--- title: "Discord's voice and video calls just got much more secure, but it's still leaving text messages exposed" url: https://daily.dev/posts/discord-s-voice-and-video-calls-just-got-much-more-secure-but-it-s-still-leaving-text-messages-expo-dheqw99dk source_url: https://www.xda-developers.com/discords-voice-and-video-calls-e2ee type: article source: "XDA Developers" published: 2026-05-20T05:02:09.260Z updated: 2026-05-20T05:02:51.460Z tags: ["privacy", "encryption", "discord"] reading_time: 2 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Discord's voice and video calls just got much more secure, but it's still leaving text messages exposed **[XDA Developers](https://daily.dev/sources/xda-developers)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Discord has rolled out end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for all voice and video calls as of March 2026, covering all users by default without requiring opt-in. Stages are excluded due to their public nature. However, Discord has explicitly stated there are no plans to extend E2EE to text messages, citing the significant engineering challenge of rebuilding features that were designed assuming unencrypted text. This leaves Discord's primary communication medium — text chat — still unprotected from server-side access. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#privacy](https://daily.dev/tags/privacy), [#encryption](https://daily.dev/tags/encryption), [#discord](https://daily.dev/tags/discord) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/discord-s-voice-and-video-calls-just-got-much-more-secure-but-it-s-still-leaving-text-messages-expo-dheqw99dk)