Overview
- Beginning in early March, all new and existing accounts will default to a teen-appropriate setting until users verify they are adults, with a phased rollout worldwide.
- Adults can unlock age-gated spaces and settings by completing on-device facial age estimation or submitting a government ID to third-party vendor partners, with some users asked to use multiple methods.
- Unverified accounts will see sensitive content blurred, lose access to age-restricted channels and commands, have unknown DMs routed to a separate inbox with friend-request warnings, and be unable to speak on Stage channels.
- Discord says video selfies never leave the device and that IDs handled by vendors are deleted quickly, typically immediately after confirmation, with verification status kept private and an appeal option available.
- The company plans an age inference model to reduce manual checks and is creating a Teen Council for safety input, while critics highlight a 2025 vendor breach that exposed roughly 70,000 users’ ID photos.