How to Let Everyone Know What Game You’re Playing on Discord

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Let your friends see what you’re playing in your Discord status

Written by Stan Kats | Edited by Hannah Dillon

Last Updated: February 9, 2026 Fact Checked

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How to Show Desktop Game Activity

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How to Show Console Game Activity

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Adjusting Activity Sharing Settings

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Other Activities You Can Share

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FAQ

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Do you want to share with your Discord friends and fellow server-mates what game you're playing? You may have noticed other Discord users showing off what game they're currently playing as their Discord status. Thankfully, enabling this setting is super easy! In this article, we'll go over how to make Discord show which game you're playing on desktop and console. We also go over how to adjust your activity sharing settings, what other types of activity you can share, and more.

Quick Steps

Open your Discord settings by clicking on the gear icon.
Click Activity Privacy in the left-hand menu.
Toggle on Share my activity.
Click on Connections in the left-hand menu.
Click on the PlayStation or Xbox icon.
Follow the on-screen steps to connect your console account.
Toggle on Display [console] as your status.

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How to Show Desktop Game Activity

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To do this, click the gear icon in the bottom-left portion of the Discord window. You'll find it in the same bar that shows your Discord name, next to your global mute and deafen buttons.
This button is under the "Activity Settings" header. You'll have to scroll down to find it, as it's near the bottom of the list.

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Toggle on "Share my activity." This will set your current game as your status, and users will see an activity card on your profile when they view it while you're playing a game.^{[1]
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- You can also share what game you're playing on your console. To learn how, move on to the next section.
- To learn how to adjust your Activity Sharing settings, skip to this section below.

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How to Show Console Game Activity

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To do this, click the gear icon in the bottom-left portion of the Discord window. You'll find it in the same bar that shows your Discord name, next to your global mute and deafen buttons.
It's in the left-hand sidebar, near the top. It's under the "User Settings" heading.
You can connect your PlayStation account or Xbox account to your Discord. If you have both, you'll need to repeat these steps to add the other console.
You'll be prompted to sign in to your PlayStation or Xbox account on the respective website.
The PlayStation and/or Xbox site will walk you through the process to connect your console account and Discord account. Once you're done, you will be returned to the Discord connections page.
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Toggle on Display [console] as your status. For PlayStation, it'll say "Display PlayStation Network as your status." For Xbox, it says "Display Xbox as your status."^{[2]
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- If you have either of these toggles selected, your console game will be displayed as your status, even if you have the toggle to share your desktop game status turned off.

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Adjusting Activity Sharing Settings

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To do this, click the gear icon in the bottom-left portion of the Discord window. You'll find it in the same bar that shows your Discord name, next to your global mute and deafen buttons.
This button is under the "Activity Settings" header. You'll have to scroll down to find it, as it's near the bottom of the list.
Under "Servers I share with," you can choose which servers to automatically share your activity status with. You can choose "Do not share," "Share in servers under 200 members," and "Share in all servers." "Share in all servers" is selected by default.
Under the "My Servers" heading, you can toggle on specifically which servers you want to share your activity status in. Toggle on or off servers as you like. You can also click "Toggle All On" to immediately toggle on all servers.
Under "Who can join my games" (under the list of servers, you may have to scroll a bit), you can choose who can join your game without sending a request via your activity status. You can choose to let only friends join your game or any voice channel participants. If both of these options are toggled off, anyone who wants to join your game from your activity status will be required to request it, which you can approve or deny.

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Other Activities You Can Share

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Music you're listening to You can share what music you're listening to as your status if you connect your Spotify account with your Discord account. Here's how to do it:
- Go to Settings > Connections.
- Click on the Spotify icon.
- Follow the on-screen instructions to connect your Spotify and Discord accounts.
- Toggle on "Display Spotify as your status."^{[3]
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Anime you're watching You can share what anime you're watching on Crunchyroll if you connect your Crunchyroll and Discord accounts. Here's how to do it:
- Go to Settings > Connections.
- Click on the Crunchyroll icon.
- Follow the on-screen instructions to connect your Crunchyroll and Discord accounts. Unlike the other methods, simply connecting your accounts will automatically display the anime you're watching on Discord.^{[4]
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FAQ

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Can I show my activity status on mobile? No, you can't turn Activity Sharing on or off in the Discord app. At this time, the Discord app can't detect which mobile game you're playing, and it won't display it in your status.
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Why isn't Discord displaying the game I'm playing? Discord likely isn't detecting your game, either because you're playing a game through a service it doesn't detect as a game (like Bluestacks, an Android emulator) or the game is too new for Discord to detect. You have a few options:
- Wait for Discord to add the game to its library of programs it can detect. This can take an average of a few days.
- Add the game yourself manually. Here's how to do it:
  - Open your Discord settings.
  - Scroll down and click Registered Games under the "Activity Settings" header.
  - Click Add it! under the bar at the top that says "No game detected."
  - Choose an open program on your computer from the dropdown.
  - Click Add Game.