{"id":1344062,"date":"2024-04-11T14:21:50","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T11:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/windowsreport.com\/?p=1344062"},"modified":"2024-04-12T07:18:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T04:18:07","slug":"xbox-users-really-want-microsoft-to-do-something-about-the-consoles-home-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/windowsreport.com\/xbox-users-really-want-microsoft-to-do-something-about-the-consoles-home-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"Xbox users really want Microsoft to do something about the console&#8217;s home screen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s been almost a year since Microsoft introduced <a href=\"https:\/\/windowsreport.com\/new-xbox-dashboard-2023\/\">a new home screen for Xbox<\/a> to the community, and users are not entirely pleased with it. The new UI is more spacey, and at first look, it doesn&#8217;t appear to be overcrowded. It looks clean and spacious, and very intuitive to use, but despite this, many users agree that it lacks originality. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s also not customizable, which angers a lot of people from the Xbox community, including this user <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/XboxSeriesX\/comments\/1bxq9jm\/microsoft_should_give_us_more_control_over_our\/\">who took it to Reddit<\/a> to express their disappointment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>As a massive fan of console menus, I must say that the current UI is really not that great. I\u2019ve always thought that Microsoft should let us have more control over them. Even just simple things like being able to pin games to the bar, or controlling the order of tabs, to larger things like letting us toggle on\/off home music, or allowing us to change the way the guide looks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I really want to be able to have more control over the way my home menu looks. It\u2019s just kinda flat and has zero personality as of now.<\/p>\n<cite>Reddit user<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-reddit wp-block-embed-reddit\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"reddit-embed-bq\" style=\"height:316px\" ><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/XboxSeriesX\/comments\/1bxq9jm\/microsoft_should_give_us_more_control_over_our\/\">Microsoft should give us more control over our home menus. <\/a><br> by<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/elytraman\/\">u\/elytraman<\/a> in<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/XboxSeriesX\/\">XboxSeriesX<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.reddit.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As the Reddit post has gotten more popular, other Xbox users expressed their anger at Microsoft for not only taking away their power to customize and personalize the home screen, but also splashing it with ads every time the Redmond-based tech giant has the chance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>Everyone was talking about ads upon login a year or so ago and I never saw one, thought they were crazy. I finally got one today that popped up before my home screen loaded. It made me irrationally angry.<\/p>\n<cite>Reddit user<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>how are they gonna push ads?!<\/p>\n<cite>Reddit user<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>100%, I hate the new UI, full of bloat that I don&#8217;t care about and no ability to remove it.<\/p>\n<cite>Reddit user<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Xbox users are also disappointed that Microsoft doesn&#8217;t consider their feedback about the home screen. Despite dozens of similar opinions about it, the Xbox Insider Program ignores it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>We\u2019re asking for this every week at Insiders but they keep ignoring it.<\/p>\n<cite>Reddit user<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>Everywhere where they &#8220;take feedback&#8221; from insiders from the Insider Program they are getting spammed with actual good feedback about the homescreen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They never actually really care about the feedback. Not just about the homescreen, but in general. They don&#8217;t even ask important questions anymore through their app, the last couple of weeks they asked what type of pizza toppings we prefer. Yes, i am 100% serious.<\/p>\n<cite>Reddit user<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The Redmond-based tech giant recently released<a href=\"https:\/\/windowsreport.com\/microsoft-finally-added-game-hubs-to-the-xbox-app-for-pc-after-teasing-it-earlier-this-year\/\"> Game Hubs to the Xbox App for PC<\/a>, which is a new platform meant to improve the gaming experience, and along with the new Game Hubs, the company also said it will gradually release a new sub-navigation experience allowing users to choose from different new settings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, these changes are all coming to the Xbox App for PC, which ironically are not intended for the console, yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The users&#8217; anger is justified, and Microsoft should indeed give back some customization options to the Xbox community. Some even agreed that Microsoft can keep an area for ads if the company sees fit, but users should at least get to personalize their Xbox experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What do you think about it? Do you think Microsoft had taken it too far?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been almost a year since Microsoft introduced a new home screen for Xbox to the community, and users are not entirely pleased with it. The new UI is more spacey, and at first look, it doesn&#8217;t appear to be overcrowded. 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