i don't see my spotify icon in my game bar. i really want the widget. granted i used a vpn...

Hi Duarte , my name is Rodrigo. I'm an Independent Advisor and a member of the Microsoft community and I'd love to assist you today.

I am sorry to hear that.

You can use the Game Bar capture widget to do it.

Open the game bar Winkey + G, and click on the Capture icon to open the widget.

To capture it press Wingkey + Alt + Printscreen key or if you are using a controller, the Share button.

Please give it a try.

That's not really my issue. My friends can hear me while I have Game Bar up on screen. As soon as I exit and play my game, my friends can't hear me. I just figured out that if I pin the party chat widget on game bar so it stays there when I exit game bar, my friends will still be able to hear me. For now that's what I'll stick with, but I'd like to be able to remove the party chat widget from my screen.

Hi YanYannnn,

Yes, closing the Xbox Social widget in the Game Bar temporarily resolves the issue.

I say 'temporarily' because I'd still consider this a workaround to a continuing bug in Game Bar. Once I've left my party, it should stop using my microphone immediately. I should not need to also close the Xbox Social widget.

I don't suppose there's any way to flag this as a technical issue so it gets to a dev team, is there?

Thanks,

Kieran

But its not really useful just protaction VPN would be its a IP changer not a game grabber I don't see why it a rule but I never used on Xbox but do use it on shield and computers don't want my in for gone just not here only pleace I dont

when i click on the gear icon & on game bar settings, these are following options on the left side panel for me are as follows:

General

Shortcuts

Controller Bar

Accounts

Widget menu

Personalization

Capturing

Gaming features

Notifications

Feedback

im on game bar version 5.823.7272.0