# Can you leave a discord group without people knowing? **URL:** \ **Category:** General\ **Tags:** discord\ **Created:** [November 26, 2025, 1:20am UTC](https://community.redact.dev/t/can-you-leave-a-discord-group-without-people-knowing/133 "2025-11-26T01:20:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![derekfrancisc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@derekfrancisc](https://community.redact.dev/u/derekfrancisc)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2025, 1:20am UTC](https://community.redact.dev/t/can-you-leave-a-discord-group-without-people-knowing/133/1 "2025-11-26T01:20:17Z")
I’m currently in a few group chats that I really want to leave, but I don’t want to deal with the awkwardness of that system message popping up saying I left. Is there any trick to leave a group without it notifying everyone else, or does it always show that message no matter what? I just want to slip out quietly without causing any drama. ---
**Author:** ![D-Mag](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/community.redact.dev/d-mag/32/131_2.png) [@D-Mag](https://community.redact.dev/u/D-Mag)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2025, 1:48am UTC](https://community.redact.dev/t/can-you-leave-a-discord-group-without-people-knowing/133/2 "2025-11-26T01:48:18Z")
From a protocol standpoint, this is effectively impossible. When you leave a group, your client sends a `DELETE` request to the API endpoint for that specific channel’s recipients. This action triggers a server-side event called `CHANNEL_RECIPIENT_REMOVE`. Once the Discord backend processes that event, it automatically generates a System Message and pushes it to the client of every other person in that group. Because this message generation happens on Discord’s servers and not on your local client, there is no way to intercept or suppress it via a mod or plugin. The only way to technically ‘leave’ without generating that packet is to simply Mute the group and close it. This keeps your user ID in the recipients list (so no leave event is fired) but stops the notifications from appearing in your client. ---
**Author:** ![TimBuckToo420](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/community.redact.dev/timbucktoo420/32/200_2.png) [@TimBuckToo420](https://community.redact.dev/u/TimBuckToo420)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2025, 1:51am UTC](https://community.redact.dev/t/can-you-leave-a-discord-group-without-people-knowing/133/3 "2025-11-26T01:51:29Z")
Be a man and announce in CAPS to the whole chat that the place sucks ass and you’re dipping! [![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/uploads/redact/original/1X/b36416c338c8c15d128f450ec217a3bd3b212dc2.jpeg "Half Baked: Scarface quits his job") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIqeXSYc8nE) ---
**Author:** ![kittycat](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/community.redact.dev/kittycat/32/137_2.png) [@kittycat](https://community.redact.dev/u/kittycat)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2025, 12:53pm UTC](https://community.redact.dev/t/can-you-leave-a-discord-group-without-people-knowing/133/4 "2025-11-26T12:53:53Z")
haha this is a classic scene! haven’t seen that in years. ---
**Author:** ![lil\_debbie\_cakes](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/community.redact.dev/lil_debbie_cakes/32/141_2.png) [@lil\_debbie\_cakes](https://community.redact.dev/u/lil_debbie_cakes)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2025, 6:35pm UTC](https://community.redact.dev/t/can-you-leave-a-discord-group-without-people-knowing/133/5 "2025-12-03T18:35:54Z")
I don’t believe there is a way to leave the chat without Discord announcing it to everyone. I actually hate this feature myself. ---
**Author:** ![soyga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@soyga](https://community.redact.dev/u/soyga)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2025, 1:45am UTC](https://community.redact.dev/t/can-you-leave-a-discord-group-without-people-knowing/133/6 "2025-12-07T01:45:41Z")
nope not possible to leave a discord chat without the auto-announcement. ---
**Author:** ![tomliver](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex027/user_avatar/community.redact.dev/tomliver/32/199_2.png) [@tomliver](https://community.redact.dev/u/tomliver)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2025, 7:29pm UTC](https://community.redact.dev/t/can-you-leave-a-discord-group-without-people-knowing/133/7 "2025-12-18T19:29:13Z")
who cares? go out with a bang! go out in style fam! ---
**Author:** ![derekfrancisc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c57346/32.png) [@derekfrancisc](https://community.redact.dev/u/derekfrancisc)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2025, 3:35am UTC](https://community.redact.dev/t/can-you-leave-a-discord-group-without-people-knowing/133/8 "2025-12-19T03:35:50Z")
Thanks for all the replies guys