diff --git a/src/status_im/ui/screens/desktop/main/tabs/profile/styles.cljs b/src/status_im/ui/screens/desktop/main/tabs/profile/styles.cljs
index 3edbf0e71b..79968654cd 100644
--- a/src/status_im/ui/screens/desktop/main/tabs/profile/styles.cljs
+++ b/src/status_im/ui/screens/desktop/main/tabs/profile/styles.cljs
@@ -163,6 +163,10 @@
   {:margin        24
    :font-size     20})
 
+(def connection-message-text
+  {:margin-left   24
+   :margin-bottom 10})
+
 (def title-separator
   {:height            1
    :background-color  colors/gray-light})
diff --git a/src/status_im/ui/screens/desktop/main/tabs/profile/views.cljs b/src/status_im/ui/screens/desktop/main/tabs/profile/views.cljs
index bac10be7ab..9ab45661fd 100644
--- a/src/status_im/ui/screens/desktop/main/tabs/profile/views.cljs
+++ b/src/status_im/ui/screens/desktop/main/tabs/profile/views.cljs
@@ -84,15 +84,37 @@
    [pairing.views/sync-devices]
    [pairing.views/installations-list installations]])
 
+(defn connection-status
+  "generates a composite message of the current connection state given peer and mailserver statuses"
+  [peers-count node-status mailserver-state peers-disconnected?]
+  ;; TODO probably not ideal criteria for searching
+  ;; ask about directly calling rpc method to find discovery.started
+  (let [searching?            (= :starting node-status)
+        peers-connected?      (not peers-disconnected?)
+        mailserver-connected? (= :connected mailserver-state)]
+    (cond
+      (and peers-connected? searching?)                  "Connected and searching"
+      (and peers-connected? (not mailserver-connected?)) (str "Connected with " peers-count " peers")
+      (and peers-connected? mailserver-connected?)       (str "Connected with " peers-count " peers including mailserver.")
+      (and peers-disconnected? searching?)               "Disconnected and searching"
+      :else                                              "Disconnected")))
+
 (views/defview advanced-settings []
   (views/letsubs [installations    [:pairing/installations]
                   current-mailserver-id [:mailserver/current-id]
-                  mailservers           [:mailserver/fleet-mailservers]]
-    (let [render-fn (offline-messaging.views/render-row current-mailserver-id)]
+                  mailservers           [:mailserver/fleet-mailservers]
+                  mailserver-state      [:mailserver/state]
+                  node-status           [:node-status]
+                  peers-count           [:peers-count]
+                  disconnected          [:disconnected?]]
+    (let [render-fn (offline-messaging.views/render-row current-mailserver-id)
+          connection-message      (connection-status peers-count node-status mailserver-state disconnected)]
       [react/scroll-view
        [react/text {:style styles/advanced-settings-title
                     :font  :medium}
         (i18n/label :advanced-settings)]
+       [react/view
+        [react/text {:style styles/connection-message-text} connection-message]]
        [react/view {:style styles/title-separator}]
        [react/text {:style styles/mailserver-title} (i18n/label :offline-messaging)]
        [react/view
diff --git a/src/status_im/ui/screens/subs.cljs b/src/status_im/ui/screens/subs.cljs
index 12cbe056b1..565d04dcd1 100644
--- a/src/status_im/ui/screens/subs.cljs
+++ b/src/status_im/ui/screens/subs.cljs
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@
 (reg-sub :sync-state :sync-state)
 (reg-sub :network-status :network-status)
 (reg-sub :peers-count :peers-count)
+(reg-sub :node-status :node/status)
 
 (reg-sub :disconnected?
          :<- [:peers-count]