What is a Custom Status?

Do you ever wish you could tell your Discord friends you're busy battling dragons or waiting for your sourdough to rise? Custom status is a feature that lets your creativity rise higher than perfectly proofed bread dough. Share your mood, activity, or a witty one-liner, making your presence as unique as your secret family recipe.

Ready to spice up your Discord profile? Grab your favorite emoji (🍞 anyone?) and let's dive in!

Setting a Custom Status

Desktop/Browser

1. On the desktop or browser app, press your profile icon in the lower-left corner of the app to view your profile menu.

2. Select the Add Status bubble to create a custom status.

Tip: Press the emoji icon to set an emoji to your custom status. With Discord Nitro or Nitro Basic, you can use custom server emojis too!

You can also manage when your custom status clears and what status you would like to set by selecting an option from the Clear After pull-down menu and Status pull-down menu.

3. When your custom status is all set, press Save in the lower-right corner of the Set a custom status menu.

Note: Custom statuses expire after one day by default, but you can configure them to last for shorter or longer periods.

Mobile

1. On the mobile app, long-press your profile icon in the lower-right corner of the app to view your profile menu in Account. You can also tap your profile icon > Add Status.

2. Select Set a custom status to create a custom status.

3. In Edit Status, you can create a custom status and choose from the Status Duration menu to set when your status will automatically clear.

4. Once your custom status is ready, tap Save in the upper-right corner to confirm.

5. This will lead you back to Account where you can also manage your profile status by selecting from the Online Status menu.

Editing or Clearing a Custom Status

Desktop/Browser

1. To edit or clear your custom status on desktop or browser, press on your profile icon in the lower-left corner of your app, and select your custom status.

2. Follow these steps:

To clear your custom status, press the trash icon [] to remove it.
To edit your custom status, press the pencil icon [] to make changes.

Left: Trash icon - Used to clear custom status

Right: Pencil icon - Used to edit custom status

Note: Custom statuses override other activity statuses in a server’s members list and friends list within direct messages (DMs) and group chats. However, activity statuses will still show when viewing a user’s full profile.

Mobile

1. To edit or clear your custom status on mobile, long-press your profile icon in the lower-right corner of your app. You can also tap your profile icon > Edit Status to make edits.

2. Follow these steps:

To clear your custom status, tap the x icon [] to the right of your custom status to remove it.

To edit your custom status, tap your current custom status to make changes.

Left: X icon - Clear custom status

Right: Current custom status - Edit custom status

Reacting and Replying to a Custom Status

Reacting and replying to custom statuses is currently an experimental feature available to a limited number of users.

Reacting on Desktop/Browser

1. To react to a user’s custom status on desktop or browser, select their profile icon to view their profile.

2. You’ll notice a Send Reaction icon [] above their custom status. Press this icon to choose and send a reaction.

3. A Reaction sent bubble will confirm that your reaction has been delivered to the user. The reaction will also appear in a DM with the recipient.