Voice Chat allows you to hear and speak to other players. In the pre-game Lobby, all players with Voice Chat enabled can communicate with each other. However, you can typically only hear or speak to other players on your team in team-based matches, though some exceptions apply. See more about these exceptions below.

Voice Chat Settings

You can access a variety of Voice Chat options within the Settings menu.

1. Open the main menu and navigate to Settings.
2. Select Audio.
3. Select the Voice Chat tab.

Here, you can adjust several Voice Chat features:

• Voice Chat Volume: Set the volume of your voice chat output.
• Voice Chat: When enabled, allows you to hear and speak to other players.
• Proximity Chat*: When enabled, allows you to hear and speak to nearby opponents during a match.
• Body Shield Chat*: When enabled, allows you to hear and speak to opponents when Body Shield is applied.
• Last Words Voice Chat*: When enabled, your opponent hears your last words via voice chat after an elimination.
• Game Chat Voice: Allows you to choose who you communicate with via Voice Chat. (Note that these options, as well as Proximity Chat, can also be accessed by selecting Voice at the bottom of the screen in the pre-game Lobby.)
  • All Lobby: Communicate with all players in the Game Chat Channel.
  • Party Only: Only communicate with players in your current Party.
  • Friends Only: Only communicate with players on your Friends List.
  • Friends & Chat Channels: Only communicate with players on your Friends List and players from all your Chat Channels.

* Your Game Voice Chat setting must be set to All Lobby for these options to work.

If you wish to mute a player’s Voice Chat, you can do so in the pre-game Lobby or during a match.

These muting options are temporary and will apply to your current play session. Beginning a new play session will reset your muting choices.

Please note: Muting a player will also prevent them from hearing you.

Muting in the pre-game Lobby

1. Highlight the player in the Player List.
2. Press Select.
3. Select Mute.

When more than one player is in the pre-game Lobby, you can also choose to mute the entire Lobby. Select Voice at the bottom of the screen to open a menu where you can choose Mute All (applies to the upcoming match only). This menu also allows you to turn Proximity Chat on or off, as well as select specific groups you can interact with via Voice Chat.

Muting during a match

1. Open the Scoreboard (View on Xbox, Touchpad on PlayStation, TAB on PC).
2. Highlight the player.
3. Select Toggle Mute to mute or unmute the player.

Press and hold the button in Step 1 above to open a different menu, where Voice Chat for the entire Lobby can be turned on or off. You can further manage your options through the Voice Chat tab within the Audio section of the game’s Settings.

Text Chat allows you to send text-based messages to other players. You can access the following Text Chat options in the Account & Network section of the Settings menu.

• Enabled (On): Allows Text Chat within the Game Chat and your Chat Channels.
• My Chat Channels Only: Allows Text Chat within your Chat Channels only.
• Disabled (Off): Prevents Text Chat within the Game Chat and your Chat Channels.

Chat Channels provide a place for you to communicate with other players in the channel across recent Call of Duty games.

Chat Channels can be managed through the Chat section of the main menu.

1. Open the main menu.
2. Navigate to the Chat (headphones icon) section.

Creating a Chat Channel

Select Create Chat Channel from within the Chat section of the main menu. Then, choose the name of your Chat Channel and select Done.

Once your Chat Channel is created, you can invite others to join.

1. Highlight and select your Chat Channel.
2. Select Invite to Chat Channel.
3. Select players from your Friends, Chat Channels, or Recents lists to send them an invite to your Chat Channel.
   • You may invite a maximum of 16 players to a Chat Channel.

Open the Chat Channel settings to adjust the channel’s Privacy Settings.

• Open: Anyone in the Chat Channel can change the channel’s settings.
• Closed: Only the Chat Channel owner can change the channel’s settings.

Connecting to a Chat Channel

You can also connect to other Chat Channels you’ve been invited to through this menu option. Note that you may only connect to one Chat Channel at a time.

You can choose to block players from communicating and interacting with you in the game. Players will remain blocked unless you choose to unblock them.

When a player is blocked, it will restrict all communication options and invites between you and the player, and will remove the player from your Activision Friends List, if applicable. Blocking a player will not remove them from your platform account’s Friends lists.

Blocking in the pre-game Lobby

1. Highlight the player in the Player list.
2. Press Select.
3. Select Block Player.

Blocking during a match

1. Open the Scoreboard (View on Xbox, Touchpad on PlayStation, TAB on PC).
2. Highlight the player.
3. Select View Profile.
4. Select Block Player.

Blocking through the Social Menu

1. Open the Social menu.
2. Highlight the player from a list on the Party & Friends or Recent tab.
3. Press Select.
4. Select Block Player.

You can view and manage blocked players through the Social menu. 

1. Open the Social menu.
2. Go to the Recent tab.
3. Highlight and select Blocked Players.
   • A player can be unblocked by highlighting them in the list and selecting Unblock.

You can also manage your Blocked Players list in the Account & Network section of the Settings menu.