Status and availability

import {Steps, TabItem, Tabs} from "@astrojs/starlight/components";

import FlattenedSteps from "../../components/FlattenedSteps.astro"; import KeyboardTip from "../../components/KeyboardTip.astro"; import NavigationSteps from "../../components/NavigationSteps.astro"; import ZulipTip from "../../components/ZulipTip.astro"; import ClearStatus from "../include/_ClearStatus.mdx"; import MobileMenu from "../include/_MobileMenu.mdx"; import PersonalMenu from "../include/_PersonalMenu.mdx"; import SelfUserCard from "../include/_SelfUserCard.mdx"; import SetStatus from "../include/_SetStatus.mdx";

import UserCircleActiveIcon from "~icons/zulip-icon/user-circle-active"; import UserCircleIdleIcon from "~icons/zulip-icon/user-circle-idle"; import UserCircleOfflineIcon from "~icons/zulip-icon/user-circle-offline";

Status and availability let everyone know roughly how quickly you'll be responding to messages.

A status is a customizable emoji, along with a short message. A typical status might be "📅 In a meeting" or "🏠 Working remotely". To make it easy to notice, the status emoji is shown next to your name in the sidebars, message feed, and compose box.

Your availability is a colored dot (like <UserCircleActiveIcon />) that indicates if you're currently active on Zulip, idle, or offline. You can also go invisible to appear offline to other users.

Statuses

Set a status

You can set a status emoji, status message, or both.

  <SetStatus />
</FlattenedSteps>

<KeyboardTip>
  You can also use <kbd>Shift</kbd> + <kbd>Y</kbd> to open the status menu.
</KeyboardTip>

  <SetStatus />
</FlattenedSteps>

<KeyboardTip>
  You can also use <kbd>Shift</kbd> + <kbd>Y</kbd> to open the status menu.
</KeyboardTip>

  1. Tap **My profile**.
  1. Tap **Set status** or **Status**.
  1. Select one of the common statuses, or choose any emoji and/or write
     a short message.
  1. Tap **Save**.
</FlattenedSteps>

Clear a status

  <ClearStatus />
</FlattenedSteps>

<KeyboardTip>
  You can also use <kbd>Shift</kbd> + <kbd>Y</kbd> to open the status menu.
</KeyboardTip>

  <ClearStatus />
</FlattenedSteps>

<KeyboardTip>
  You can also use <kbd>Shift</kbd> + <kbd>Y</kbd> to open the status menu.
</KeyboardTip>

  1. Tap **My profile**.
  1. Tap **Status**.
  1. Tap **Clear**, and then **Save** in the top right corner of the app.
</FlattenedSteps>

View a status

Status emoji are shown next to a user's name in the sidebars, message feed, and compose box in the web and desktop apps, and next to the user's profile picture and name in the mobile app.

Status emoji and status messages are also shown on user cards in the web and desktop apps.

<ZulipTip>
  You can also click on a user's profile picture or name on a message they
  sent to view their status in their **user card**, or configure status text
  to always be shown in the right sidebar.
</ZulipTip>

Configure how statuses are displayed

You can choose whether or not status text is displayed in the right sidebar. With the compact option, only status emoji are shown.

  1. Under **Information**, select **Compact** or **Show status and text** for the
     user list style.
</FlattenedSteps>

<ZulipTip>
  You can always hover over a user's name in the right sidebar to view their
  status message if they have one set.
</ZulipTip>

Availability

There are three availability states:

• Active (<UserCircleActiveIcon />): Zulip is open and in focus on web, desktop or mobile, or was in the last 140 seconds.
• Idle (<UserCircleIdleIcon />): Zulip is open on your computer (either desktop or web), but you are not active.
• Offline (<UserCircleOfflineIcon />): Zulip is not open on your computer, or you have turned on invisible mode.

View availability

<ZulipTip>
  You can see when someone offline was last active by hovering over their
  name in the left or right sidebar.
</ZulipTip>

Invisible mode

Zulip supports the privacy option of never updating the availability information for your account. The result is that you will always appear to other users as Offline, regardless of your activity in Zulip.

With this setting, your "Last active" time displayed to other users in the UI will be frozen as the approximate time you enabled this setting. Your activity will still be included in your organization's statistics.

Toggle invisible mode

  1. To enable, you'll select **Go invisible**.
  1. To disable, you'll select **Turn off invisible mode**.
</FlattenedSteps>

<ZulipTip>
  You can also toggle this setting in the **Account & privacy**
  tab of your **Personal settings** menu.
</ZulipTip>

  1. Tap **My profile**.
  1. Toggle **Invisible mode**.
</FlattenedSteps>

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