When I’m playing games on my Xbox, one random buttons are being pressed!

Hello Tracenhogan, this is Manuela!. I'm an Independent Advisor and community user like you ready to assist with this.

I'm sorry to hear you're experiencing this unexpected behavior with your controller when trying to play in your console.

Please answer the next questions to provide better assistance :

May I know if you are able to test with a different controller?
If yes, is the issue persisting?
Is this happening only when you open a game?
Is this affecting a single game or all your games are affected?

Sorry i'm late to this thread but by any chance did you find a way to fix this problem because this is currently happening to me.

I'm afraid that it still occurs with both items disconnected. Currently, the only things plugged into it are the HDMI in (for a TV receiver), a cord for sound, and an HDMI connecting the thing to the projector I use with it.

I had a similar issue with buttons getting stuck and left stick wandering, I went to my local EB Games (GameStop) and they pulled it apart and cleaned, back to brand new now. You could do it yourself if you had the tools, and watched the videos and felt
comfortable, that was just my personal choice.

Good luck!

probably what's causing that is that maybe there is some grass on the controller, an update wont make that work again, what you can try is to open your controller and clean the contact part, there are video on youtube about it, but if you think it is better
someone who know how to do it does it, then take it somewhere in your city to be fix