What this article covers:

What is Activity Status (Recent Activity)?

When you engage in certain detectable activities (like playing a game or listening to music), Discord can display information about those activities. This includes when and how you engaged, as well as information about the activity. Some examples of the types of activity we show:

Detectable games you’re playing on a computer
Games you’re playing on Xbox or Playstation
Spotify
Crunchyroll
1st and 3rd party Activities on Discord
And more!

Games and activities that support Rich Presence will show even more cool stuff about what’s happening in the activity.

And some activities from other services like Spotify or Crunchyroll require you to connect your account to Discord. You can learn more about these through our connections article here.

How to View Activity Status

Activity can be seen in multiple places within the Discord app.

Within User Profiles

When viewing your User Profile, you will be able to see your Recent Activity history within the last 30 days.

On Global Activity Cards

You can also view activity cards by checking a user’s profile on mobile or in the Friends List on desktop. These cards display the recent activity of friends and people you interact with in your servers.

Note: Activity Cards may appear in the server’s Members List during the Recent Activity experiment. You can learn more about this Members List Recent Activity experiment here.

As a Status Message

While in a server, the activity status may appear as a status in the Members list depending on your settings.

How do I control who sees my activity?

By default in most regions, your current and recent activity can be viewed by your friends or other users who are in the same server as you. You can control this in a few ways.

Global Settings

In your global settings, you can control whether detectable games or applications that support rich presence are shown to others, regardless of whether they’re friends or not.

1. Tap on cogwheel [] next to your Discord username to access your User Settings.

2. Then, select Activity Privacy where you will find your Activity Status settings.

3. Here you can enable or disable your activity status by toggling the following settings:

Share your activity with others: This toggle controls whether or not anyone on Discord can see your activity status.
Share your activity status by default when joining large servers: This toggle allows your activity status to automatically display as a status message in the members list in servers you join.

If enabled, you’ll see a check mark []. If disabled, you’ll see an [] instead.

In certain countries and situations, this setting might be disabled by default for you. You can always change your settings by following the instructions above.

Connections Settings

For any connected accounts that support sharing recent activity or rich presence, you’ll see a toggle to share your activity with others in the Connections menu located within your User Settings > Connections.

You can enable or disable each individual connection.

Game Detection

You can enable or disable individual games from being displayed as activity in the Registered Games menu located within your User Settings > under Activity Settings. Activity will be shared as long as the global setting is also on.

Per-server Control

Note: Activity Status is automatically enabled for servers you join. However, you can adjust this default setting for servers with over 200 members in your Global Settings menu.

If you want to control which servers can see your recent activity, you can disable or enable settings per server.

1. Navigate to the server where you would like to enable or disable the Activity Status settings.

2. Right-click the server’s name or select the dropdown menu.

3. Then, select Privacy Settings. This will give you the option to toggle the Activity Status setting.

Note:
- Members of a disabled server will still be able to see your activity if they’re also friends with you or if they share another server with you where your activity is allowed.
- Although the Activity Status may be turned off for a specific server, you’ll still see the status on your end unless you have it fully disabled.

For the experiment that displays Activity Cards in a server’s Members List, the server-specific privacy settings will not affect the experiment at this time. The activity shown in that experiment features are controlled by global, connection, and game-level controls within Discord.

Recent Activity History

While viewing your User Profile, you can also clear your Game History to clear it from your activity history.

1. Select your User Profile in the lower-left corner of the app to view your User Status menu.

2. Select your profile avatar to view your full profile.

3. While here, press Activity within the profile categories.

4. This will bring you to your activity history where you can select the ellipsis [] to the right of the activity and press Clear Game History.

5. Within Clear Game History press the Clear button in the lower-right corner to remove the activity from your history.