Discord Patch Notes: August 4, 2025 (opens in new tab)
Discord’s August 4, 2025 patch focuses on reliability, responsiveness, search, and cross-platform usability. Major updates improve Android keyboard behavior, media downloads, Tumblr embeds, thread search, pinned-message limits, and settings navigation during calls. The release also addresses numerous platform-specific bugs affecting navigation, rendering, notifications, accessibility, and server administration. ## Search, Media, and Content Improvements - Search now includes messages inside threads. - Thread names can be autocompleted with the `in:` search filter. - Embedded images and videos from other platforms download more reliably. - Downloaded media should no longer produce malformed filenames such as `@jpeg.bin.jpg`. - Tumblr links now receive properly formatted embeds, including Tumblr-hosted sites on custom domains. - The maximum number of pinned messages per channel increased from 50 to 250. ## Android and Mobile Usability - Android keyboard handling was improved, especially when switching between emoji input, the gallery, and the system keyboard. - Fixed cases where the keyboard covered messages or obscured too much of the interface on Android multitasking and foldable devices. - iOS received fixes for search crashes, emoji cropping, search-filter suggestions, Friends-list icon padding, and custom-status alignment. - Back gestures on mobile no longer incorrectly navigate from channel settings all the way back to chat. - Server Onboarding backgrounds, popups, and state retention were corrected across mobile flows. ## Desktop and Apple Platform Integrations - On desktop, User Settings now opens directly to Voice & Video when the user is in a call. - macOS Spotlight can now locate Discord channels by channel or server name. - Apple Handoff lets users move directly to a Discord channel from an iPad, Mac Dock, or iOS app switcher. - Desktop notifications now navigate correctly to Discord. - The system tray icon should remain visible after desktop updates. - Fixed PiP settings appearing behind the picture-in-picture window. ## Performance and Reliability - Discord improved GDM search, direct-message cleanup, and relationship-operation handling for accounts with extremely large amounts of data. - These changes target severe startup and application slowdowns experienced by heavy-utilization users. - Numerous crashes, rendering problems, and unreliable interactions were fixed across desktop, Android, and iOS. ## Server, Role, and Moderation Fixes - Roles can now be deleted from the right-click menu in Role Settings. - Mobile role sorting works again. - Pending friend requests are visible in desktop user profiles. - Audit-log entries for Android voice-channel statuses now use the correct icon. - Server invite dialogs once again show the username being used to accept an invitation. - Server template names that are too short now produce an informative error. - Mod View dates now respect the configured date format instead of always using `MM/DD/YYYY`. - Server Onboarding dismissal state is preserved when navigating away and returning. ## Rendering, Text, and Interface Corrections - Japanese channel names and Burmese Unicode text now render and transmit correctly. - Fixed blank reaction emojis, cropped iOS emojis, masked links in mobile event descriptions, and duplicated users in member lists. - Corrected alignment and padding issues across buttons, role displays, search controls, badges, popups, Clips, and subscription flows. - Username autocomplete is less aggressive and no longer locks onto the first matching result. - Discoverable-server globe icons, boosting icons, and official badges are now positioned correctly. - Student Hub menus, voice-message volume sliders, and invite-permission messaging were repaired or clarified. Overall, this release is primarily a broad maintenance update. Users with heavy Discord accounts, Android keyboard issues, thread-search needs, or frequent cross-device use should benefit most, while the many smaller fixes improve consistency across Discord’s platforms.