Freezing Channels

Freezing a channel prevents users from sending new messages and adding or deleting reactions.

Sending a message to a frozen channel returns an error message. Attempting to add or delete reactions returns a 403 Not Allowed error.

User roles with the UseFrozenChannel permission can still use frozen channels normally. By default, no user role has this permission.

Freeze a Channel

await channel.FreezeAsync();

Unfreeze a Channel

await channel.UnfreezeAsync();

Granting the Frozen Channel Permission

Permissions are typically managed in the Stream Dashboard under your app's Roles & Permissions settings. This is the recommended approach for most use cases.

To grant permissions programmatically, update the channel type using a server-side API call. See user permissions for more details.

// For security reasons, granting channel permissions is only possible via a server-side SDK