Xbox One August 2020 update rolls out today, improves the Guide further

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What you need to know

What you need to know

TheNew Xbox Experience has begun Insider testing now, but an announcement snuck intoXbox’s news postis the rollout of the August 2020 Xbox One update, which tweaks and improves the Xbox Guide further. The August 2020 Update has been in testing for a while, and doesn’t make any major changes to the Xbox Experience, beyond some nice-to-have tweaks for the Xbox Guide.

Here’s everything that’s included in the August 2020 Xbox One update:

If you’re looking for major changes, you’ll have to wait for the anticipated end-of-year New Xbox Experience update heading to Xbox One andXbox Series Xconsoles, but until then Microsoft will continue to improve and build upon the existing Xbox Experience with new features and refinements. This is especially true with the Guide, which gets lots of attention, being something players interact with constantly while using their Xbox console.

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