How to shut off microphone in xbox game bar

Hi digerus,

Hope you're doing well despite your technology issues. You mentioned your microphone feed is not being picked up when recording with the Xbox Game Bar.

If you open up the Game Bar and select the Voice tab on the Audio section, does it show the microphone as the default communications input?

If you go to settings > privacy & security > Microphone is the toggle shut off for game bar? This would prevent microphone from working.

Here's the official support.xbox.com article related to troubleshooting Microphones and headsets, including how to update and reset your headset. Hope this helps.

Let us know if any of this solved your problem by selecting "Yes" below.

XBF Drew

Microphone On/Off - Windows Key + Alt + M

** Sry my bad that`s for Xbox Game Bar.

Hi Iman976,

Since this is happening with games bought and used from different platforms, there may be a PC setting that is causing this to happen. There's a possible setting where you have to turn on the microphone to record voice in your videos.

Go ahead and follow this guide to set up your headset microphone or any other microphone you use:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4027981/windows-10-how-to-set-up-and-test-microphones

On the Game bar, go ahead and toggle the microphone mute button on and off when recording a video to test it out.

https://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-on-windows/social/record-game-clips-game-bar-windows-10

Let us know if that helps!

I just got the Xbox One this morning. I used the controller once and went to unplug the microphone and it shut off completely.

Hi!

Try going into your microphone settings and make sure that you have given the Xbox Game Bar app permission to access your microphone!