How to Lock a Discord Channel on iPhone or iPad

Last Updated: October 2, 2022 Tested

This wikiHow teaches you how to “lock” a Discord channel, making it unusable to all users on your server. Since there's no switch that locks the channel, you'll have to create a new “role” that cannot access the channel, then assign that role to every user.

Part 1

Part 1 of 2:

Creating a New Role

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Open Discord. It's the purple or blue icon with a white game controller (labeled “Discord”) on your home screen.
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Tap ☰. It's at the top-left corner of the screen.

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Select a server. Servers are listed along the left side of the screen.
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Tap the name of the server. It's at the top of the screen.
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Tap Server Settings.
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Tap Roles.
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Tap Add Role.
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Enter a name for the role. Since you're creating this role to lock down a channel, you may want to call it something like “lockdown” or “restricted.”
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Tap Done.
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Tap the back button.
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Tap Members. Now you'll see a list of everyone on your server.
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Add all server members to the role. Any member you assign to this role will be unable to access the channel once it's locked down.^{[1]
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- To add a member, tap a member's name, select Edit Roles, select the role you just created, then tap Save.
- Repeat this process for everyone who can access the channel you want to lock.

Part 2

Part 2 of 2:

Locking Down the Channel

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Open Discord. If you closed the Discord app, tap the blue or purple icon labeled “Discord” on your home screen to open it now.
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Select the server.
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Select the channel you want to lock. The contents of the channel will now appear.
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Tap the name of the channel. It's at the top of the screen. If it's a chat channel, it begins with a hashtag (#).
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Tap Permissions.
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Tap Add Role.
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Select the new role you created. This opens the Permission Overrides screen.
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Select features to lock. Any option you disable (by tapping the red “X” next to its name) will be unavailable to users assigned to the new role.
- If you don't want anyone to be able to read or type on the channel, tap the red “X” next to Read Messages, Send Messages, and Send TTS Messages.
- To allow users to read the channel but not interact, tap the Xs next to Send Messages and Send TTS Messages, but leave Read Messages on (its check mark should be green).
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Tap Done. It's at the top-right corner of the screen. Members assigned to the new role can no longer access the channel.