How to turn off Discord's "[username] updated their status" notification

On Discord, you may sometimes receive a notification saying "[username] updated their status" when another user updates their status message.

This article clearly explains how to turn off notifications for status message updates.

What the "[username] updated their status" notification means

The "[username] updated their status" notification that you may receive from the Discord app is a notification sent when another user's status changes.

In particular, it is sent as a push notification from the app when another user updates their custom status (status message).

At the time of writing, Discord mobile app has a setting to turn off status update notifications, but the desktop client does not have a corresponding setting.

How to turn off the notification

If you want to disable the "[username] updated their status" notification, you can change it from Discord's notification settings.

As mentioned above, at the time of writing the desktop client does not have a corresponding setting, so you can only change it in the mobile app version, and the setting for status update notifications must be changed by the recipient.

In other words, you can configure Discord so that you do not receive notifications when other users update their status, but note that you cannot configure Discord so that status update notifications are not sent to other users.

You can turn off status update notifications by following the steps below.

1. Open the settings in the Discord mobile app

2. Open the [Notifications] settings

3. Turn off [Status notifications]

   

4. Notifications for when a status message is updated will be turned off

Conclusion

The "[username] updated their status" notification on Discord is a notification that you receive when another user updates their status message.

You cannot configure Discord so that status update notifications are not sent to other users, but you can configure Discord so that you do not receive notifications when other users update their status.

At the time of writing, there does not appear to be a corresponding setting in the desktop version of the Discord client, and you can change this setting only in the mobile app.