With the new Xbox policy of deleting captures after 90 days, will it only be deleted from...

Hi. My name is Mel and I am an independent advisor. Due to a new policy starting October 1st, 2023, existing and new captures on the Xbox Network will be automatically deleted after 90 days. Hope this helps

Hello ! I'm Aymeric, an independent advisor, and I'm here to help !

I'm sorry to hear about the loss of your game captures, especially those memories with your friend.

Microsoft implemented a policy starting September 27, 2023, where game captures stored on the Xbox network are deleted after 90 days. Unfortunately, once these captures are deleted from the Xbox network, they cannot be recovered.

Sorry for the inconvenience..

Have you checked the local storage of your console ? If they were stored on your console, they might be still there. Locally stored clips are not affected by the 90-day deletion policy.

Please let me know if you have any other question !

Unfortunately captures are automatically deleted from the Xbox network after 90 days now. You could try opening the Captures app and selecting "On this Xbox console" from the drop-down list at the upper-left, as clips are not automatically deleted from the console itself after 90 days, although they do get deleted from there over time as you capture new clips and screenshots. It's worth checking though.

What I do is set the console to automatically upload my captures to both the Xbox network and OneDrive, as they are not automatically deleted from OneDrive and it makes it easy to save any ones that I want to keep on my PC. Unfortunately, you can't share clips uploaded to OneDrive on your profile or via an Xbox message, which is why I upload to both.

But yeah, if your missing clips are not on the console itself and you only uploaded them to the Xbox network, they are gone for good I'm afraid.

After 90 days, captures are deleted from the Xbox network. It actually states this on the captures app. In the future, if you have a screenshot or video capture you want to keep, it is always a good idea to make a backup of them asap.

I am having the same issue. A while ago Microsoft implemented a new policy where screenshots and game clips that are uploaded to the Xbox Network (previously called Xbox Live) will automatically be deleted after 90 days. However, I don't believe that they should delete themselves off the Xbox's local storage as well.