Welcome To Your New Xbox Dwelling

Beginning right this moment, a brand new Dwelling expertise is rolling out to all Xbox Collection X|S and Xbox One consoles. This replace is designed from participant suggestions and makes it simpler to find new video games, rediscover video games you already love, join with communities, and create a extra customized expertise.

We’re excited to share extra in regards to the journey that led us right here, and what you’ll be able to count on with this new replace.


Your new Xbox Dwelling


1: Makes it simple to go to your Library, the Microsoft Retailer, Xbox Sport Go, Search, and Settings on the very high of your Dwelling by introducing a fast entry menu.

2: Creates more room on your customized background by simplifying the structure and placing the video games you latterly performed and different content material and apps in the direction of the underside of the display screen.

3: Provides an possibility to alter your background to match the sport you might be highlighting within the lately performed record.

4: Improves recreation discovery by introducing lists of video games curated and customized for you.

5: Permits you to customise your expertise by pinning your favourite video games, curated teams, and system teams like Fast Resume to Dwelling.

6: Helps you discover what’s occurring in your group by means of the up to date Mates & Neighborhood Updates row.

7: Exhibits you what media apps and content material can be found to you by way of a Watch & Hear highlight and record of leisure apps


The journey to replace Dwelling


Enhancing the Dwelling Expertise has been really a Group Xbox effort —from engineers to designers to researchers and lots of extra. We began by investing in infrastructure that may permit us to attempt totally different layouts of the web page with totally different content material for various conditions and clients. We then evaluated many alternative parts of the design course of together with what folks work together with within the expertise, how simple it’s for folks to finish the motion they need to take, and the way happy they’re with the general expertise. As soon as we had a model that was able to share, we began to roll it out to our Xbox Insiders.

Once we first confirmed Xbox Insiders what we had been engaged on we heard your suggestions clearly – you needed extra room to point out off customized backgrounds or recreation artwork, faster navigation choices, and extra personalization. Over the past 8 months since preliminary launch, we’ve carried out modifications to fulfill these requests and have a brand new Dwelling that feels recent, places the main focus in your video games and apps, and creates area for stunning backgrounds.


The best way to attempt the brand new Dwelling UI in your Xbox


We’re at present rolling the brand new Dwelling expertise out to a subset of all Xbox consoles. Which means that some clients might want to wait just a few weeks to get their arms on it. Relaxation assured over the following few weeks, it’s coming to a console close to you! When you’re seeing the brand new Dwelling in your console and also you need to customise it to your liking, our information has you lined.

Thanks for all of your suggestions, and your persistence as we constructed your new Xbox Dwelling. We stay up for listening to what you suppose!