Overview
- Microsoft released a staged Xbox Insider update that adds a privacy‑aware mutual friends panel to profiles so users can see shared connections and a mutual‑friend count for non‑friends.
- The My games & apps area gains a poster‑style artwork view, separate Home and My games & apps customization sections, toggleable status icons, and new navigation shortcuts to speed library navigation.
- Players can add upcoming titles to their wishlist directly from a Game Card, letting users save pre-release games without visiting a store page.
- Microsoft has begun automatically switching consoles set to Sleep into the Shutdown (energy saving) option, which the company says can cut off‑state power use by as much as 20x and still allow overnight updates, and users can revert to Sleep in settings at any time.
- The update, first announced June 10 for select Xbox Insiders, continues a pattern of small, frequent platform tweaks that Microsoft is testing via the Insider Hub and subreddit before wider release, and it builds on the Shutdown option introduced in 2023.