Presence and desktop

Streamer Mode

Streamer Mode keeps private things off your stream: notifications stop showing who messaged you and what they said, and Sunflare asks before showing your email or birthday. It can switch on by itself when streaming software is running.

• Settings
• Streamer Mode

What it does#

• Notifications just say Sunflare: New message, with no sender and no text. That covers the moment people usually get caught out: a DM popping up in the corner of a stream. It applies to the pop-up in the app, the system notification, and the Game Overlay, which sits right where your stream capture points.
• Email and birthday in Settings are always hidden behind Reveal. With Streamer Mode on, clicking Reveal asks you to confirm first, so a stray click doesn't put them on stream.

Turning it on#

• By hand: switch on Enable Streamer Mode, either here or in Settings → Modules.
• Automatically Windows desktop app: turn on Automatically enable when streaming software is detected.

Automatic detection#

Every 15 seconds, the desktop app checks whether any of these are running: OBS, Streamlabs, XSplit, Twitch Studio, vMix, Wirecast, PRISM Live Studio, Restream Studio, or Lightstream Studio. If one is, Streamer Mode turns on. When they've all closed (confirmed by a second check a few seconds later), it turns off again.

If you turn Streamer Mode on by hand while automatic detection is off, it stays exactly how you set it.

A checklist before going live#

1. Turn on Streamer Mode (or check that automatic detection did).
2. Capture the game window, not your whole screen.
3. If you don't want viewers to see what you're listening to or playing, turn on Hide My Activity.
4. Close DMs and private channels in Sunflare before switching to it on stream.
5. For no pings at all while live, set your status to Do Not Disturb.