Home Screen Clutter

apostrophil · Jul 27, 2023

The Xbox dashboard update went through and now we can’t remove categories from the Dashboard. It’s littered with advertisements and categories that can’t be removed. This is a serious downgrade in my opinion. We should still have the option to filter out items we don’t want to scroll through.

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StuartATrueRed

I suggest giving the team feedback (a lot of it), via the insider reddit page here https://www.reddit.com/r/xboxinsiders/wiki/xboxrequests/

GLaDOS62

The change happened because they would rather listen to trolls on reddit than to customers.

{Parity}

I don't find it slow or cluttered. I like having everything right there quickly available. However, like Burnin TODI says I don't spend a whole lot of time in the menus.

Burnin TODI

Not slow for me...of course, owing to the number of dashboard topics brought up here in the forums, there does seem to be a percentage of xbox users more interested in playing around in the menus than actually playing games. Hope MS doesn't catch wind of
this, otherwise their next console reveal will only be focused on the menu, and not on...you know GAMES!!

IntrepidChuck

After reading the responses, I wanted to come back and clarify what I mean.

I meant cluttered in the logical sense, not the visual sense. Take for example
the current Home Screen. It feels like there is a lot of scrolling. Yes, you can use the triggers, but I feel like there could be a better placement for everything.
Here is a concept of what I was thinking. As for the game hub and share buttons on the recent games, they can be moved to the
option menu here.

Regarding the Store tab. I think if they are going to load in a separate app for the Store, it shouldn't be a tab on the dashboard, but rather just a button on the home screen. As with my concept for the Home screen, I think the pictures in the store should
get shrunk down as well. The new real estate would make a good place for more filtering options, a Games For Gold button, and current sales.

And yes, I do use the Xbox for playing games. I just want a smoother experience finding, launching, and switching the games I want to play.

Home Screen Clutter