Family Center is an optional tool created to help keep up to three parents or guardians informed about how you use Discord while still maintaining your privacy. As you make connections and join servers, the information provided within the Activity Summary will help you and your connected family members stay on the same page. However, to respect your privacy, the summary will not share the messages you send with connected family members.
What this article covers:
How to Connect to a Parent or Guardian
To connect with a trusted adult family member, head to User Settings located in the bottom-left of the desktop/browser app and then select Account > Family Center.
While here, select My Family and then press either Show Code or Copy Link.
Connect with Guardian Button
While here, you’ll be able to choose between showing a QR code that your parent or guardian can scan from their smartphone or copying an invite link to share with your parent or guardian. After they either scan the QR code or click the invite link, you will receive a connection request from your parent or guardian. If you accept that connection request, you and your parent or guardian will be connected in Family Center and you will see your connected parent or guardian in the Connected Parents section under My Family.
Example of QR Code
After completing setup, your parent or guardian will only be able to see activity that has occurred after being connected to you in Family Center. They will not have access to any activity that occurred before the connection was activated.
How is Family Center Used?
Your Recent Activity
Once you are connected to your parent or guardian in Family Center, they will have access to information around your use of Discord by heading to Family Center > Activity. Your connected parent or guardian will be able to see the following information from the last 7 days:
- New Friends: Your recently added friends, including the display names and avatars of those friends
- Users Messaged & Called: Users you have messaged or called in Direct or Group messages, including their display names and avatars. call.
- Total Call Minutes in Voice & Video: Your total call minutes, including voice and video calls in Direct Messages, Group Messages, and Voice Channels (these support voice and video communication) in servers
- Top Users and Servers: Your top five users and servers in the last week, in order of message and call frequency
- New Servers: Servers you joined or created, including server names, server icons, and server member counts
- Active Servers: Servers where you joined a Voice Channel (these support voice and video communication) or sent a message
- Total Purchases: Your purchases (total amount spent), including Shop purchases and Nitro subscriptions. Nitro subscriptions are shown in the week when they are billed to your account.
- Gifts Received: Gifts you have received, including both claimed and unclaimed gifts. Information on what was gifted, who gifted it, and when. Note: Gifts sent via a link to you will only show up here after you have claimed it.
Family Center > Activity can be accessed at any time. Additionally, connected parents or guardians will receive a weekly update via email containing a high level summary of this view. You will be sent a copy of this email as well.
Example of a Teen’s Weekly Activity Summary
Your Account Settings
If you’re connected to Family Center, certain settings around things like sensitive content, DMs, and privacy are managed by your guardian. These settings are especially important because they shape what you might see on Discord or how people can reach you. That’s why we encourage you to talk about them with your parent or guardian and make sure they match the experience you want:
- Sensitive content filters: Parents or guardians can adjust whether content flagged by our sensitive media filters is blurred or blocked. Your guardian can't choose to 'show' content that's blurred, as part of our additional safety protections for teens, but can switch between 'blur' or 'block'."
Sensitive Content Filters
- Friend Requests: Parents or guardians can adjust who can send you a friend request (everyone, friends of friends, server members)
Friend Requests Settings
- Server Direct Messages: Parents or guardians can adjust if server members can send you Direct Messages
- Message Requests: Parents or guardians can adjust if you have message requests turned on. Message requests are on for teen users. When it’s on, messages from users who aren’t friends with your teen are filtered into a separate “Message Requests” folder. This helps keep unwanted messages out of your teen’s main direct message inbox.
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Data & Privacy Settings: Parents or guardians can adjust a suite of data & privacy settings like allowing users to use their data to improve Discord or personalize their Discord experience.
- Use data to make Discord work
- Use data to improve Discord
- Use data to personalize my Discord experience
- Use my Discord activity to personalize Sponsored Content
- Use third-party data to personalize Sponsored Content
- Use data to make Discord work
Data & Privacy Settings
Note: If you have a linked Family Center account with a guardian, you will not be able to adjust the above settings on your own. We encourage you to talk to your guardian about how to customize these safety settings in a way that supports your experience on Discord.
