---
title: "Discord API Custom Status Hidden by Profile Privacy Settings: 2026-09-17 | Harbyn"
description: "Discord API Custom Status Hidden by Profile Privacy Settings, announced Sep 17, 2026."
canonical: "https://harbyn.com/changes/discord/2026-09-17-custom-status-hidden-by-profile-privacy-settings"
last-updated: 2026-09-29
---

# Discord API Custom Status Hidden by Profile Privacy Settings

Markdown version of <https://harbyn.com/changes/discord/2026-09-17-custom-status-hidden-by-profile-privacy-settings>.

Behavior change - Discord API. low severity. In effect.

Presence Update events dispatched to a guild now omit a user's custom status (activity type 4) from activities when their Profile Privacy Setting is Friends Only, or Friends & Small Servers Only in guilds with more than 200 members. Other activity types are not affected.

## Facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Vendor | [Discord API](https://harbyn.com/vendors/discord.md) |
| Kind | Behavior change |
| Severity | low |
| Status | In effect |
| Announced | Sep 17, 2026 |
| Added to Harbyn | Sep 29, 2026 |
| Lead time | No dated deadline |
| Vendor page | <https://docs.discord.com/developers/change-log> |
| Review | Reviewed by a person, extracted by a deterministic parser |

## Find it in your code

```sh
npx harbyn scan
```

This change names no identifier the scanner can match line by line, so the scan tells you whether your repository uses Discord API, from its packages and API hosts. Nothing leaves your machine.

## Sources

Where this event comes from: the page we read, when we read it, and the hash of that snapshot.

- <https://docs.discord.com/developers/change-log/rss.xml> (changelog, fetched 2026-09-29 02:31 UTC, sha256 `20e95cba17fee3f184bd52fd045c1577dad365bffd0f71efb63e56d56fb88ba1`)

## Related changes

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- [Shard Param Required for Get Current User Guilds with Large Bot Sharding](https://harbyn.com/changes/discord/2026-09-15-shard-param-required-for-get-current-user-guilds-with-large-bot-sharding.md) (Breaking change, announced Sep 15, 2026)
- [Embedded App SDK renames getInstanceConnectedParticipants to getActivityInstanceConnectedParticipants](https://harbyn.com/changes/discord/2026-10-06-getactivityinstanceconnectedparticipants-command-renamed.md) (Deprecation, announced Oct 6, 2026)
- [OAuth2 authorization responses now include the iss parameter](https://harbyn.com/changes/discord/2026-10-14-oauth2-authorization-responses-now-include-iss.md) (Behavior change, announced Oct 14, 2026)

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