Xbox One testing new messaging, Game Pass features and more for Insiders soon

Microsoft today revealed details on some new features coming to the 1905 update for Xbox One. Set to striking the Alpha Skip Ahead and Alpha rings tomorrow, the new updates contain several changes for Game Pass, friends lists, and messaging.

Here's a quick breakdown:

Play Later: Xbox Game Laissez passer subscribers volition now be able to create a list of games they desire to play later from the Game Laissez passer library. The feature is meant to make the growing Game Laissez passer catalogue a little easier to manage based on your priorities.
Where your friends are playing: An updated version of your friends listing volition now show where your friends are playing games in addition to what they're playing. The feature will display a PC icon when a friend is playing on PC, an Xbox icon for Xbox, and a mobile icon for mobile devices.
Bulletin requests: Messaging will now prioritize message requests from "friends and anyone you want to communicate with." Messages from those y'all don't know will be filtered out into a separate "message requests" tab. There is a downside to this process, all the same, every bit Microsoft says previous group messages volition be lost in this transition.
Better game and app sorting: Microsoft previously described this feature, but games in your "My games & apps" section will no longer be sorted co-ordinate to articles similar "a," "an" and "the" if they are at the get-go of the game'south name. "The Witcher," for example, will now be sorted alphabetically nether "Due west" instead of "T."

In addition to the above features, Microsoft says that there will be some other experimental features that may appear for certain Insiders to cheque out.

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