What Is Find Your Friends?

The process of establishing a connection with your pals on Discord has just been significantly less difficult. We are excited to introduce Locate Your Friends, a feature that will allow you to locate friends on Discord by utilizing the contacts stored on your phone.

How Does Finding Your Friends Work:

Let’s pretend that Wumpus and Cap are buddies and that Wumpus has Cap’s contact information saved on his phone.

Because Wumpus and Cap are both using Discord and wish to make new friends, BOTH of them will need to opt in for it to be possible to locate them through the Find Your Friends feature.

If Wumpus turns on Find Your Friends, he will be able to locate Cap in a list of newly discovered friends and will be given the choice to send Cap a request to be his friend. It will resemble anything along these lines:

However,…

If Wumpus already possesses Cap’s contact information but Cap does not opt-in to be discoverable through Locate Your Friends, then Wumpus will not be able to locate him.

NOTE :

– We will not steal any names from your address book in any way. You will be given the option to manually enter your name if you want your friends to be able to recognize you more quickly; however, you are free to ignore this step if you so want.

How Do I Set Up to Find Your Friends?

1. Tap the second button from the left in the Navbar to navigate to your Friends tab:

2. Once you have navigated to the friends list, select the Getting Started or Locate Friends option. The screen will have a different appearance for you based on whether or not you already have friends on Discord.

3. The next screen you see will be for the Permissions panel. To allow your contacts to connect you to Discord, you need to tap the toggle button. (Click on “Learn More” for intinformation.

4. The next step is to confirm that your phone number is correct. You can skip this step entirely if the phone number associated with your Discord account has previously been validated.

Simply input your phone number and then paste the six-digit confirmation code in order to verify your phone number (XXX-XXX)

5. After you have selected to Sync Contacts with a Verified Phone Number, a modal window will appear, requesting permission to access your contact list.

6. The synchronisation of your contacts will start as soon as you press the OK button.

7. When the synchronisation is finished, we will present you with a list of your contacts on Discord who have the Locate Your Friends feature activated. You will have the opportunity to send your contacts an invitation to join Discord if none of your contacts are already using the platform or have Locate Your Friends disabled.

8. On this screen, you have the option to modify the name that your contact will see when you send them an invite. This is useful in the event that your contacts do not recognise you based on your Discord Tag.

How Do I Change My Name?

1. Go to the User Settings tab of your account by tapping the first button to the right in the Navbar (It’s the one with your profile picture on it). This will allow you to modify the name that appears in the Locate Your Friends feature.

2. When you are on the screen for your User Settings, select the Name setting by tapping on it.

3. Change your name, then press the Next button.

How Do I Disable Find Your Friends?

1. To disable Locate Your Friends, go to the User Settings tab by hitting the first button to the right in the Navbar (it’s the one with your profile picture on it). This will take you to the page where you may stop the feature.

2. When you are on the page for your User Settings, navigate to the section where you can adjust your Privacy and Safety settings.

3. To enable or disable this option, tap the Allow contacts to add me button.

Note: If you disable the Locate Your Friends feature, your contacts will no longer be able to locate you using that function.

Privacy

How does Discord know my contact is using Discord?

If you have Locate Your Friends enabled on your account, Discord will periodically sync the phone numbers stored on your device with the servers that Discord uses.

The corresponding phone numbers have been hashed cryptographically. If you and your contact have both chosen to be discoverable, we will compare the cryptographically hashed data and identify a match when your contact also allows Find Your Friends. The names of contacts are never uploaded, and the raw numbers of their phones are never saved. Each individual user is responsible for manually entering their names into the programme so that their friends can recognise them. This method enables us to stop spam and ensures that you are only matched with people you already know; you will never be matched with anyone you have blocked. If you delete your Discord account or turn off the “Find Your Friends” feature, all of your contact information will be removed from the Discord servers.

We won’t use the information you provide to Locate Your Friends for any other purpose than to assist you in locating and inviting others to join Discord.

What happens after I disable Find Your Friends?

If you delete your Discord account or turn off the “Find Your Friends” feature, all of your contact information will be removed from the Discord servers.

We will not delete any existing friend recommendations in any direction, but we will not create any new friend suggestions either.

All images and contents credit goes to support.discord.com