Determining whether Discord is down or it's your internet connection is fairly easy to do. Mainly, you'll want to see whether there are other reports of people having issues launching the application.

Discord keeps pushing updates from time to time to improve the features and security of the application. However, if at times, Discord won’t update on your Windows system, here’s what you can do.

If Discord is stuck on the CHECKING FOR UPDATES screen, then these suggestions are sure to help you fix the problem on your Windows 11/10 PC.