How to Hide Recently Played Games from Friends
To hide recently played games from friends, you can change your Steam profile settings to Private or Friends Only, which will prevent others from seeing your game activity and recently played games. By doing so, you can maintain your online privacy and control who can see your gaming history.
Understanding Steam Profile Settings
Steam provides various privacy settings that allow you to control who can see your game details, friends list, and game activity. To access these settings, you need to log in to your Steam account, go to your profile, and click on Edit Profile. From there, you can change your privacy settings to Private or Friends Only, which will restrict others from seeing your recently played games.
Hiding Game Activity on Discord
If you want to hide your game activity on Discord, you can turn off the display current activity as a status message option in your Activity Privacy settings. This will prevent others from seeing what games you are playing, as well as any other activity you have on Spotify, Discord Stages, and other similar apps.
FAQs
- How do I hide played Steam games?: To hide played Steam games, you need to launch Steam, hover over your username, and select View my profile. Then, click on Edit Profile, select Privacy settings, and set Game details to Private or Friends Only.
- Can friends see me play hidden games?: No, if you hide games from Steam chat, your friends won’t be able to see what you are playing now, but this information is still visible on your Steam profile.
- How do I hide recent activity from friends on Steam?: To hide recent activity from friends on Steam, you need to go to your Steam Profile, click on Edit Profile, find Privacy Settings, and change the privacy setting under Game Details to Private.
- Is there a way to hide game activity?: Yes, you can hide game activity by changing your Steam profile settings to Private or Friends Only.
- What does hiding games on Steam do?: Hiding games on Steam prevents others from seeing your game activity and recently played games, allowing you to maintain your online privacy.
- How do I view someone’s hidden games on Steam?: To view someone’s hidden games on Steam, you need to go to the Steam window, head over to View, and select Hidden Games.
- Can friends see what game you’re playing on Discord?: Yes, Discord users can usually see what games or music you are playing due to the default Discord Activity Status setting.
- How do I delete game app history?: To delete game app history, you need to open the Play Games app, tap More, Settings, tap Delete Play Games account & data, and find the game data you want to remove and tap Delete.
- How do I hide recently played games on Xbox app?: To hide recently played games on Xbox app, you need to open the Xbox app, sign in, select your gamertag, select Settings, Account, and choose the desired setting under Others can see your PC game activity.
- How do I enable activity status on Discord?: To enable activity status on Discord, you need to click on the Gear icon, select Activity Privacy, and enable the option that says Display current activity as a status message.
- How do I show all hidden games?: To show all hidden games, you need to right-click on the game in your Hidden games library, click Manage, and click Remove from hidden.
- Can friends see hidden games on Steam?: No, if you hide games on Steam, your friends won’t be able to see what you are playing now, but this information is still visible on your Steam profile.
- How do I permanently delete a game from Steam?: To permanently delete a game from Steam, you need to go to the game’s page, click the Support link, and click the button labeled I want to permanently remove this game from my account.
- Why is my activity app not showing my friend’s activity?: If you are unable to see your friend’s activity on your Apple Watch, try removing one friend and then inviting them back to see if that resolves the issue.
- Will my friend know if I hide my activity on Apple Watch?: No, if you hide your activity on Apple Watch, your friend won’t receive a notification, but they will no longer be able to see your activity when they check.