What is Find Your Friends?
Connecting with your friends on Discord just got a whole lot easier! Introducing Find Your Friends - allowing you to discover friends on Discord using your phone contacts!
What does this article cover?
How does Find Your Friends work:
Let’s say Wumpus and Cap are friends and Wumpus has Cap's contact in his phone.
Wumpus and Cap both are on Discord and want to find friends, so BOTH of them will need to opt-in to be discoverable via Find Your Friends.
If Wumpus enables Find Your Friends, Wumpus will then see Cap in a friend discovery list, and have the option to send him a friend request. It will look something like this:
However...
If Wumpus has Cap's contact, but Cap decides not to opt-in to be discoverable via Find Your Friends, Wumpus will not discover him.
NOTE:
- We won't grab any names off of your contact book. We'll give you the option to manually enter your name if you want friends to more easily recognize you, but you can also skip this
How do I set up Find Your Friends?
1. Navigate to your Friends tab by tapping the second button to the left in the Navbar:
Filled friends list (Left), Empty friends list (right)
2. Once you are on the friends list, tap Find your friends or Getting Started. The screen will look different depending on if you already have friends on Discord or not😔.
Filled friends list (Left), Empty friends list (right)
3. Next, you will reach the Permissions screen. Tap the toggle button to enable contacts to add you on Discord. (Tap Learn More for more details)
4. Next you will have to verify your Phone Number. If your phone number is already verified on your Discord account, you may skip this step.
To Verify your Phone Number, enter your phone number and paste the 6 digit confirmation code (XXX-XXX)
5. Once you tap Sync Contacts with a verified phone number, a modal will show up asking for access to your contacts list.
6. Once you press Ok, we will begin syncing your contacts.
7. Once the sync is complete, we will show you the list of your contacts on Discord with Find Your Friends enabled. If none of your contacts are on Discord or have Find Your Friends Disabled, you will have the option to send them an invite.
8. In case your contacts do not recognize you by your Discord Tag, you may change the name your contact will see when you send them an invite on this screen.
How do I change my name?
1. To change the name that shows up in Find Your Friends, navigate to your User Settings tab by tapping the first button to the right in the Navbar (It's the button with your profile picture).
2. Once you are at your User Settings page, tap the Name setting.
3. Update your name and press Next.
How do I disable Find Your Friends?
1. To disable Find Your Friends, navigate to your User Settings tab by tapping the first button to the right in the Navbar (It's the button with your profile picture).
2. Once you are at your User Settings page, navigate to your Privacy & Safety setting.
3. Tap Allow contacts to add me to enable/disable the feature.
Note: Once disabled, your contacts will no longer discover you through the Find Your Friends feature.
Privacy
How does Discord know my contact is using Discord?
After enabling Find Your Friends, Discord periodically syncs phone numbers from your phone to Discord's servers.
These phone numbers are cryptographically hashed. When your contact also enables Find Your Friends, and if you both have agreed to be discoverable, we compare the cryptographically hashed data and detect a match. Contact names are never uploaded, and raw phone numbers are never stored. The names visible in app are manually entered by each user so their friends can recognize them. This process allows us to prevent spam, only matches you to people you know and never to people you block. Disabling Find Your Friends or deleting your Discord account will remove all of your contact data from Discord's servers.
We won't use Find Your Friends data for any other purpose other than helping you find and invite people to Discord.
What happens after I disable Find Your Friends?
Disabling Find Your Friends or deleting your Discord account will remove all of your contact data from Discord's servers.
We won't delete any existing friend recommendations in either direction, but no new recommendations will be created.