Microsoft goes to permit Xbox house owners to pin apps and video games on to the House UI. The newest change to homescreen part of the Xbox dashboard will probably be obtainable to Xbox Insiders this week, alongside choices to cover system apps, select the variety of apps and video games listed, and modify the scale of the tiled UI.
You’ll quickly have the ability to pin as much as three of your not too long ago performed video games or apps to the homescreen. “These pins will keep close to the entrance of the checklist as you launch different issues, supplying you with fast entry to your go-to titles,” explains Eden Marie, principal software program engineering lead for Xbox experiences.
In case you don’t wish to see system apps listed on the homescreen you’ll have the ability to disable these to focus solely on video games and apps. In case you actually wish to take customization a step additional, you’ll additionally quickly have the ability to scale back the variety of seen tiles within the not too long ago performed video games and apps checklist. Microsoft says it’s “refining this setting” and it’ll be obtainable to Xbox Insiders quickly.
Microsoft is making these Xbox House interface modifications as a result of followers have requested extra customizability. “We’ve heard from lots of you that House ought to really feel extra like your area,” says Marie. “Whether or not it’s surfacing your favourite video games, hiding what you don’t use, or just making House really feel much less crowded, this replace is a direct response to that suggestions.”
Microsoft beforehand examined an enormous overhaul of the Xbox House UI in 2022, earlier than transport it broadly to Xbox house owners in 2023. The software program maker made extra room for backgrounds, fast entry to video games, the shop, and settings as a part of the UI overhaul.
