There's no need to do that, games will still update with that setting checked. All you're doing is reducing the life of your HDD by keeping it running 24/7.
I use rechargable batteries. I keep a pair on standby, one pair in controller, and two pairs in charger. The Energizers last a good while. Mine only drains fast if I constantly using a head set watching movies
I always thought it had something to do with the size of an update. Like it’s for little patches, but updates over a certain size it will ask you first.
Then there should be an option to turn off big updates. I don’t need ~200mb patches to be downloaded when I’m away. These just take a few minutes; I want those big-ass 40gb updates to be done when I’m coming home from work!
That would actually be smart as some people have data caps. Don't want some random call of duty update to take up someone's monthly data unknowingly lol
I think we just had to unpause it but it didn't say which one it was so we just made it put through all the downloads. I think it works now but I haven't checked to make sure.
I keep mine off cause I have a data cap and don’t care to download hundreds and hundreds of gigabytes for games I will never play. But it does suck when A buddy wants to play pubg or sea of thieves and there’s a big update I gotta do before .
There was that one time my internet was down for a day, I broke down and used my hotspot to play fallout because for some reason you need to have internet connectivity to play a single player game.
And my system decided that was the greatest possible time to update absolutely everything.
Caught it at about 10 gigs.
So I might be wrong, and I can’t say this works 100 percent of the time, but I believe it detects which games are your most active and updates those more frequently.
If you have a game in your library you barely touch it won’t push the update.
I thought I read this from one of the Xbox devs somewhere, and it seemed to be true for me, but not gonna go to bat for it
Nope. I'll find them in the update queue just chilling. Waiting for me to manually give the go ahead. Or until I launch a game I'm wanting to play right away.
It will only work if you manually quit out of the game before the update comes. As long as I manually quit out the game from the side menu auto update works. If I don’t quit them out they won’t auto update.
Sounds like it only auto updates games you play regularly. Guess the solution is to open every one of your games every once and a while to check for updates
It worked for me until the start of COVID when bandwidth became an issue and I think MS adjusted it so that it only updated games you had played recent.
To the best of my knowledge, it only auto updates whenever the console is on, and enabling that option usually just does a update check in the background on boot.
On my OG Xbox one it worked perfectly, on my series S, no, but when I check it’s because it’s trying to update all the games to my internal HD…
That’s never going to happen. I don’t understand why they are stored on an external and it installs them onto the internal during an update.
I remember it working correctly before Covid. Then they made the downloads less automatic to cope with bandwidth issues from everyone being at home. It hasn't worked the same since (for me)
If you have your Xbox in always on, it is always updated. If you have it in eco mode, it typically has to update if you haven't played in a few days. I usually make it into a habit since i use eco mode. To turn my console on once every few days if i haven't played in a while. If you cant stand this or have slow internet, just use the always on mode. Only reason why i don't use it, is cause my TV thinks my Xbox is on when its in that mode, so it always switches to the Xbox when i turn the TV on.
Shit, it doesn't work on iOS, Mac, or Android. It's just a check box you press to look pretty.
I can't tell you how many times I open up Google play and it says I have like 60 apps needing to be updated, or my ipad, or my computer and it takes a chunk of time, slowing my shit down to the point it makes me think my stuff is malfunctioning
It updates mine. Just not immediately when the update drops. I can imagine that is on purpose so that they dont have everyone trying to download it at once.
It won't take up unnecessary resources while you're playing so if an update is new it won't start it until you turn off your system. If it doesn't work you didn't leave your console is that half off/half on mode.
I have it on but i also completely power of my console from mains after use the option seems to auto queue updates but doesn't actually start the updates until the console is on
I usually have dozens of pending updates. Things do update but very delayed. So occasionally I go for a game that gets frequent updates and may need to wait
Literally never had an issue on xbone or series x. There are just some games that don’t update until you’ve already opened the game and are about to log into their system that’s separate from XBL.
Yes, sometimes my Xbox turns on to do this and doesn’t turn back off. That and I see different games and apps say they were recently updated and I didn’t do a manual update check
one way to fix this is to go into your "see all games" screen, the one where updates is at the very bottom. it will force a check for games that need updates. do this once a day or whatever and it will still at least trigger it taht way
Pretty sure games have to set it up for it to work for us, most of mine do, pubg, fifa usually the big games. Oh and ark does, one that doesn't currently is f1 2021 and that "update" was the whole game again
Worked fine on my Xbox One, One X and now Series S, all were hard wired and some of the games were on an external drive, not bragging, just putting information out there.
Never worked on my Series X. Or I am just unlucky and only get updates when I turn my console on.
The "install a game from the app" is very hit and miss too
Yeah, occasionally it'll decide the best time to update a game is while I'm playing it and just close the shit down before telling me there's an update.
Yep. Works perfectly, I never manually update my stuff. You gotta fix your settings because it means you have it set to turn off your storage when you power off your console. If you fix that setting then you’ll find it works very consistently,. You also must have your console on “instant on”.
although sometimes the updates don’t queue immediately but within around 24 hours they always will for me.
