Xbox Insider: New home page experience for Alpha participants

Xbox Insiders are testing the new Xbox Home experience with new customization options this week.

This week, Xbox Insiders in the Alpha and Alpha Skip Ahead rings are getting a new dashboard update. This includes a new Home Experience for your Xbox console.

The new start page is the latest Insider version, which has been tested by a few participants for weeks. This test is now being expanded because the Xbox team would like your feedback on this.

One wish the team hopes to address in the latest experimental version is customizability for pins, games, and the background. Testers will have new customization options, and soon there will be more for the dashboard background.

Having recently experimented with custom games and groups (including pins), making your content even easier to access with new layouts for featured content. Personalized game lists have also been added to the homepage.

Starting this week, all users in the Alpha Skip-Ahead and Alpha rings can preview the new Home experience. Users will get different layouts of the new interface, while the team hopes to get a lot of feedback on it.

Xbox Insider Preview content

• Various home page layouts grouping user-selected modules for easier access are presented to some players.
• You can now add your top groups to Home and see them when you scroll down for quicker access to the games and apps you choose. You can choose which groups you want on the home screen by going to My games and apps -> Groups -> group name, press the menu button and select “Add to home screen” to see them when you scroll down, to have quicker access to the games and apps you choose.
• For quick access to games and apps, you can add them to Home and view game-related content on the dashboard. You can add up to 10 games, which will then appear among the other new discovery content you can browse. With a game tile highlighted in the dashboard, press the menu button and then select Add to Home to try it out.
• Browse and view your media in a new Watch & Listen Spotlight.
• Next to your entertainment apps are buttons that quickly connect you to collections in the store to find more apps, movies, and more.
• Lists of games from the Xbox Game Pass catalog and the Microsoft Store for Xbox are now selected for you using an algorithm and should become even more relevant when you share your data with Xbox.

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