Check with Guardian Notification
Your Spending Cap
Your guardian has the option to set a monthly spending cap on your account, which doesn't apply to subscriptions (Nitro, Server Boosts, Server Subscriptions, Premium App Subscriptions).
Under the Family Center tab, look for Spending Cap to see your monthly limit.
Teen’s Spending Cap
If a purchase would put you over that cap, you'll see an error message and won't be able to complete the transaction.
Error Message If Over/or at Spending Limit
Your Scheduled Screen Downtime
Your guardian is able to schedule downtime which are specific hours during which you cannot access Discord. Inside of those hours, you'll see a message letting you know that access is currently restricted.
Restricted Hours Message When Logging in Outside of These Hour(s)/Day(s)
For example, your guardian might schedule downtime from 11PM to 9AM and inside of those hours, you won’t be able to access Discord.
To check your downtime scheduled hours, head to the Family Center tab and look for Screen Time Limits under Parental Controls.
Teen’s Screen Time Limits
If you try to log into the Discord app during your downtime hours, you’ll see a message that tells you when you can log in again.
Your Submitted Reports
When you report another user or content to Discord, you will be given the option to notify your guardian that you filed a report. If you choose to notify your guardian, they will be sent an email. This option will only appear for linked accounts.
Example of Submitted Report
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: Why am I seeing Family Center in parent/guardian view although I am a teen?
A: The view you are seeing is based on the age group you are part of. If this is incorrect, you can confirm your age group by following the directions here.
Q: Do I have to add a parent or guardian? What if I wanted to add someone else?
A: You can connect to any trusted adult family member in Family Center. Whether that person is an older brother, sister, aunt, grandparent, or other guardian, you two can connect your Discord accounts and use Family Center.
Q: How many parents/guardians can list me as their teen?
A: Teens may connect to up to 3 parents/guardians.
Q: Can I revoke connections at any time?
A: Yes, both you and any connected family members can choose to disconnect from each other in Family Center at any time. This can be done by heading to “My Family” and tapping X on the account you wish to remove.
Q: Can my parents/ guardians remove me from servers/DMs/GDMs? (General question around scope of function)
A: No, Family Center does not allow a connected parent/guardian to remove their teen from the servers, DMs, and GDMs that their Discord account is in.
Q: What kind of information will my parent/guardian be able to see?
A: We value your privacy which is why Family Center will not share the contents of your messages with your connected parent/guardian.
If at any time you are curious about what your connected family members are able to see, you can always see the same information they do by going into Family Center.
Q: Can I control what kind of information my parent/guardian sees?
A: For transparency, both connected parents/guardians and their teens will see the same information in Family Center. Connected parents/guardians will only see information about what is listed above.
Q: Can other people see who my parent/guardian is?
A: Only you and your parent/guardian can see which accounts are connected to you via Family Center. When you connect to a new parent/guardian in Family Center, existing connected family members will receive a notification highlighting that someone new has connected to you in Family Center.
Q: My parent/guardian made me enable this - do I have to keep it enabled?
A: You can choose to disconnect from any account in Family Center at any time. If you disconnect from an account in Family Center, they will automatically be notified via email.
Q: Can I change or remove my parent/guardian at any time?
A: You can always choose to disconnect from any account in Family Center. If you disconnect from an account in Family Center, they will automatically be notified via email.
Q: Will enabling this impact my Discord Developer account/access? Will my parents/guardians see my active apps?
A: No, your Discord Developer account will not be impacted in any way. At this time Family Center does not provide information on your active apps.
Q: Can I check my own age group status?
A: Yes. You can check your age group status anytime in User Settings > Account Status. If you think it's wrong, you can confirm your age group there too. Learn more about how to confirm your age group here.