Home screen tile transparency missing

There is already the concept of transparent tiles implemented by the Xbox One. It may not be what you envisioned and you may have better suggestion for future updates to this feature. Head over to the Feedback forums and add your own take on the tile transparency
or find the idea that best describes what changes you would like to see made to this feature. If you find an idea similar to what you want out of the feature you can just add your own comments to the idea to help further explain your vision. Cheers!

Adjust tile transparency
Adjusting the tile transparency allows you to better view your custom background through the tiles on the screen.

Note You cannot change tile transparency if your background is set to a solid color.

To adjust your background:

1. 1. Scroll left on the Home screen to open the guide.
2. 2. Select Settings.
3. 3. Select All Settings.
4. 4. Select Personalization, and then in the right pane, select My color & background.
5. 5. Select Tile transparency on the My color & background page.
6. 6. Choose the transparency that you prefer (Solid, Mostly solid, Partly transparent, or Mostly transparent).

Transparent tiles would be fine. Actually, I remember making a comment about tile transparency and how it would make themes easier to see, quite awhile back, regarding the 360 dashboard.

The 360 dashboard showed just a little bit of the tiles for the next 'tab' on the left or right of the screen. Those tiles had transparency... if I had to guess, I'd say about 50%. They looked fine and even though there wasn't much of them showing, it was
easy to see them as well as the fact that they were transparent.

There is no way to get rid of the advertisements on your home screen. If you highlight an ad, press the menu button on your controller then click on show me less. But you can't do this on every ad. The only thing you can do is make tiles transparent
and not to pin games to the home screen.

A solution can be found here (relevant parts included for your convenience): http://support.xbox.com/en-GB/xbox-one/console/change-xbox-one-background

Adjusting the tile transparency allows you to better view your custom background through the tiles on the screen. To adjust this:

1. Scroll left on the Home screen to open the guide.
2. Select Settings.
3. Select AllSettings.
4. In the Nav pane, select Personalisation, and then in the right pane, select My colour & background.
   
5. Select Tile transparency on the My colour & background page.
   

Choose the transparency value that you prefer (Solid, Mostly solid, Partly transparent or Mostly transparent).

The following additional information is taken from
news.xbox.com/.../xbox-one-xbox-one-february-system-update:

Custom backgrounds and tile transparency – We’ve added tile transparency to the Home tiles to make your background images more visible. As a reminder, to set a custom background, go to Settings > My Xbox > My
background. Note: some items can’t be made transparent due to usage rights/restrictions for certain images.



Let us know if the above solution does not work.

Transparent tiles, while being a nice option, i can't help but picture it not really helping. You'd see the faded outline of the tile, whatever you have in the background, and have a hard time reading what the tiles say. I think it would be bad for
the eyes overall.

I have 8.1 on my Nokia Lumia Icon with transparent tiles; if they are easy to read on a 5" screen...

Peace, J.R.