Summary
The Discord mobile app recently got a redesign, which looks cute, but they still haven’t fixed the issues we’ve had with the mobile app for years. Discord is still neglecting the phone app when it could be so much better.
Let Me Log Into Two Accounts on My Phone
On the desktop, you can click your profile and log into alternative accounts very easily. You can also switch back and forth between them. It’s great for everyday people who need to use a throwaway account, and it’s critical for professionals (like freelancers) who need to keep two Discord accounts for work purposes.
The feature is still not ported over to the phone, and you have to scroll through settings to log out and log back in with a different account. There is a workaround bycloning the Discord appthat sidesteps this issue entirely. This workaround can clone any other app too.
Let Us Join Servers Quietly
By default, Discord announces to the entire server that you’ve just joined. There is no way to disable it, and there is no way to preview a server without joining it.
Discord has become a hub of a lot of useful information that once belonged on forums and such, but that information is now tied up in random channels scattered across servers. There is no way to access it without joining every relevant server and going through the onboarding process. That’s why there should be a “lurker” mode in Discord.
In lurker mode, enabled with a simple toggle, you’re able to join andleave serverswithout actually joining or leaving them. Think of it as a little preview of what the server has to offer before you decide if you want to go through the onboarding process.
Muting Notifications Should Actually Mute Them
Discord notifications are relentless, both in and out of the app, and they get worse with every new server you join. People have been complaining about them for years.
Even if youtweak Discord’s scattered, user-hostile notification settings, the red dots are never ending. The only way that actually works is the nuclear approach: disabling both in and out-app notifications entirely using system settings.
Muting notifications should mute them. Period. Even if someone pings you with your role or name, it shouldn’t notify you.
Fix the Search, Please
Searching for stuff on Discord is near impossible. There is no universal search (for the whole account, or DMs) and even when the search works, it throws everything it can find at you without any way to sort or filter.
For the amount of information that Discord holds, it should have sophisticated filters in place to access it. Media, text, or links, nothing can be found with the tedium of manually scrolling through it. There should be a “match the exact search” filter. Putting your query in quotes does nothing.
Better than regular filters or sorting, the app should have an omnibar that works with natural language. Something like “all PDF files by @veli from May 2025” would work wonders for searching your Discord.
GIFs Are Still Broken
Discord still hasn’t figured out how to getGIFsright. The search never renders all results fully. For every loaded GIF, you have ten more than just get stuck loading.
When launching the GIF widget, you’ll notice that the GIF categories don’t always render right away (if at all). GIFs in the “Favorite” folder will randomly disappear or refuse to load. More importantly, there’s no way to remove a favorite GIF that’s broken, because you have to press that little star icon to “unfavorite” a GIF, which doesn’t load until the GIF itself loads. You end up with a bunch of junk in your favorites folder with no way of removing it.
Folders That Actually Help You Organize Servers
The only way to organize Discord servers right now is to cram them into tiny little containers on the sidebar, where the space is too small to display the server icons or names. Once those folders are collapsed, you have no idea which servers they’re holding.
We need a better way to organize our servers into folders. Perhaps a new settings menu where you’re able to bring related servers together in folders that can be labeled, tagged, or at least color-coded. Dragging and dropping icons around in the narrow sidebar is clunky. It’s doubly true for mobile phones, where it’s difficult to be precise in such a narrow space, you often end up dropping the server in the wrong folder.
I know mobile phones don’t bring the same amount of traffic that desktops do for Discord. Nevertheless, it deserves love from developers. It’s about time it gets more than just cosmetic changes.
