Home Experiment Group B

In July we introduced Xbox Insiders to an evolving Home experience. Xbox engineers have taken
user research and feedback to create a faster Xbox One Home dashboard! We know you’re curious what these experiments have all been about, and we have info on new updates happening now!

Why We Are Experimenting

Xbox engineers are seeking feedback and support from Xbox Insiders to ensure each iteration of Home is fast, responsive, and easy to use.

The removal of tabs (or as we call them, “twists”) in August allowed Xbox engineers to focus on improving memory and performance with an easier to navigate Xbox One Home dashboard. In September we introduced more tiles that linked users to features across
the console such as Game Pass, the Store, and Mixer. Users were also given the functionality to change and move around visible tiles to customize the dashboard for their needs!

These previous releases were in smaller waves unlike other features released to Xbox Insiders. Xbox engineers had the chance to understand how the Xbox community used the Xbox One Home dashboard and how it can be improved. These changes opened many doors
for us, and it’s gotten our creative juices flowing! Our goal is to give you the optimum experience on Xbox One—from startup to shut down.

What’s Next for the Xbox One Home Dashboard

Xbox engineers were performing “AB” experiments in previous releases. This means that a random selection of our Xbox Insider audience received the new changes, while others were the control group with the standard Home experience.

We are doing things a little differently with this next phase, starting with what we call “ABC” experiments. Three groups are randomly selected for two versions of Home experiments, while a third group is our control group.

This new phase starts today, Thursday, October 17th! Xbox Insiders from
Alpha and Alpha Skip-Ahead are eligible for these Home experiments and may see the changes with the latest preview update.

• Alpha Skip-Ahead users should update to their latest preview OS build, which will be made available at 2 p.m. PT today, before determining if you have the new Home experience. (Release notes found
  
  here.)

• Alpha’s preview update from
  yesterday has prepared Alpha devices for this new phase. Try
  power cycling the Xbox One console before determining if you have the new Home experience.

“ABC” Experiments for Home

Group A will see four new content blocks for what the twists were previously. This dashboard will look similar to previous Home experiments.

Group B will have a single button under their main dashboard tile for My Games & Apps, rather than the four content blocks Group A will experience.

Note: Changes to tiles during previous Home experiments do not carry over with new iterations.

Those in Group C (our control group) are just as important in this process! You’re providing us data on the current performance of the Xbox One Home dashboard we all see today. Your data shows how successful our work is for you.

Each step we take with the Xbox One Home dashboard allows us to adjust the placement and user-friendliness of buttons and tiles, increase visibility of console features, optimize dashboard and menu commands, and transform Home into the hub for all things
Xbox! Groups A and B are chosen at random from select Xbox One Update Preview rings. The Xbox Insider Team cannot influence who is chosen for these feature releases.

What preview ring am I in?

Follow these steps to find out which preview ring your console is enrolled into:

• Launch the Xbox Insider Hub on your Xbox One console
• Select Insider content
• Choose System, then select Xbox One Update Preview
• Select Manage
• Your current preview ring will be displayed there

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2019/10...-xbox-one-home-dashboard/#btB68zH82uwM0mWT.99

Saw this shared on Twitter, and figured it'd be a good idea to pass it along here too because I know some are Insiders and they are looking forward to the new UI.

Thank you very much for posting this, as an Xbox Insider I love testing these new features

Hello Aaron da gamer,

Welcome to Xbox Forums.

We appreciate you for posting your concern with us and we truly understand how you wanted to modify your Xbox Series X home screen. Let us check and see what we can do best to help you address your concern today.

There's one more way to customize a major aspect of your Xbox Series X/S, when you add a game to Home, you can access it easily and review related content including community activity feed posts and how you rank against your friends.

Note: You can add up to 10 games to Home.

To add a game to Home:

1. Highlight a game from the Microsoft Store, my games & apps, or a game that's displayed somewhere on your home screen.
   
2. Press the Menu button, and then select Add to Home.
   

There are two ways you can remove a game tile from your home screen:

• Highlight the game, press the Menu button, and then select Remove from home.
  
• Go to where the game appears on your home screen, and then select the Edit icon. You can highlight the game from the list, and then press the X button to remove it.
  

On the other hand, you can group your games and apps to quickly access them from My games & apps or your home screen. To learn more about creating and managing groups, visit: Group your games and apps on your Xbox console

To add a group to home:

1. Press Xbox button to open the guide, and then select My games & apps.
   
2. Select Group, and then highlight the name of one of your existing groups.
   
3. Press the Menu button, and then select add to home.
   

Review the info in "reorder tiles or groups" for more details about the placement of groups on the home screen.

Your groups will appear above your pinned games on Home. To reorder how your groups appear on the home screen, add the groups to your home screen in reverse order. For example, if you'd like for a group to appear at the top, make sure to add it to home last.

Note: Managing the order of your groups from within My games & apps will not affect how they appear on the home screen.

After you've added games to home, you can reorder how they appear. To do so:

1. Go to where the game appears on your home screen, and then select the edit icon.
   
2. Highlight the game that you want to move from the list, and then press the A button.
   
3. Use the Direction pad (D-pad) to change the position of the selected game.
   
4. Press the A button again to confirm the move.
   

Source: Manage content on your Home screen

You may also want to check this links for additional information that you may want to apply on your device.

Personalize your console Home screen and profile

Find your games and add-onsHow to filter games and apps in the Microsoft Store on your Xbox console

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Also got a new update yesterday. Dashboard is completely different now. Liking it so far.

Did you get into Group A or B? And what do you think so far?

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...eriments/88bc14a8-0e95-4dbc-ab4b-124506a838ed

The Entertainment tab was removed and currently the tabs are Home, Mixer, Community, Game Pass and Store.

You can pin any of your entertainment apps so you have them easily to access by creating a group and adding them to you home tab. Info and steps can be found
here.

I had the new dashboard. Underneath the large box that shows the last game/app you used there used to be another box with those 4 items in, now all it shows is my games and apps. I hope that makes more sense

That is Group B of the new Dashboard experiment that I thought was only on Insider rings at this present moment. The dashboard with the 4 items together is Group A and the original Dashboard is Group C, the control group.

Group B is the favourite as you can arrange the Dashboard to your own preferences.