{"id":87828,"date":"2026-08-19T14:32:44","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T18:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=87828"},"modified":"2026-08-19T15:38:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T19:38:04","slug":"xboxs-latest-console-update-will-finally-let-you-choose-old-saves-to-delete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=87828","title":{"rendered":"Xbox\u2019s Latest Console Update Will Finally Let You Choose Old Saves To Delete"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Xbox&#8217;s latest console update is rolling out now to Xbox Insiders, giving players more control over the home screen and saves, as well as improvements to profile customization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/news.xbox.com\/en-us\/2026\/08\/19\/xbox-insiders-october-2026-console-features-2\/?ocid=Platform_soc_omc_xbo_tw_Link_lrn_8.19.3\">update<\/a>, which will first roll out to Alpha and Alpha Skip-Ahead Xbox Insider members starting today, tiles can now be more easily removed from the Recent Games and Apps list at the top of the Home page, including the entire Play History tile. For those who want to hide the home screen and bask in the glory of their background art, a new immersive background mode will let users hide the home page and UI with a click of the right thumbstick, bringing the background front and center.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The update also introduces more control over local saves. With the update, players can easily view, sort, and delete local saves based on size under the new Manage Local Game Saves section in the settings menu, allowing players the ability to free up storage space by getting rid of old or unneeded saves. Previously, players could only delete all local saves, without the ability to pick and choose specific ones. Recent save-game data will still be backed up automatically and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xbox&#8217;s latest console update is rolling out now to Xbox Insiders, giving players more control over the home screen and saves, as well as improvements to profile customization. As part of the update, which will first roll out to Alpha and Alpha Skip-Ahead Xbox Insider members starting today, tiles can now be more easily removed&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":87830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87828"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87831,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87828\/revisions\/87831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/87830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}