New Xbox Home UI now available for everyone

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[cousinchris]

The game art background needs to be it's own separate toggle. It should work with every background by choice. I have it and I like it other than that

[LordBeef]

I am a legitimately positive person and generally a huge advocate for the Xbox ecosystem.
That being said, this update is honestly offensive. I pay for my Xbox. I pay for games on my Xbox. I pay for Xbox game pass ultimate. Stop. With. The. Advertising. It’s beyond obnoxious, it’s actually offensive. My Microsoft Windows pc doesn’t do this to me. My freaking iPhone from freaking Apple doesn’t do this to me. PlayStation doesn’t do this to their players. Xbox didn’t do this (except for those stupid two-three tiles under the recently played) until now. This is awful.

Pros of update:
- icons in groups are bigger and have a nice glow
- no huge pin icon on groups that squishes the actual games to the side
- I can see more of my background at the very top
- the friends & community section is smaller

That’s it.

Cons (listed from top of home to bottom)
- My games and apps tile replaced by store tile (ad). There is already a store shortcut on the top of the dashboard and at the quick guide — Are you freaking kidding me with this?
- Non removable „recently added - game pass“ row — and it’s HUGE.
- Only two groups allowed. That’s just ridiculous and completely inexcusable. Let me have the 5 (or however many I want) groups I had before.
- Non removable friends and community row.
- Non removable „most popular - game pass“ ads section. Again, I pay for game pass. I use it a lot, and try our new games. I check out the game pass tabs via the shortcut in the guide and I could use the one at the top. See my comment about the store tile.
- Non removable „coming to game pass“ ads section. See above.
- Non removable „optimized for series x|s - game pass“ ad section. This one is even bigger and more obtrusive than the others. See above.
- Non removable „top entertainment apps“ ads section. See above. Also, I have all of these already downloaded! What the crap?! I had all of these (and more) in a group called „watch“ that I had pinned to my home (again, the two group limit really sucks) and which I frequently used. This also has extra ads for apps with free trials, top movie rentals, and movies and tv specials.
- Non removable „Ubisoft“ ads section. I WILL BUY UBISOFT GAMES IF I WANT AND I WON’T IF I DON’T WANT TO. GET THEM OFF MY HOLE SCREEN, IT’S *MY* HOME SCREEN ON THE XBOX THAT *I* PAYED FOR, NOT UBISOFT’S, AND NOT MICROSOFT’S!!! See above.
- Non removable „Xbox Games specials“ ads section. See above.
- Non removable „Watch and listen“ ads section. See above. Again, it’s freaking huge, and again, I ALREADY HAD A GROUP FOR THIS.
- Non removable „Leaving Soon - Game Pass“ ads section. See above. Again, I pay for game pass. Leave that to the little (though they got bigger) ad tiles at the top.
- Non removable „Optimized for Xbox Series X|S“ ads section. See above.
- Non removable „Captivating stories“ ads section. See above.
- Non removable „Multiplayer games“ ads section. See above.

This is entirely and absolutely unacceptable. We deserve better. This is beyond absurd.
To recap, there are 13 rows of ads that cannot be removed, some of which are bigger and more obtrusive than others. There are, with groups, about 5 rows of games (the game tiles in a group get smaller as you add more). Who’s Home Screen is this? It’s obviously not mine, so Microsoft should please kick out the home intruder who’s invaded the hardware and software I payed for.

[I_duo]

Why? WHY?!? Don’t they just give us the option to remove stuff from the U.I as we want ?…..🤨🙄😒

[jhnyjoejoe]

I thought i would love it. But i hate it. BIG opportunities missed and im sure who ever is in charge of the UI designing deliberately does it to keep having a job.
The top icons should have worked like the 360 and be able to switch between them using the Left and Right bumper.
Now we got these annoying Game Pass tiles scathered everywhere instead of just in 1 place.

Can't even customize it anymore like before.

[SABRTRONTv]

It's a disgrace honestly, surely if we have paid for gamepass then there should be an option to remove ads??

[daviddamasceno]

It's definitely better than the first pic that popped up, with those giant tiles, but I still feel very unconfortable with the ammount of tiles that are poluting the UI. Yeah, you can see your wallpaper, but all the clutter is still there. Feels like a windows desktop full of icons that you're never allowed to delete, it's annoying. Feels like I never owned this console, I just rented it from MS. Ideally, the user should never see an ad outside the store app, and should never see a game pass game sugestion unless he/she opens the game pass app.

[moralesjourneyman]

Imagine turning on your computer one day and seeing that your desktop is suddenly full of crap like Fortnight. When you wanted to remove all the adware and customise it to your own liking, you couldn't do that.

That's what's happened with the new Xbox UI.

[Cheezeburgher]

the best part is that it seems to actually run smooth now. the old ui would get stuck and would slow down a lot

[crowgoblin]

Why did they remove the ability to move tiles on the dashboard, you now have to go into the customise groups to move anything.

[CyberPunkGamer]

The ads need to be made smaller and i'll be happy

[stephe.n]

For the longest time, microsoft has thought it knows what you want, with a continuous feed of content(tm). Just my opinion but them trying to sell you on things constantly makes it feel less "premium".

[TheRealDJSigma]

So what customisability is there? I understand you can have 2 groups of pins, but is that it? You can't remove or re-order anything else? I haven't had the update pushed out to my Xbox yet.

[mikelissirons]

i don't have new xbox update. does anyone else have the same problem?

[kingofkingz]

Wrong title for this video, this update is not available to everyone yet

[nickyday]

I don't like not having my pins at the top so was easier to get to my games and apps

[slartyfretwerk]

I'm capable of making my own choices, I don't want my hand held, I don't need suggestions. I don't want to be force fed rubbish I'm not interested in.
This new interface looks like a committee made cash grab advert.
Not impressed

[shinramiddlemanager]

It's terrible -- I don't use backgrounds, resent the ads and liked having four pinned groups that organised my collection by XSX/XB1/360/OG ( and one for media apps) -- but there's nothing we can do about it. They won't change course.

I suppose from now on I'll just go straight to the Games group and select what to play/apps through there. No more groups on the homepage (what's the point with only one allowed if you also use quick resume?) I won't be scrolling down off that first page much to see their ad spam.

I wonder if pointless things like Settings still take up a tile on the 'recently used' bar when I'd prefer it just be my last 9 launched games/media apps.

[Victoriacernysmith]

Almost 2 weeks. And I still don’t have this update!!

[Shoobybuhdooby]

If I want all these suggestions I’ll go browse the store

[ExiledAgentD]

Getting ads for deodorant in bottom right of home screen, i didn't buy a series x to see ads on my home screen and all the crap below