Xbox One March System Update Preview, To Include New 'Screenshots' and 'Suggested Friends' Features and Functionalities
Xbox One, the home video game console developed and marketed by Microsoft, is due for a major system update in March. Those who have signed up as members of the Xbox One preview program have already checked out the upcoming new features and improvements that will be rolled out publicly next month. These new features and improvements, according to Xbox, are:
• Screenshots - While playing a game, you can now take screenshots on your Xbox One console by simply double-tapping the Xbox button on your controller to capture a screenshot and pressing Y to save the screenshot. If your Xbox One is equipped with a Kinect, you can also say "Xbox Take a Screenshot" to take and save a screenshot.
• Upload App - The Upload app is being updated so that you can manage your screenshots in addition to your game clips. You can use a screenshot as your background, by viewing the screenshot in full-screen mode from the Upload app, then, press the Menu button and select Set as background.
• Suggested friends - With the suggested friends feature, the Friends area in home and your friends list will help you find and add friends. Suggested friends will include people you might know which you can opt to add to game with, along with top community broadcasters and clip creators, allowing you to get more great content in your activity feed.
• Sharing your name - There will now be two new ways to share your real name - with all of your friends or to everyone in the Xbox Live community. You can also continue to share your real name with select friends, or with no one, if that's what you prefer. Gamertags are still the primary method of identifying yourself on Xbox Live, but sharing your real name helps people recognize you who might not know you by your gamertag.
• Tile transparency - The feature adds a setting to enable you to vary the level of transparency for your background images. Go to Settings -> My Xbox -> Tile transparency.
• Privacy & online safety settings - Added new setting for sharing voice search data to create an option for users to allow collection and analysis of voice data when they use Xbox-Bing to search.
• Report spam - The Messages app has an added option to allow you to notify Xbox when you receive spam. With this, you can now select a specific message, press the Abutton and then select Report -> Spam to report a specific message as spam.
• eGuide for Australia - Support for OneGuide will continue in preview in Australia for free-to-air TV listings.
• Xbox Digital TV Tuner in Australia - Xbox One owners in Australia with an Xbox Digital TV Tuner can now use it with the preview builds of this month's release.