When the game enters sleep mode, voice chat is paused to maintain battery life, which is especially useful on mobile devices, and your status is changed to "away" for other party members. By cancelling matchmaking, the game stops searching for new matches, thereby helping to lower power consumption from network activity.

Fortnite has revealed, rather unceremoniously in a throwaway tweet, that the game will now feature a “sleep mode” for players, which certainly isn’t the charming Pokemon Sleep-esque app you might think it is. Here’s everything you need to know about the new Fortnire Sleep Mode.

Takes you closer to the games, movies and TV you love Issues delivered straight to your door or device Fortnite Sleep Mode is a fresh setting that has been added to the game, to save energy for players who are idling or have gone AFK.

The siphon mechanic in Fortnite Battle Royale can easily shake up the way players compete against each other, but how exactly does it work? To make it simpler, Fortnite has a Sleep Mode feature that automatically sets players as away when they've been inactive for more than a couple of minutes.

Sleep Mode is a feature that was introduced to Fortnite with the release of update v31.30, which went live on October 1, 2024. When a player is inactive for a given number of minutes, Sleep Mode will activate, and this turns off Voice Chat, cancels matchmaking, and sets the player's status to Away.