounts with extremely large amounts of data.
• These changes target severe startup and application slowdowns experienced by heavy-utilization users.
• Numerous crashes, rendering problems, and unreliable interactions were fixed across desktop, Android, and iOS.

Server, Role, and Moderation Fixes

• Roles can now be deleted from the right-click menu in Role Settings.
• Mobile role sorting works again.
• Pending friend requests are visible in desktop user profiles.
• Audit-log entries for Android voice-channel statuses now use the correct icon.
• Server invite dialogs once again show the username being used to accept an invitation.
• Server template names that are too short now produce an informative error.
• Mod View dates now respect the configured date format instead of always using MM/DD/YYYY.
• Server Onboarding dismissal state is preserved when navigating away and returning.

Rendering, Text, and Interface Corrections

• Japanese channel names and Burmese Unicode text now render and transmit correctly.
• Fixed blank reaction emojis, cropped iOS emojis, masked links in mobile event descriptions, and duplicated users in member lists.
• Corrected alignment and padding issues across buttons, role displays, search controls, badges, popups, Clips, and subscription flows.
• Username autocomplete is less aggressive and no longer locks onto the first matching result.
• Discoverable-server globe icons, boosting icons, and official badges are now positioned correctly.
• Student Hub menus, voice-message volume sliders, and invite-permission messaging were repaired or clarified.

Overall, this release is primarily a broad maintenance update. Users with heavy Discord accounts, Android keyboard issues, thread-search needs, or frequent cross-device use should benefit most, while the many smaller fixes improve consistency across Discord’s platforms.