Auto Downloading Games

Crazie Irish · Jun 3, 2021

The last number of days or so my Xbox One X has been auto downloading games from Game Pass. Either games I have played on a different Xbox One or have never tried.

I woke this morning and found the new MLB game redownloading (which I had already downloaded) and Day of the Tentacle Remastered as well. I have played both games and have had them both previously downloaded.

I just want to know how to stop the games from auto downloading... Last week it was two games I had never played. I'm getting tired of waking each morning and having to delete games I never requested to download.

How can I turn this "feature" off?

I do have auto update turned on to keep my games up to date, but again these aren't updating games on my system. These are full downloads. Would this even play a role?

:)

maxen

As Smwutches says, the friend can still play the games on his own console - providing he has an active Live connection.

However, he cannot play them offline and he is the only profile on his own console that can play them (on your console, any profile can play the games he owns). It would be in his interest to make his own console his Home Xbox.

If he does change his Home Xbox, it will prevent games from auto-downloading to your console in future. It will NOT remove the already-downloaded ones from your console's hard drive, but the next time you loaded them up it would ask you to either buy digitally
or insert a disc to continue playing.

ShayD Bear

thanks and yes i did have a friend log onto my xbox. does this me the games he is downloading he is not able to play on his xbox cause i can play on mine ?

maxen

Any chance that you either have a refurbished unit, bought it second-hand or other people have signed into their own accounts to play on your console?

In one of these cases, someone used their profile on your console which made your console their Home Xbox. Now, this person has a new console and is buying games for it; however, because yours is their Home Xbox, the games are *also* downloading to your
console.

If you know whose account might be causing this, notify them to go to Settings>Home Xbox on their own console and make that their Home Xbox. This will stop the sudden and unexpected downloads on your own console.

Smwutches

Does anyone else use the console? Games will automatically download to your Home console, but you have to start the download. If someone else has your console set as their Home, it could be downloading games they're installing.

Smwutches

He will be able to play his games on his console while he's signed into Live, but he won't be able to share the games with anyone else on his console. If he sets his console as his Home console, it will remove the games from yours.

Auto Downloading Games