While playing games, if you receive messages or calls on the screen, you must know how to turn off Discord overlay. This feature helps you to access all the messages and calls on the screen while gaming. But sometimes, it creates a commotion, and you wish to disable the feature. This blog has laid out the complete guide on how to turn off Discord overlay on your device.
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How To Turn Off Overlay On Discord?
Once you turn off the Discord overlay, it stops showing messages and calls on the screen, and you can peacefully do your gaming. So here’s the step to disable it.
- Open Discord on your desktop and make sure you are logged in.
- Go to the user setting at the bottom-left of the screen.
- After going on the user setting, find the game overlay option at the screen’s bottom-left and click on it.
- Now, go on top and turn off the enable in-game overlay option if it is turned on. Once you do it, your game overlay will be turned off.
- If you want to disable a game overlay on games, simply go to the Activity status in the same panel and click on it.
- Your desktop will show you the games you play; you can disable the overlay option on each by turning off the green monitor icon present as “overlay on” on the right side.
Steps To Disable Voice Overlay On Your Phone
Voice overlay is a similar feature to Discord overlay. This lets you see who’s talking on the platform while you use other applications. You can also access the shortcuts using this feature. But if you want to disable voice overlay, follow the steps mentioned.
- Go to the Discord app and click on the user setting.
- Scroll down and tap on the voice & video option.
- You will see many options; scroll and find enable mobile voice overlay. Once you get it, please turn it off, and you are done.
Now you know how to turn off Discord overlay and avoid disturbance while playing the game. Unfortunately, sometimes this feature also stops working for some reason. So if this ever happens, you can refer to the guide on fixing the Discord overlay not working.