Discord Patch Notes: July 7, 2026 (opens in new tab)

Discord’s July 7, 2026 patch focuses on performance improvements, cross-platform reliability, usability fixes, and bug cleanup. Notable changes include nearly 20% faster typical iOS startup times through React Native’s Fabric architecture, faster session connections, Linux looping-media fixes, silent message forwarding, and channel pinning for all servers. The remaining changes address a wide range of interface, profile, notification, search, and platform-specific issues.

Performance and Reliability

• iOS migration to React Native’s New Architecture, Fabric, produced nearly 20% improvements in typical app initialization times.
• A session-start configuration change reduced p95 and p99 connection times by approximately 100 milliseconds.
• Linux GIFs and videos now loop correctly after a deep media-stack fix.
• Linux no longer gradually leaks X11 connections on NVIDIA systems, which could eventually prevent other applications from opening.
• Windows startup now launches Discord quietly in the background instead of stealing focus from games.
• Desktop clients no longer stop accepting mouse clicks after two rapid refreshes.

Messaging and Server Features

• Message forwarding now supports @silent, allowing users to forward messages without notifying recipients.
• Channel Pinning is now available on all servers, rather than only Community-enabled servers.
• Invites to servers a user already belongs to now open the server directly instead of incorrectly starting Server Tag Adoption.
• Invalid search filters such as has: hello are no longer treated as valid filters on Android and iOS.

Desktop Interface Fixes

• Profile cards, custom-status hover bars, and other elements now have corrected corner shapes, positioning, and overflow behavior.
• Long searches no longer cause “No results” text to overflow searchable dropdowns.
• Small login windows no longer show an unexpected scrollbar or misaligned sign-in box.
• Adding widgets while editing a profile no longer discards unsaved changes.
• Badge links now close the profile modal before opening Nitro Home or the Shop.
• The “24 hours” custom-status expiration now lasts a full 24 hours instead of clearing at midnight.
• Spelling suggestions now appear when right-clicking misspelled text in fields such as display names, poll questions, and channel names.
• Search filter dates no longer shift forward by a day when reopening the filters modal.
• The Inbox keybind no longer locks the client when another modal is open.
• Nitro items in a user’s own wishlist now open the subscription modal instead of offering an impossible self-gift.

iOS Improvements

• Channel-list scrolling is smoother and no longer jitters or jumps.
• Notification settings correctly recognize already-enabled push notifications without requiring the page to be reopened.
• Profile previews now reflect pending display-name style changes.
• Scheduled event and Live channel location text truncates correctly within cards.
• iPad browser invites now preserve the invite code and display the invite properly in Discord.
• Profile-tab scrolling no longer causes content clipping.
• Shop item previews no longer make profile text flash and disappear.
• Nitro perk descriptions are easier to scroll when system text is enlarged.
• Various visual issues were corrected, including theme-colored boxes, unclear channel-list banners, and invisible or overflowing elements.

Android Improvements

• Nitro carousel indicators are now visible across default themes.
• Incomplete server-application alerts can be dismissed by tapping outside them or pressing Back.
• Profile-picture editor labels and sliders for “Scale” and “Rotate” now appear correctly on affected themes.
• Profile Call and Message buttons now render at consistent sizes after accepting a friend request.

Overall, the update is primarily a broad maintenance release: users should see faster startup and connections, more consistent media and navigation behavior, and fewer platform-specific interface bugs.