Microsoft is starting to trial caller changes to the Xbox Home UI that volition yet get for everyone successful 2023. The changes volition see tweaks to the layout and plan to marque it easier to find Xbox games and apps oregon navigate to areas similar the settings interface. Microsoft volition behaviour a assortment of Xbox Home experiments implicit the coming months earlier launching its caller Xbox Home UI successful 2023.

“We cognize the Xbox homepage is wherever our gamers walk the astir time, and it’s a abstraction that’s precise personal,” says Ivy Krislov, elder merchandise manager pb of Xbox experiences. “We besides cognize we tin ever beryllium listening and learning however we tin bash amended present portion keeping your acquisition accelerated and familiar. With that, we’re kicking disconnected a multi-month bid of experiments to larn however to make a much personalized location surface acquisition and code immoderate of the apical trends and instrumentality requests.”

A random subset of Xbox Insiders successful the Alpha Skip-Ahead ringing volition get entree to immoderate of the Xbox Home experiments this week. The archetypal circular of preview updates includes a caller “jump backmost in” enactment astatine the apical of Xbox Home that includes the accustomed precocious played games and apps. You’ll announcement (in the screenshot above) that there’s nary longer a bigger tile for the astir precocious utilized app oregon game, and the interface is simply a batch much similar Microsoft’s Xbox TV app.

That Xbox TV app besides has a hunt relation up apical and speedy entree to settings — Microsoft is bringing some to its main Xbox Home console UI. There’s adjacent a pinned tile for entree to the Microsoft Store alongside the accustomed “My games & apps” tile. Unfortunately, the advertisement tile inactive exists and is pinned to the Xbox Home screen.

When you scroll down, Microsoft volition amusement curated categories and recommendations based connected the games you play, and determination should beryllium a much accordant plan passim with improved layouts.

Xbox users person been calling connected Microsoft to redesign its Xbox Home interface for months, with suggestions to absorption connected showing much of the dynamic wallpapers, region the ads, and connection up much customizability for the Xbox Home screen. This redesign doesn’t code each of that rather yet, but determination are months near for much tweaks that could marque it a batch much customizable.

I’d personally similar to beryllium capable to afloat customize the Xbox Home UI, pin apps and games freely up top, and region the static tiles Microsoft forces everyone to have. I tin afloat customize my iPhone homescreen and determination apps, games, and widgets wherever I want, truthful wherefore not let thing akin connected Xbox?

“We privation to guarantee this acquisition is the champion it tin be, and we cognize getting it close volition instrumentality immoderate clip which is wherefore we volition beryllium rolling it retired dilatory and iterating passim the process,” explains Krislov. “With your input, we’re looking guardant to launching this new, amended Home acquisition successful 2023.”

Update, September 8th 11:20AM ET: Article updated to enactment testers volition get entree connected September 9th, not contiguous arsenic an aboriginal transcript of Microsoft’s blog station had indicated.