diff --git a/templates/zerver/help/status-and-availability.md b/templates/zerver/help/status-and-availability.md index 0cffde7880..422709bc96 100644 --- a/templates/zerver/help/status-and-availability.md +++ b/templates/zerver/help/status-and-availability.md @@ -10,7 +10,8 @@ feed, and compose box. Your **availability** is a colored dot (like ) 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** (): 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** (): Zulip is open on your computer (either desktop or web), but you are not active. -* **Offline** (): Zulip is not - open on your computer. +* **Offline** (): Zulip is not open + on your computer, or you have turned on invisible mode. -* **Unavailable** (): 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)