To turn off where people can see what you’re playing on Discord, you need to disable the “Display current activity as a status message” / “Share your detected activities with others” setting in your Activity Privacy options. This stops Discord from showing your game, app, or Spotify activity as “Now Playing” under your name.

Quick steps (Desktop: Windows, Mac, Linux)

  1. Open Discord.
  2. Click the gear icon (User Settings) next to your username at the bottom-left.
  3. In the left sidebar, scroll to Activity Settings and click Activity Privacy.
  1. Turn off the toggle:
    • Desktop: “Display current activity as a status message”
    • Or newer wording: “Share your detected activities with others”.
  1. Close Settings.

Once this is off, your game and app activity won’t show under your profile or in the “Active Now” area for friends and most server members.

Extra control: hide specific games only

If you want to hide only some games instead of everything:

  1. In User Settings , go to Activity Settings → Registered Games.
  1. You’ll see a list of detected games.
  2. For each game you want to hide, click the eye icon (or visibility toggle) next to it to turn it off.

This keeps the global “activity as status message” toggle on, but hides those specific games.

Per-server privacy (hide activity on some servers only)

To hide activity only on certain servers:

  1. Click the server name at the top-left of the server.
  2. Choose Privacy Settings (or Server Privacy Settings) from the dropdown.
  1. Turn off Activity Status for that server.

Now your activity won’t be visible to members of that server, but may still show on others and in your DMs/friends list depending on your global settings.

Mobile (iOS / Android)

  1. Open the Discord app.
  2. Tap your profile icon or go to You → Settings.
  3. Go to Privacy & Safety (or Data & Privacy on some versions).
  1. Turn off “Display current activity as a status message” or similar “Share activity” / “Use data to personalize my experience” option that mentions showing games you play.

Things that can still show up

Even with activity sharing off:

  • If you join a voice channel , you’ll still appear in the voice channel and may show in the “Active Now” bar for people in that server.
  • Some third-party apps (like EA Desktop , Steam , etc.) can push activity to Discord if your accounts are linked. If you see activity you didn’t expect, check those apps’ settings and unlink Discord if needed.

Once you’ve disabled the main activity toggle and optionally adjusted per-game or per-server settings, people won’t see “Playing [Game]” under your name anymore. Information gathered from public forums or data available on the internet and portrayed here.