Is there a way to undo an update for the Xbox Game Bar?

True Sentinal · Jan 6, 2024

For a couple of months now, I've had an issue with the Xbox Game Bar on Windows 11. It has stopped sending me notifications for party invites and game invites. It has blank notifications whenever I start a party and there's no way that I can get rid of them from everything that I've done. There's a blank notification above the friends list and when I click on it, it brings me to a web page about background notifications for the app and the blank notification in the party is one that looks like it's supposed to show up when it doesn't detect a microphone but I can't interact with it and it will not go away.

Through the settings, I've repaired the app, reset it and nothing seems to work. I've gone through my commands section through PowerShell to uninstall the app to reinstall it to see if that would work but even that hasn't helped. I then believed the app was bugged out due to an update it received from the Insider Program so I opted out of that to see if that would do anything. Sadly, it did not.

I've done everything I could when it comes to searching up solutions and I just don't know what to do at this point.

:)

Tomm_A

Hello True Sentinal,

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Respectfully,

Tomm_A

Hello True Sentinal,

Greetings!

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community.

It seems that you're experiencing issues with the Xbox Game Bar on Windows 11. Unfortunately, there is no way to undo an update for the Xbox Game Bar. Let us see on what else can we do to help address your concern in a timely manner.

Here are the things that we can do.

1. Make sure Windows is up to date.

Press the Start button on the taskbar, type settings, and then select Settings.
Select Windows Update.
On the Windows Update page, select Check for updates to see if any updates are available

including optional updates for your device.

Once the updates have downloaded, select Install now to start the installation.
Following installation, we recommend that you restart your device so that the latest updates can take effect.

2. Make sure Xbox app is up to date. There are some updates of Xbox app where a fix has been implemented to fix some issues with party chat through Game Bar.

Press the Start button on the taskbar, type store, and open the Microsoft Store app.
Select Library.
Under Updates & downloads, check if there is any updates available for the Xbox app. If an update is available, select Update.

3. Try resetting the Xbox Game Bar to its default settings. To do this, follow these steps:

Open the Xbox Game Bar by pressing the Windows key + G.
Click on the Settings icon (gear icon) on the right side of the screen.
Click on the General tab.
Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the Reset button.
Restart your computer and check if the issue has been resolved.

On the other hand, try to report the problem to help our engineers investigate the problem. Go to the link below and check the steps under Report a problem online > Report on Windows. Here is the link: Provide feedback to Team Xbox | Xbox Support

We look forward to your response. Kindly let us know, if there is any misunderstanding or clarifications of our description by sending us a reply.

Sincerely,

samir tian

is there any way to undo the last update? to put back one before last one?

Smwutches

I know it's not the answer you'll want, but once the dashboard is updated, there is no way to go back and undo the update to have the previous dashboard.

Mr Jeffurson

sorry Microsoft cant do anything about this there is no way to undo its all against there ToS To undo your -Points

Is there a way to undo an update for the Xbox Game Bar?