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help-docs: Update status and availability for invisible mode feature. 

Updates the help center article on 'Status and availability' to
describe invisible mode as a feature and removes all mentions of
the unavailable feature.

Fixes #21178.
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Lauryn Menard 2022-09-22 16:18:36 +02:00 committed by Tim Abbott
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@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ feed, and compose box.
Your **availability** is a colored dot (like <span class="indicator green
solid"></span>) that indicates if you're currently active on Zulip, idle,
offline, or unavailable.
or offline. You can also [go invisible](#invisible-mode) to appear offline
to other users.
## Statuses
@ -56,7 +57,7 @@ status message will appear.
## Availability
There are four possible availabilities:
There are three availability states:
* **Active** (<span class="indicator green solid"></span>): Zulip is
open and in focus on web, desktop or mobile, or was in the last 140
@ -65,18 +66,23 @@ There are four possible availabilities:
* **Idle** (<span class="indicator orange"></span>): Zulip is open on
your computer (either desktop or web), but you are not active.
* **Offline** (<span class="indicator grey"></span>): Zulip is not
open on your computer.
* **Offline** (<span class="indicator grey"></span>): Zulip is not open
on your computer, or you have turned on invisible mode.
* **Unavailable** (<span class="indicator grey-line"></span>): You can
always manually set your availability to unavailable.
You can see when someone offline was last active by hovering over their
name in the left or right sidebar.
### Invisible mode
You can see when someone was last recorded as active by hovering over
their name in the left or right sidebar (even if the user is marked as
unavailable).
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.
### Set yourself as unavailable
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.
### Toggle invisible mode
{start_tabs}
@ -84,7 +90,14 @@ unavailable).
{!self-user-actions-menu.md!}
1. Click **Set yourself as unavailable**.
1. To enable, you'll select **Go invisible**.
1. To disable, you'll select **Turn off invisible mode**.
!!! tip ""
You can also toggle this setting in the **Account & privacy**
tab of your **Personal settings** menu.
{tab|mobile}
@ -94,32 +107,6 @@ unavailable).
{end_tabs}
!!! tip ""
You can also use the same menu to mark yourself as available again.
### Disable updating availability
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** (or **Unavailable**, if you've
set an appropriate status), 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 time you enabled this setting.
{start_tabs}
{settings_tab|account-and-privacy}
1. Under **Privacy**, toggle **Display my availability to other users**.
{end_tabs}
Note that because this setting works by making your availability stop
updating, you'll still appear to other users as active for a few
minutes after disabling updates to your availability.
## Related articles
* [Typing notifications](/help/typing-notifications)