Disable Display Names in New TextChatService

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#1

When chatting, the chat shows the player’s display name along with their message. However, my goal is to display the player’s username instead of their display name.

Unlike LegacyChatService, I cannot fork scripts made by the service itself. In the old version of chat, there is an option to disable display names within the scripts.

Is there any way to disable display names in the new TextChatService? I’ve skimmed through its properties and have found no option to disable it.

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#2

Unfortunately for us, Roblox didn’t add this as a toggle, so we’ll have to intercept every incoming message and replace it before it’s actually sent. We can do this with the TextChatService service and the OnIncomingMessage event.

game:GetService("TextChatService").OnIncomingMessage = function(message: TextChatMessage)
	local properties = Instance.new("TextChatMessageProperties")

	if message.TextSource then
		local player = game.Players:GetPlayerByUserId(message.TextSource.UserId)
		if player then
			properties.PrefixText = `{player.Name}:`
		end
	end

	return properties
end

Using the new TextChatService, this code, whilst in a LocalScript inside StarterPlayerScripts will switch it from kie to kielikescats in my instance. Hope this helps!

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