Xbox Game Bar Not Recording Mic Unless Notifications Turned On

As I mentioned in my original post, I've given the Xbox Game Bar app permissions. It's a bug. It shuts itself off even when I have the option turned on for it to turn my mic on by default when I record.

Hello Michelle Ravenwood,

Thank you for sharing your concern here in Xbox Community Forum and we hope that all is well.

Based on the description, you are trying recording using the game bar with your discord voice. Let us see how we can help.

Windows Xbox Game Bar can capture recording your screen, any sound output and your mic. You can turn the mic off if you do not want to record what your mic picks up. This is how the Xbox Game Bar capturing works. You can also capture recording on the other app by changing the audio to record capturing setting. To check follow the steps below:

• Open Xbox Game Bar or Windows key + G
  
• go to Settings (gear icon)
  
• select capturing and under Audio to Record, tick All.
  

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.



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Im using microphone for pc and game, enabled mic, apps, system

Hi affansaqib,

Welcome to Xbox Community Forums. We appreciate for sharing your concern with us and we hope that you are doing well today.

We understand the inconvenience caused. Let us check on this together and sort this out to assist your concern. However, before we proceed, we would like to ask few questions about it.

1. When did the problem start?
   
2. Any recent activity or changes made before the problem appeared?
   
3. What is the current version and edition of Windows Installed? (Search for WINVER in Windows search to see this)
   
4. What troubleshooting steps have you tried so far?
   

These above questions would help us provide the necessary information. Once we have gathered all the information, we will formulate the viable solution to help you with your case.

For the meantime, try troubleshooting Game Bar and see if that helps. Refer the article Troubleshoot Xbox Game Bar on Windows | Xbox Support.





In addition, you can also check if the Microphone for game bar is enabled under privacy settings.

1. Go to Settings (press Windows + I key together) > Privacy.
   
2. On the left hand pane scroll down and look for Microphone.
   
3. Toggle Allow apps to access Microphone to ON.
   
4. Under Choose which Microsoft Store app can access your Microphone toggle Xbox game bar to ON.
   
5. Restart the game bar.
   

Let us know the result and we will get back to you as soon as we can. We may recommend further troubleshooting steps once we have received your answers to the above questions.



We will be glad to follow up and help you.

Sincerely,



Moderator

Microsoft Community

Hello affansaqib,

Thank you for your reply and appreciate for your patience.

We will investigate this further, and we will get back to you if we have updates already.

Kind regards,



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Microsoft Community