Roblox chat button is still visible when chat is disabled

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starterGui:SetCoreGuiEnabled(Enum.CoreGuiType.Chat, false) does not remove the chat icon

Hey! If anyone else is still having problems, I’ve released a faithful recreation of TextChatService that addresses this issue. OpenTextChatService - Open-Source Implementation of TextChatService. This is on top of a bunch of other bugs and performance issues with TextChatService that I’ve addressed. If that isn’t your jam, the following snippet is a simplified version of what I have included in my resource. Just place a local script in ReplicatedFirst and any calls you make with SetCoreGuiEnabl…

If anyone is still having issues the following snippet should solve your problem. Just place it in ReplicatedFirst.

--//===================== Services =====================-//-
local StarterGui = game:GetService("StarterGui")

--//===================== Utility =====================-//-
local GetCoreGuiEnabled = function(coreGuiType: Enum.CoreGuiType) : boolean
	return StarterGui:GetCoreGuiEnabled(coreGuiType)
end

local SetCoreGuiEnabled = function(coreGuiType: Enum.CoreGuiType, enabled: boolean): ()
	StarterGui:SetCoreGuiEnabled(coreGuiType, enabled)
end

local GetCore = function(paramaterName: string): any
	local s = false
	local v
	repeat s = pcall(function() v = StarterGui:GetCore(paramaterName) end) if not s then task.wait() end until s
	return v
end

local SetCore = function(paramaterName: string, value: any): ()
	local s = false
	repeat s = pcall(function() StarterGui:SetCore(paramaterName, value) end) if not s then task.wait() end until s
end

--//===================== CoreGuiChatConnections =====================-//-
local chatWindowVisibilityChangedBindable = Instance.new("BindableEvent")
local chatWindowVisibilityChanged = chatWindowVisibilityChangedBindable.Event
local chatWindowVisibilityBindable = Instance.new("BindableEvent")
local chatWindowVisibility = chatWindowVisibilityBindable.Event
local messagesChangedBindable = Instance.new("BindableEvent")
local messagesChanged = messagesChangedBindable.Event

local db = 2
local VisibilityChanged = function()
	local active = GetCore("ChatActive")
	local coreGuiEnabled = GetCoreGuiEnabled(Enum.CoreGuiType.Chat)
	local visible = active and coreGuiEnabled
	chatWindowVisibilityBindable:Fire(visible)
	if visible then messagesChangedBindable:Fire(-1) end
	if db < 2 then db += 1 return end
	db = 0
	SetCoreGuiEnabled(Enum.CoreGuiType.Chat, not coreGuiEnabled)
	SetCoreGuiEnabled(Enum.CoreGuiType.Chat, coreGuiEnabled)
end

chatWindowVisibilityChanged:Connect(VisibilityChanged)
SetCore("CoreGuiChatConnections", {["ChatWindow"] = {["ToggleVisibility"] = chatWindowVisibilityChangedBindable, ["SetVisible"] = chatWindowVisibilityChangedBindable, ["TopbarEnabledChanged"] = chatWindowVisibilityChangedBindable, ["CoreGuiEnabled"] = chatWindowVisibilityChangedBindable, ["VisibilityStateChanged"] = chatWindowVisibilityBindable, ["MessagesChanged"] = messagesChangedBindable}})
VisibilityChanged()