My Xbox party

Ugh! There's still a bug that keeps me from joining partys'. I tried joining my friends party but it kept on saying can't connect to xbox live party, same for my friends, they can't join my party's unless they reset their (turn off/turn back on) xbox.

Hello, first it's a pleasure to be able to help you today.

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I'm sorry for the inconvenience this situation is causing you.

Welcome to the community. I hope I can help you in the best way.

Hello, what would be your Xbox platform or PC, at the moment live servers are under maintenance so really the gameplay and connection experience may be affected.

https://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-live-status

Wait for Live services to return to normal, and then see if you can connect.

Best regards,

I can't send party invites and messages to my xbox friends through my xbox 360. Will the invites for both games and party shutting down this week?

The party system is done through the Xbox Party app. You can go to the Party app from "My Games and Apps" or just say "Xbox Snap Party" and to start one up and invite people. Boot up Ghosts with your party and they'll join games with you, I believe.

To my knowledge there are no party icons on the xbox website. For party icons or party chat you will need to get the xbox app for your mobile device to use party chat, or on your computer you can hold windows+g and it will open up an xbox UI where you can
also use party chat.

if this does not help you can you please elaborate on “party icon”?