Discord Patch Notes: July 7, 2026 (opens in new tab)
Discord’s July 7, 2026 patch focuses on performance improvements, cross-platform reliability, usability fixes, and bug cleanup. Notable changes include nearly 20% faster typical iOS startup times through React Native’s Fabric architecture, faster session connections, Linux looping-media fixes, silent message forwarding, and channel pinning for all servers. The remaining changes address a wide range of interface, profile, notification, search, and platform-specific issues. ## Performance and Reliability - iOS migration to React Native’s New Architecture, Fabric, produced nearly 20% improvements in typical app initialization times. - A session-start configuration change reduced p95 and p99 connection times by approximately 100 milliseconds. - Linux GIFs and videos now loop correctly after a deep media-stack fix. - Linux no longer gradually leaks X11 connections on NVIDIA systems, which could eventually prevent other applications from opening. - Windows startup now launches Discord quietly in the background instead of stealing focus from games. - Desktop clients no longer stop accepting mouse clicks after two rapid refreshes. ## Messaging and Server Features - Message forwarding now supports `@silent`, allowing users to forward messages without notifying recipients. - Channel Pinning is now available on all servers, rather than only Community-enabled servers. - Invites to servers a user already belongs to now open the server directly instead of incorrectly starting Server Tag Adoption. - Invalid search filters such as `has: hello` are no longer treated as valid filters on Android and iOS. ## Desktop Interface Fixes - Profile cards, custom-status hover bars, and other elements now have corrected corner shapes, positioning, and overflow behavior. - Long searches no longer cause “No results” text to overflow searchable dropdowns. - Small login windows no longer show an unexpected scrollbar or misaligned sign-in box. - Adding widgets while editing a profile no longer discards unsaved changes. - Badge links now close the profile modal before opening Nitro Home or the Shop. - The “24 hours” custom-status expiration now lasts a full 24 hours instead of clearing at midnight. - Spelling suggestions now appear when right-clicking misspelled text in fields such as display names, poll questions, and channel names. - Search filter dates no longer shift forward by a day when reopening the filters modal. - The Inbox keybind no longer locks the client when another modal is open. - Nitro items in a user’s own wishlist now open the subscription modal instead of offering an impossible self-gift. ## iOS Improvements - Channel-list scrolling is smoother and no longer jitters or jumps. - Notification settings correctly recognize already-enabled push notifications without requiring the page to be reopened. - Profile previews now reflect pending display-name style changes. - Scheduled event and Live channel location text truncates correctly within cards. - iPad browser invites now preserve the invite code and display the invite properly in Discord. - Profile-tab scrolling no longer causes content clipping. - Shop item previews no longer make profile text flash and disappear. - Nitro perk descriptions are easier to scroll when system text is enlarged. - Various visual issues were corrected, including theme-colored boxes, unclear channel-list banners, and invisible or overflowing elements. ## Android Improvements - Nitro carousel indicators are now visible across default themes. - Incomplete server-application alerts can be dismissed by tapping outside them or pressing Back. - Profile-picture editor labels and sliders for “Scale” and “Rotate” now appear correctly on affected themes. - Profile Call and Message buttons now render at consistent sizes after accepting a friend request. Overall, the update is primarily a broad maintenance release: users should see faster startup and connections, more consistent media and navigation behavior, and fewer platform-specific interface bugs.