How Do I Have My Xbox Status Showing As Last Seen Even When I’m Online?

Hi, my name is Julian and I'm an Xbox gamer just like you. Let's try to solve your issue together.

What you're seeing is likely due to privacy settings or network issues causing a delay in Xbox Live status updates. Sometimes, if someone sets their online status to "Appear offline" or has specific privacy settings applied, it can show them as "Last seen playing..." even if they’re online.

Here are the steps to try it:

1) Set your status to "Appear offline". Press the Xbox button > Profile & system > your profile > Appear offline.

2) Adjust your privacy settings. Go to https://login.live.com/

> Xbox privacy > View details & customize > Online status & history. You can set who sees if you're online or what you're playing.

More details here https://support.xbox.com/en-US/help/family-onli...

Let me know if you need further assistance.

I looked there, the only option under Online Safety Settings choosing custom is Online Status, which blocks you completely from being seen online. I want to be seen online just dont want my "last online 2 hours ago" showing

Yes, I am speaking from personal experience. I have had someone tell me the same thing about my 'last online' message changing, which made them in-turn think they had just missed me. And I have seen the same thing happen to my friends' last online message
as well. And, as I pointed out in my previous message, when I went/go to Xbox.com to see said friends latest activity, it shows as "Last Online at so-and-so ago on Xbox.com". The same thing happens every time you send a text message over the Xbox.com website.
Also. I changed my online status to appearing offline on the console and also just logged out and logged back in to Xbox.com, and my status changed here on the website from "Last online/seen so-and-so minutes ago playing Dead Space 2" to "Last seen so-and-so
minutes ago playing Xbox.com" So, all-in-all judging by your second post, I suspect this is what happened. =)

Thank you for the response. I clicked that link and it shows my status as "Blocked". So then what you are saying is that even though when I push the middle button and look at my "online status" it has the bullet by default next to "online" selected, that
in actuality no one can see me because my website settings override it? So then I do not have to manually set the bullet to show me as "offline" everything I do not want my status known? I will check with a friend tomorrow to see if they see me. Thanks!

I’m not sure what the issue is here exactly. You made this account and when I view the profile for this account it says it was last seen online on the home screen.