Introducing Compact Mode
We’re excited to announce that Compact Mode is now accessible in Recreation Bar for Xbox Insiders. Compact Mode is a brand new expertise that simplifies Recreation Bar, making it extra intuitive and simpler to navigate on small screens, Home windows handhelds, and when taking part in with a controller. To make use of this function, open Recreation Bar, go to the Settings widget, underneath Common, and activate the “Compact Mode” toggle.
Higher navigation on small screens and extra
With Compact Mode enabled, entry to widgets and navigation is simplified to make sure you may get entry to the content material you need as simply as doable. When utilizing a controller, you may swap between widgets shortly with left and proper bumpers (LB/RB).
On the Residence widget, you may view any working video games and not too long ago performed video games. You may as well entry widespread sport launchers put in in your system equivalent to Xbox, Steam, Battle.web, EA Play, Riot Video games, and Ubisoft Join.
Now you can stop a sport that’s working by going to the Residence widget and deciding on the sport and urgent shut, a sooner manner than quitting from the sport or navigating out to Desktop. As well as, you may leverage the Useful resource widget to shortly see what different functions are utilizing your gadget’s sources and shut them.
When the main target is on a widget icon within the navigation, you may open the widget’s settings or shut the widget.
Lastly, you may entry the Widget Retailer and open any put in widget by going to the widgets menu.
The way to entry Compact Mode on Home windows gaming handheld PCs
For gadgets that help customized bodily button mapping, you may map a button to the WIN+G keyboard shortcut. Please discuss with your gadget’s onboarding directions on the way to remap a bodily button. To entry Recreation Bar in your desktop, seek for “Recreation Bar” within the taskbar and proper click on to pin to taskbar.
Share your suggestions
A brand new survey is on the market right here or within the Xbox Insider Hub (open or set up right here for gamers enrolled within the PC Gaming preview) to provide us your suggestions on Compact Mode for Recreation Bar on Home windows PCs whereas it’s on preview. As a reminder, you may all the time give us ideas for the app or go away suggestions by going to the Settings widget, underneath Suggestions, use the Recreation Bar suggestions hyperlink. We sit up for listening to from you as we work to convey extra enhancements to Compact Mode so that you can take pleasure in seamless Xbox gaming experiences throughout all of your Home windows gadgets.
The way to get Xbox Insider help and share your suggestions
In the event you’re an Xbox Insider searching for help, please be part of our neighborhood on the Xbox Insider subreddit. Official Xbox employees, moderators, and fellow Xbox Insiders are there to assist. We suggest including to threads with the identical matter earlier than posting a model new one. This helps us help you the perfect we will! Additionally, you may present direct suggestions to Group Xbox by following the steps right here underneath the “Report an issue on-line” part.
In the event you aren’t a part of the Xbox Insider Program but and wish to assist create the way forward for Xbox and get early entry to new options, be part of the Program at the moment by downloading the Xbox Insider Hub for Xbox Sequence X|S & Xbox One or Home windows PC.
For extra data on the Xbox Insider Program, observe us on Twitter at @XboxInsider. Control future Xbox Insider Launch Notes for extra data relating to the PC Gaming Preview.
Word: This function is being made accessible to Xbox Insiders enrolled within the PC Gaming Preview.
