Your Private Discord Voice and Video Chats Are Now End-to-End Encrypted
Discord has implemented end-to-end encryption for voice and video chats, enhancing user security. This encryption, using the DAVE protocol, is now standard for all calls except Stage channels. While Discord continues to improve privacy protections, there are currently no plans to extend encryption to text messages.
- ▪Discord's voice and video chats now feature default end-to-end encryption.
- ▪The encryption rollout began in March 2026 and requires all clients to support the DAVE protocol.
- ▪Discord has no current plans to extend end-to-end encryption to text messaging.
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Conversations over voice and video chat within Discord are now more secure than ever, thanks to new default end-to-end encryption (E2EE) tools. The company first began experimenting with E2EE for voice and video in August 2023, and it started rolling out in March 2026 using DAVE, its open, audited end-to-end encryption protocol for audio and video. That requires a lot of coordination between platforms; as Discord explains, a single call could include "someone on a laptop, someone on their phone, someone on a PlayStation, someone on an Xbox, and someone in a web browser." Discord requires all these clients to support DAVE before joining a call, and as of this week, it's "now in the process of removing the client code that supports unencrypted fallback.
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