Invisible or Offline by default

[boggler]

I miss the option in the settings to be displayed offline or invisible in the friends list by default, when starting steam.

[Shroom]

I just tested it and if I set myself to invisible before logging out, I come back online also as invisible. So that is a possibility, if you remember to hide yourself before logging out. But yes, the option to always have it set as offline by default, as a fail-safe if forgetting to do that or if steam crashed or something, would be nice.

[The Supreme Solid Wounded Eagle]

indeed it would be an amazing option

[boggler]

I just tested it and if I set myself to invisible before logging out, I come back online also as invisible.

You are absolutely right and i know this option. But i would like to be invisible at every start and then decide after the start if i can be seen. Just like I can, if I don't use the beta.

[Shaklin]

+1
Pls bring back the option Steam → Settings → Friends tab → Uncheck "Automatically sign into Friends when I start Steam" (maybe i'm blind, but i can't find this option anymore)

[Zonker]

Was looking for this and I'd like to request to have this setting back, too. Have been using the "offline by default" setting for years now and would hate to lose it.

[Mister X]

+1
I'm really this feature in the beta.

[bernardffaucher]

+1

[MeanJim]

Originally posted by bernardffaucher:

+1

Thread necromancer!

The re-added the ability to not sign in by default. Other than that, it remembers your last status when you start Steam. If you go invisible before you close Steam, you will be invisible the next time you start.

[Jaunitta 🌸]

Originally posted by Dѻѻm:

I just tested it and if I set myself to invisible before logging out, I come back online also as invisible. So that is a possibility, if you remember to hide yourself before logging out. But yes, the option to always have it set as offline by default, as a fail-safe if forgetting to do that or if steam crashed or something, would be nice.

+1

[Zonker]

Originally posted by Jaunitta 🌸:

Originally posted by Dѻѻm:

I just tested it and if I set myself to invisible before logging out, I come back online also as invisible. So that is a possibility, if you remember to hide yourself before logging out. But yes, the option to always have it set as offline by default, as a fail-safe if forgetting to do that or if steam crashed or something, would be nice.

+1

The "offline by default" option has been back for some time now, you can find it if you click the gear icon in the top right of your friends list to get the friends list settings. Then FRIENDS LIST > Sign in to friends when Steam Client starts" to off. This keeps you offline reliably unless you manually set yourself to online.

[br0ast]

Originally posted by Zonker:

Originally posted by Jaunitta 🌸:

+1

The "offline by default" option has been back for some time now, you can find it if you click the gear icon in the top right of your friends list to get the friends list settings. Then FRIENDS LIST > Sign in to friends when Steam Client starts" to off. This keeps you offline reliably unless you manually set yourself to online.

I'm not seeing this option - there is no gear icon or anything else intractable other than to Sign into Friends and Chat. Is it really because I'm signed out of Friends? Do I really have to sign into friends to find the option to keep me offline?

So I just tested it and sadly what I've just implied above is true.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

They moved the friends settings to the friends list when they updated the Chat UI back when this thread was created.

[MetaSamsara]

Sadly, offline by default doesn't prevent a notification from sending to everyone in the friend's list when you want to access the chat, because you HAVE to switch to online when you're offline. Being INVISIBLE as default would be much much nicer for privacy than only having the option to be totally offline.

[te lo juro ayer era pro]

AE

[MeanJim]

Originally posted by Who:

Sadly, offline by default doesn't prevent a notification from sending to everyone in the friend's list when you want to access the chat, because you HAVE to switch to online when you're offline. Being INVISIBLE as default would be much much nicer for privacy than only having the option to be totally offline.

You can go from offline to invisible by right clicking the tray icon and selecting invisible, or from the client, click friends and select invisible.