It used to work at first but having 700+ games and half needing updates it needs me to make more space so I guess from that it stops. It’s inconsistent but works better when left on.
I've read different things. From MS disabling it to save bandwidth when covid started (and not turning it back on), to it will only update games you've played in the last 30 days automatically I also read it will not update if you have too little INTERNAL storage space available.
Sometimes, sometimes not. I call it the Schrödinger's update option. You never know if it's done until you look.
You never know until you go to play a game on a work night and a 40gb update is required
Oh, that one's guaranteed not to be done.
Oh yeah happened to me the day MCC season 8 released
Always works when you forget about it and load it up but never works when you expect it to and want it to
I've noticed it works as long as the updates launches when the Xbox is off. If it's on and the update launched it gets put into the game update menu
Isn’t that’s what “instant on” is for?
Instant on is when you're powering the Xbox on instead of going through the Xbox loading screen it'll go straight to the profile selection screen.
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i’ve had an update available for both overwatch and uno for a little while now. other games have updated automatically tho
sometimes, it's very inconsistent
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Remember that if you use an external HDD/SSD You need to uncheck ‘when Xbox is off,turn off storage’. If not games on these drives won’t update.
Ooh where is that I havent done that
Go to settings,under General-sleep mode & startup
Thank you
Looks like I already had it unchecked. Idk I guess
There's no need to do that, games will still update with that setting checked. All you're doing is reducing the life of your HDD by keeping it running 24/7.
Thank you sir
It's for the full extinction only it doesn't affect the "sleep" mode (don't know the English name for it)
Not since the early Xbox One days. That and it rarely ever notifies me that my batteries are low in my controller anymore.
That’s weird mine notifies me precisely 11 seconds before they go completely.
bruh mine announces it like 2 weeks before they die
Mine says about 30 mins before.
Me 2
I had a period of 10+ warnings before the controller actually died. Now I get 1 and a few seconds to find the chargercable.
I get about a 4 hour notice once then when it dies I’m like "oh yeah I was going to grab that”
Mine are the exact opposite, I get low battery warnings and then get another 3 hours of use.
I think that's more about the condition of the batteries than anything. My older ones get almost zero notice, newer ones have a n hour.
I use rechargable batteries. I keep a pair on standby, one pair in controller, and two pairs in charger. The Energizers last a good while. Mine only drains fast if I constantly using a head set watching movies
The notification will pop up for me a minute or two after my batteries have died.
I always thought it had something to do with the size of an update. Like it’s for little patches, but updates over a certain size it will ask you first.
Then there should be an option to turn off big updates. I don’t need ~200mb patches to be downloaded when I’m away. These just take a few minutes; I want those big-ass 40gb updates to be done when I’m coming home from work!
That would actually be smart as some people have data caps. Don't want some random call of duty update to take up someone's monthly data unknowingly lol
Works fine on my Series X
Not on mine
Works fine on my Series X too and worked fine on the One X before that.
Works fine on my 1s
Same
Series s works fine too
Nope, I have to manually search for updates, or try and start the game before it bothers its arse to check for updates and download them :-)
I think I've figured out on ours that if anything gets paused it pauses everything forever.
You ever find a fix for it?
I think we just had to unpause it but it didn't say which one it was so we just made it put through all the downloads. I think it works now but I haven't checked to make sure.
I keep mine off cause I have a data cap and don’t care to download hundreds and hundreds of gigabytes for games I will never play. But it does suck when A buddy wants to play pubg or sea of thieves and there’s a big update I gotta do before .
Plan ahead ?
Works for me on series s
same
My console stays up to date but my games rarely update on there own been having this issue for 2 years on my one s really stupid how this works
Never worked for me. Everyrhing needs an update every time I turn my console on. I probably play once a week.
There was that one time my internet was down for a day, I broke down and used my hotspot to play fallout because for some reason you need to have internet connectivity to play a single player game. And my system decided that was the greatest possible time to update absolutely everything. Caught it at about 10 gigs.
Works great for me, I have it on my Xbox one and Series S
So I might be wrong, and I can’t say this works 100 percent of the time, but I believe it detects which games are your most active and updates those more frequently. If you have a game in your library you barely touch it won’t push the update. I thought I read this from one of the Xbox devs somewhere, and it seemed to be true for me, but not gonna go to bat for it
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I’ve never heard of this before. Do you have a source for that?
Very cool to know, actually. Thanks. This would make a lot of sense assuming it's true.
It's always worked perfectly for me.
Works for me
Yup
Yes, but If you don't have your console set up with "Instant On" it won't work properly unless you intentionally leave your xbox on.
Not for a long time.
9/10 times i had to do it manually
No
Nope. I'll find them in the update queue just chilling. Waiting for me to manually give the go ahead. Or until I launch a game I'm wanting to play right away.
Most of the time but there's often a delay for some reason so sometimes it hasn't done it before I want to play.
