I’m new and I assume alpha ring is for the latest updates and I don’t know how this all...

The whole point is that I don’t want to alpha or beta test games or updates. I’m happy to wait until those issues are sorted. But right now my Xbox is useless to me and this latest release fixes that. There is zero reason for it not to be released to everyone. Zero.

This isn’t an upgrade. This isn’t a new feature. This fixes a known problem.

Hi Natpars,

so how the program works is that by joining a higher up ring you get access to updates before the lower down rings and due to skip ahead being a new ring it is a limited number ring like all alpha but you will have to rejoin beta ring if you do leave alpha
skip ahead ring. you do not drop to your previous ring.

Seems limited to accessing digital games following the latest Insider Alpha Ring update. Hard reset didn't resolve the problem, and the offline update failed. I'm now trying full factory reset (a pain, but them's the breaks if you're an insider) and I'll
let everyone know how I get on.

Hi I am a Ring 3 Preview Member and I wanted to know how I can change My current ring to the Alpha Ring so I can help Xbox and give my input on their updates a bit sooner.

Hey there Cpl.

This has been a known issue for a while now and acknowledged by the Xbox Preview team and were testing a fix for this issue in the Alpha ring back in December. Since then, there has been no updates but based on this

article I'm assuming the issue was resolved in the Alpha ring preview update but doesn't seem to have gone live yet. There could have been some setbacks or the issue re-surfaced.

You can always reach out to the Developers for more information on this problem.

I Hope this helps.