How to Make a Discord Channel Private on PC or Mac

This wikiHow teaches you how to restrict a Discord channel to a specific number of members when you use a computer.

Steps

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Open Discord. Click the Discord app in the Windows menu (PC) or Applications folder (Mac), then sign in if you haven’t already.

You can also access Discord using a browser. Go to https://www.discordapp.com, click Login in the upper right corner of the screen and enter your account information to log in.
You must be a server administrator or have the appropriate permissions to make a channel private.

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Click the server. The server icon is listed along the left side of the screen. A list of channels on the server will open.

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Hover over the channel you want to make private. Two small icons will appear.

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Click the gear icon to the right of the channel name.

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Click Permissions .

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Click @everyone to select. If this option is already selected, you can skip this step.

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Click the red X next to all the options in the right pane.

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Click Save Changes . This blue button is in the bottom right corner of Discord. So you’ve removed all permissions on the channel, now we need to add the user back manually.

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Click the “+” sign next to the “Rpes/Members” heading. The list of members on the server will open.

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Click on a member to add them to the channel.

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Set permissions for the selected member. Click the green checkmark next to each permission option. The following permissions are required for this user to chat with other users:

Read messages – Read messages
Send messages – (Send messages
Attach files – Attach files (optional)
Add reactions – Add reactions (optional)

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Click Save changes . So you’ve added members with normal permissions back to the private channel. You need to repeat this process with each other member you want to add. Except for those added by you, no one can use this channel.

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