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.

Note: You can access Family Center by selecting this link or by heading into your User Settings within the Discord App.

What this article covers:

How to Connect to a Parent or Guardian
How is Family Center used?
Frequently Asked Questions

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 tap on Family Center.

While here, tap on My Family and then press on Connect with Guardian.

Note: Your parent/guardian will need to download the Discord mobile app and create an account to connect to you in Family Center. If you would like to see how Family Center works for parents/guardians or need any guidance, you can check out this article here.

Connect with Guardian button

While here, you’ll have a QR code that your parent or guardian can scan from their smartphone. After the QR code is scanned, you will receive a connection request from your parent/guardian. If you accept that connection request, you and your parent/guardian will be connected in Family Center and you will see your connected parent or guardian in the Connected Parents section under My Family.

QR code example

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.
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: Teens’ 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.

Note: You will also be able to see this information in the Family Center page in User Settings.

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

Note: Family Center does not show connected parents/guardians what you are sending in a message (server, direct message, or group direct message).

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 guardian and make sure they match the experience you want:

Sensitive content filters: Adjust if the content flagged by our sensitive media filters are blurred, blocked, or shown by default to your teen. Note: For UK, Australian and Brazilian teens, your guardian can only choose between blur and block due to regional restrictions.

Sensitive content filters

Friend Requests: Adjust who can send your teen a friend request (Everyone, friends of friends, Server members)

Friend requests settings

Server Direct Messages: Adjust if server members can send your teen Direct Messages
Message Requests: Adjust if your teen has message requests turned on. Message requests are on by default 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.

Important: Guardians in the UK, Australia and Brazil must be age assured adults (18+) and will be required to age verify before updating their teen's message request setting due to region-specific settings.

Data & Privacy Settings: This includes a suite of data & privacy settings like allowing users to use their data to improve Discord or personalize their Discord experience.
- Use data to improve Discord
- Use teen’s 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 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

Note: The type of report you made and the content you reported will not be shared, just that you made a report. In the email, we encourage your guardian to reach out to you for more details.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Why am I seeing Family Center in parent view although I am a teenager?

A: The view you are seeing is based on the age you have provided when you signed up for Discord. If you are seeing Family Center in parent view, you may have selected an age over 18.

To correct this, please submit an appeal to Discord at dis.gd/request > Appeals, age updates, or other questions > Update my age information.

Q: Do I have to add a parent/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. Connected parents/guardians will only see the following information about:

Recently added friends, including their display names and avatars
Servers joined or participated in, including server names, icons, and member counts
Users messaged or called in direct or group chats, including display names, avatars, and the times of the last message or call

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:

Recently added friends, including their display names and avatars
Servers joined or participated in, including server names, icons, and member counts
Users messaged or called in direct or group chats, including display names, avatars, and the times of the last message or calls

Neither account can choose to share or see only certain types of information

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.