Overview
- Discord finished migrating to its DAVE encryption system in March 2026, turning on default end‑to‑end encryption across DMs, group calls, voice channels, and Go Live, which means only people on the call can decrypt the audio and video.
- All clients must now support DAVE to join a call, and Discord is removing the code that once allowed unencrypted fallback connections so calls cannot revert to plaintext.
- Stage channels are not included because they use a broadcast setup for large public events rather than private conversations, which does not fit end‑to‑end protection.
- To make DAVE work everywhere, engineers extended support to desktop, mobile, web, PlayStation, and Xbox and worked with Mozilla to fix a Firefox issue that blocked real‑world browser calls.
- Discord says it has no current plans to add end‑to‑end encryption to text messages because many chat features depend on server‑side processing that would need major rewrites.