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| # Status and availability
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| 
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| Status and availability let everyone know roughly how quickly you'll be
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| responding to messages.
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| 
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| A **status** is a customizable emoji, along with a short message. A typical
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| status might be "📅 In a meeting" or "🏠 Working remotely". To make it easy to
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| notice, the status emoji is shown next to your name in the sidebars, message
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| feed, and compose box.
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| 
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| Your **availability** is a colored dot (like <span class="indicator green
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| solid"></span>) that indicates if you're currently active on Zulip, idle,
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| or offline. You can also [go invisible](#invisible-mode) to appear offline
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| to other users.
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| 
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| ## Statuses
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| 
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| ### Set a status
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| 
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| You can set a status emoji, status message, or both.
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| 
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| {start_tabs}
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| 
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| {tab|desktop-web}
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| 
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| {!self-user-card.md!}
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| 
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| 1. Click **Set a status**.
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| 
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| 1. Click to select one of the common statuses, *or* choose any emoji and/or
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|    write a short message.
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| 
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| 1. Click **Save**.
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| 
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| {tab|mobile}
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| 
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| {!mobile-profile-menu.md!}
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| 
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| 1. Tap **Set a status**.
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| 
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| 1. Tap to select one of the common statuses, *or* choose any emoji and/or
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|    write a short message.
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| 
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| 1. Tap **Save**.
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| 
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| {end_tabs}
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| 
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| ### View a status
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| 
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| Status emoji are shown next to a user's name in the sidebars, message feed,
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| and compose box. Status emoji and status messages are also shown on
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| [user cards](/help/user-cards).
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| 
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| {start_tabs}
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| 
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| {tab|desktop-web}
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| 
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| 1. Hover over a user's name in the right sidebar, or in the **Direct messages**
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|    section in the left sidebar, to view their status message if they have one
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|    set.
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| 
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| !!! tip ""
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| 
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|     You can also click on a user's profile picture or name on a message they
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|     sent to view their status in their **user card**, or configure status text
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|     to always be shown in the right sidebar.
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| 
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| {tab|mobile}
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| 
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| 1. Tap on a user's profile picture or name to open their profile.
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| 
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| 1. Look for their status below the user's role (e.g., Member) if they have one
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|    set.
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| 
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| {!mobile-view-user-profile-tip.md!}
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| 
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| {end_tabs}
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| 
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| ### Configure how statuses are displayed
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| You can choose whether or not status text is displayed in the right sidebar.
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| With the compact option, only status emoji are shown.
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| 
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| {start_tabs}
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| 
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| {tab|desktop-web}
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| 
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| {settings_tab|preferences}
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| 
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| 1. Under **Advanced**, select **Compact** or **Show status and text** for the
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|    user list style.
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| 
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| !!! tip ""
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| 
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|     You can always hover over a user's name in the right sidebar to view their
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|     status message if they have one set.
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| 
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| {end_tabs}
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| 
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| ## Availability
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| 
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| There are three availability states:
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| 
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| * **Active** (<span class="indicator green solid"></span>): Zulip is
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|   open and in focus on web, desktop or mobile, or was in the last 140
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|   seconds.
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| 
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| * **Idle** (<span class="indicator orange"></span>): Zulip is open on
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|   your computer (either desktop or web), but you are not active.
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| 
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| * **Offline** (<span class="indicator grey"></span>): Zulip is not open
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|   on your computer, or you have turned on invisible mode.
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| 
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| You can see when someone offline was last active by hovering over their
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| name in the left or right sidebar.
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| 
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| ### Invisible mode
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| 
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| Zulip supports the privacy option of never updating the availability
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| information for your account. The result is that you will always
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| appear to other users as **Offline**, regardless of your activity in
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| Zulip.
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| 
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| With this setting, your "Last active" time displayed to other users in
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| the UI will be frozen as the approximate time you enabled this setting.
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| 
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| ### Toggle invisible mode
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| 
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| {start_tabs}
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| 
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| {tab|desktop-web}
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| 
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| {!self-user-card.md!}
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| 
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| 1. To enable, you'll select **Go invisible**.
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| 1. To disable, you'll select **Turn off invisible mode**.
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| 
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| !!! tip ""
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| 
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|     You can also toggle this setting in the **Account & privacy**
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|     tab of your **Personal settings** menu.
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| 
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| {tab|mobile}
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| 
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| {!mobile-profile-menu.md!}
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| 
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| 1. Toggle **Invisible mode**.
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| 
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| {end_tabs}
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| 
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| ## Related articles
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| 
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| * [Typing notifications](/help/typing-notifications)
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| * [Read receipts](/help/read-receipts)
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