Why are there so many system 1,5 hour costing mandatory updates

I didn't bother saving anything to the cloud because i never anticipated that a mandatory update would wipe out my hard drive and all the games i put so many hours into

Thank you all for your replies. What you say is how it supposed to work but it's far from reality. I have instant on and automatic updates active and yesterday my xbox one was switched off (but standby) the whole day doing nothing....and in the evening we wanted to watch a movie but when we wanted to start the xbox and the tv the Xbox was........updating....it could have been updating the whole day.....when it had started the update when I switched off the Xbox it shoukd have worked like you mention but no.....the xbox was updating for more than an hour.....and no movienight.... dissapointed guests....because the update is always mandatory....and always complete and taking about 1,5 hour..... My other xbox one has also instant on active but not auto update active and it switched on without the update...untill I wanted to start Amazon....and started updating.....My girlfriend has a playstation and less updates, smaller updates, very quick...I regret I have spend so much money in Xbox games...

So...updating when your Xbox is not used could have worked when the xbox starts the update when it is switched of....instead of updating when the xbox is not used whenever it wants to update...with a chance you just wanted to start playing...

Making the hasslefree auto updating a fairytale which is NOT working

I have not opted for the insider program....also had it checked....the misery started when I bought the Xbox One X when it was released...as a 2nd console...and the update misery started on both Xboxes...

Couple of months ago I did saw there was an uodate which I installed because it was not interferring with activity...succesfull installed but next evening there was again an update and both xbox ones started updating

to increase the version with 0.0.00000.0001

Sounds really worth the 1,5 hour update....not!

When the complexity of modern consoles is causing these too frequent too much time consuming mandatory updates the answer to my question is: NO, i should NOT consider the Xbox X anymore because updating is more important than having fun with a gaming console today.......

(maybe they should not develop too quick? Less bugs...less vulnerabilities....lesser new bugs in the bugfixing updates) and the xbox one sadly does not work with patches....installing a patch can be done quick....but installing a patched full image costs 1,5 hour)

did the mandatory update last night all was well. tried logging on today and my system freezes just as it says you have so many friends online and the white spinny thing is running. same thing every time.

Hi, that looks like your Xbox is enrolled into the Insider update program. If you want to reduce the amount of updates you receive you can change to a lower update ring in the Insider app or remove your Xbox totally from the Insider program.

https://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-one/console/xbox-insider-program

Hey MarioGuerra1,



I am glad you were able to get your update for Fallow 76 but, was sad to hear it came with such a heavy cost. Games like Fallout 76 have huge updates that come with fixing bugs or adding content to the game. Fallout 76 is a live
service game meaning it is constantly getting new content after launch. Examples of this content is the massive Waistlanders updated that came with adding NPC and story content. With a game as big as Fallout 76 and is graphicly intense the data files are extremely
large. (Waistlanders update was 70GB as example) Unfortunately, the amount of information being sent can only be compressed so much prior to install due to technical limitations. Developers are always trying to find better ways to make their games smaller
without compromising the game itself because they reach as many gamers as possible. Sadly, shrinking huge games are hard and something they are always trying to improve.





Due to your internet being limited by how much you can download your situation is hard to fix outside of updating your internet plan. If your provider offers it to something with more data in your useable amount an upgrade would
probably be cheaper than pay for overage charge.



If your provider does not have an upgrade to allow more data, you will need to try to be more strategic with your data. I would try to check download and updates file size before you download something so, you know how much data
it cost and compare it to how much data you have. Then I would make sure you use up the left over data you have before your internet cycle is up each month by updating or downloading games with your left over internet, That way when you go to play them they
shouldn't cost as much data to update next time you go to play them.



Hopefully, this was helpful.