How to Remove Your Discord HypeSquad Badge in 2026

The 30-second version

The "Leave HypeSquad" button used to live in User Settings → Connections → HypeSquad. In 2026, Discord removed the entire HypeSquad tab from User Settings — quiz and all. There's no in-app way to remove the badge anymore.

The API endpoint behind the old button still works. To remove your HypeSquad badge in 2026:

1. Open discord.dog/tools/hypesquad-switcher
2. Drag the bookmarklet to your bookmarks bar
3. Open Discord in your browser and click the bookmarklet
4. Click Remove HypeSquad badge in the popup

Done. The badge disappears immediately.

If you'd rather not use a third-party tool, the technical methods at the bottom of this post work too — they make the same API call directly.

What happened to the HypeSquad settings tab

For seven years, User Settings → Connections → HypeSquad in Discord housed two things:

1. A personality quiz that sorted you into Bravery, Brilliance, or Balance
2. A Leave HypeSquad button at the bottom for users who wanted to remove the badge

In 2026, Discord pulled the entire tab. The HypeSquad option no longer appears in User Settings on any client — web, desktop, or mobile. New users have no way to join a house through the UI, and existing house members have no way to leave through the UI.

What didn't change: the badges themselves. Anyone who joined a house before the tab was removed kept their badge. And — crucially for this post — the API endpoints behind both the quiz and the "Leave HypeSquad" button kept working.

Why care about removing it? A few common reasons: you took the quiz years ago and don't identify with the result anymore, you want a cleaner profile, you got the badge by accident, or you're cleaning up your account for professional use and don't want personality-quiz cosmetics showing up. Whatever the reason, removing is just as legitimate as joining — and just as easy when you know where the API is.

The endpoint that removes the badge

Discord's API exposes a single endpoint for HypeSquad management:

POST   /api/v9/hypesquad/online    → set house (body: { "house_id": 1|2|3 })
DELETE /api/v9/hypesquad/online    → leave house (no body)

Both endpoints require your Discord auth token in the Authorization header. A successful request returns HTTP 204 with no body. The DELETE clears the HypeSquad house flag from your public_flags bitfield, which is what determines whether the badge appears on your profile.

In other words: the "Leave HypeSquad" button that's gone from the UI was just a button that fired a DELETE /api/v9/hypesquad/online. The endpoint is still live. Anything that fires that request will remove the badge.

Method 1 — The HypeSquad Switcher (one click)

The discord.dog HypeSquad Switcher includes a Remove HypeSquad badge button that calls the DELETE endpoint directly. It's the easiest way to do this without touching DevTools.

Steps:

1. Open discord.dog/tools/hypesquad-switcher
2. Press Ctrl+Shift+B (or ⌘+⇧+B on Mac) to show your bookmarks bar
3. Drag the blurple HypeSquad Switcher button onto your bookmarks bar
4. Go to discord.com/channels/@me and log in
5. Click the new bookmark — a small popup opens inside Discord
6. The popup shows your current house highlighted. Click Remove HypeSquad badge at the bottom.

The badge disappears immediately. If you refresh your Discord profile, it'll be gone. Other users will see the change as soon as their Discord client refreshes your profile (which happens automatically over time, or instantly when they next view it).

The tool's source code is published unminified — you can read every line before clicking anything. Nothing leaves your browser; the tool doesn't run a server, doesn't log requests, doesn't store your token.

Method 2 — DevTools console (no tool, no install)

If you'd rather not use a bookmarklet, you can run the same DELETE request directly from Discord's DevTools console:

fetch("/api/v9/hypesquad/online", {
  method: "DELETE",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": (webpackChunkdiscord_app.push([[Symbol()], {}, r => r])
      .c.find(m => m?.exports?.default?.getToken)?.exports.default.getToken()),
  },
}).then(r => console.log(r.status === 204 ? "✅ HypeSquad badge removed" : "❌ " + r.status));

How to use it:

1. Open Discord in your browser at discord.com/channels/@me
2. Press F12 (or Cmd+Opt+I on Mac) to open DevTools
3. Click the Console tab
4. Paste the snippet above
5. Press Enter

If you see ✅ HypeSquad badge removed, the request succeeded — your badge is gone. If you see a 4xx error code instead, the token grab failed; try Method 1 or check that you're logged into discord.com.

Method 3 — curl from your terminal

If you'd rather do this from a terminal, grab your token from the Discord browser DevTools (Network tab → any request to discord.com/api → the Authorization header in Request Headers) and run:

TOKEN="paste-your-token-here"
curl -X DELETE https://discord.com/api/v9/hypesquad/online \
  -H "Authorization: $TOKEN"

Successful response: HTTP 204 with no body. The badge is now gone.

Token safety: Your Discord token is equivalent to your password — anyone with it can fully control your account. Don't paste it into any tool you don't trust. The bookmarklet and DevTools methods above never transmit your token off your machine; the curl method only sends it to discord.com. Be careful where you copy it.

What happens after removal

• The badge disappears from your public profile immediately. Anyone viewing your profile in Discord, on a third-party viewer like discord.dog, or in any embed sees no HypeSquad badge anymore.
• Your public_flags bitfield is updated. Specifically, the HypeSquad house bits (positions 6, 7, and 8) are cleared. Other flags — Nitro, Active Developer, Early Supporter, etc. — are untouched.
• No other account data changes. Friends, servers, messages, Nitro, OAuth tokens — everything else is unaffected.
• You can re-add the badge any time. Just call POST /api/v9/hypesquad/online with a house_id of 1, 2, or 3 — or use the same HypeSquad Switcher tool. There's no cooldown and no penalty.

A note on rate limiting

Discord rate-limits the HypeSquad endpoints like any other API. Normal usage — removing once, adding once a year later, etc. — won't trip anything. Automated tools that hammer the endpoint can get rate-limited (HTTP 429) and, if egregious, flagged for unusual activity. Don't write loops that call this in tight succession; switch and remove sparingly the way a normal user would.

Wrap-up

Discord removed the in-app way to leave HypeSquad in 2026, but the badge is still removable through the API the old button used to call. The HypeSquad Switcher is the one-click version; DevTools or curl work too if you'd rather avoid third-party scripts.

Changed your mind? See how to get the HypeSquad badge in 2026 or how to switch houses without the quiz. For the full context, see the Discord HypeSquad overview.