Microsoft is tinkering with the 'Games & Apps' section on Xbox

Xbox Games and Apps Source: Windows Central

The Xbox Insider programme has endured a pretty lengthy cycle, partially attributable to the rollout of Xbox Game Streaming (now available to all Xbox Insiders), and partially due to the Christmas season. Throughout, Microsoft has been making lots of tweaks here and there to the dashboard, removing the horizontal segmenting of the dashboard into a vertical, customizable stream, for example. Now, Microsoft is also looking to modify the way the Games & Apps section displays downloads and updates.

Xbox Games and Apps Source: Windows Central

The latest update to the Xbox Alpha Ring shifts some of the sidebar options into their ain section, as seen in a higher place. From there, you can navigate your entire library and apps, alongside Xbox Game Pass titles, Games with Gold, and fifty-fifty EA Access if you're part of that service.

Xbox Source: Windows Central

Below that, there's also a new "Manage" section, which provides quick access to options previously hidden away in the settings menu. You lot can quickly manage storage, gratis upwardly space, admission updates, and toggle on automatic updates, and remote installations.

Installing a game from any source gives you a more detailed prompt, which is something Microsoft has been using for Xbox Game Pass titles for a while now. You go this section regardless of where you're choosing to install games from now, though, giving you a fleck more detail on the title in question.

In one case you've hit install, it appears in the queue section which looks familiar to the previous queue accessible from the sidebar. Either way, y'all'll all the same be able to see the download progressing in the sidebar, above the storage allocation circle in the lesser left.

Anecdotally, it seems that by segmenting off the "full library" list into its own section has made the initial load speed of the Games & Apps tool a piffling bit quicker, perchance since it doesn't take to pull your licenses down from the cyberspace unless you're choosing to admission them.

Equally usual, Microsoft is taking feedback on the new Games & Apps department in the Xbox Insider Hub, if you want to offer your thoughts on it. If you're non in the programme, drib your thoughts in the comments below.

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