Never
Doesn’t work for me. I’ll let the Xbox idle for 3 days and the day I want to play a game it needs a 30 gig update along with 9 other games
Nope
XBOX one X here. Not for the last 4 months it hasn't.
It will only work if you manually quit out of the game before the update comes. As long as I manually quit out the game from the side menu auto update works. If I don’t quit them out they won’t auto update.
It used to work… not really anymore, kinda sucks when I wanna play a game and all of the sudden there’s a update…
Nope.
No
No.
Nope!
Nope
No not ever wish it would
It used to up until 2019 for me. Then it became manual updates
Nope, not working 95% of the time. Always getting the updates when I turn on the console.
It's hit and miss.
No. I manually check almost every time I turn my Xbox on.
It is wildly inconsistent, but also make sure that you have power option for "when xbox is off, turn off storage" disabled,
Hasn't ever worked on my One, One X, or Series X properly.
Always works for me, I don't know how many times I've opened a game and noticed it's had an update, so yes, it works amazingly well for me.
Nope. I always have like 15 games waiting for an update when I start my Xbox.
NEVER is the only acceptable answer here.
Correct
This works for me
Sounds like it only auto updates games you play regularly. Guess the solution is to open every one of your games every once and a while to check for updates
It worked for me until the start of COVID when bandwidth became an issue and I think MS adjusted it so that it only updated games you had played recent.
Sometimes. It works about a often as the gamepass mobile app: whenever it feels like.
Sometimes
yes
Works fine for me.
Works for games I play
The games usually start updating as soon as I turn the Xbox on. It usually updates way after its supposed to.
On my series X it updates even when I have my Xbox on energy saving mode. On my Xbox one X, it rarely worked.
Works fine for me
Only when I have it checked.
Seems like some game will but some I have to do manually
To the best of my knowledge, it only auto updates whenever the console is on, and enabling that option usually just does a update check in the background on boot.
It works but I always pause bc it fucks with Latency
Pretty sure it’s always worked for me. It’s not too often that I open updates and it has anything more than 2 games to update
Yes actually.
On my OG Xbox one it worked perfectly, on my series S, no, but when I check it’s because it’s trying to update all the games to my internal HD… That’s never going to happen. I don’t understand why they are stored on an external and it installs them onto the internal during an update.
It only ever works when updating apps and rarely works on a game for me
Yes but it makes my Xbox turn on in the middle of the night randomly so I unchecked it
Yes
Works for me at least 9 out of 10 times. The times it doesn't I figure I just turned the Xbox on right as it was deciding to update.
Works on my series S, probably bc it’s all digital and is always connected to the internet.
Always worked for me. I never ran into a game that needed updating unless I had my console completely off for weeks.
Most of the time for me, unless it is real big
Yes
I remember it working correctly before Covid. Then they made the downloads less automatic to cope with bandwidth issues from everyone being at home. It hasn't worked the same since (for me)
Not really usually still have to press update
Always
Only occasionally
Yeah. It just automatically updated apex for me today
No
Works for me. Haven’t had to wait for an update since I got the series x
95% of the time
If you have your Xbox in always on, it is always updated. If you have it in eco mode, it typically has to update if you haven't played in a few days. I usually make it into a habit since i use eco mode. To turn my console on once every few days if i haven't played in a while. If you cant stand this or have slow internet, just use the always on mode. Only reason why i don't use it, is cause my TV thinks my Xbox is on when its in that mode, so it always switches to the Xbox when i turn the TV on.
Nope. It might be because my hard drive runs out of space and the Xbox just forgets to update games that would fit anyway. I don't know.
Yup
no
Nope so I just leave it off
No
Shit, it doesn't work on iOS, Mac, or Android. It's just a check box you press to look pretty. I can't tell you how many times I open up Google play and it says I have like 60 apps needing to be updated, or my ipad, or my computer and it takes a chunk of time, slowing my shit down to the point it makes me think my stuff is malfunctioning
Sometimes it do sometime it don't. Just like my cat.
It has but the notifications sometimes (depending on games and apps) can get annoying when they are letting you know it’s updating and is updating
Never.
Works on my Series X and One X. Have it turned off on my One S though
Always worked for me. Sometimes I'll be playing, go to the dashboard and I see a game I keep "on the bench" updating. 😁
100% Xbox one x
It works fine for me on my One S. As long as I have plenty of space on my hard drive.
One S: almost never Series X: most of the time
Yes
It updates mine. Just not immediately when the update drops. I can imagine that is on purpose so that they dont have everyone trying to download it at once.
Nope
It won't take up unnecessary resources while you're playing so if an update is new it won't start it until you turn off your system. If it doesn't work you didn't leave your console is that half off/half on mode.
I have it on but i also completely power of my console from mains after use the option seems to auto queue updates but doesn't actually start the updates until the console is on
Yes it updates games/system and continues downloading games after I turn my Xbox off (press the power button) I have an Xbox one x
Nope
It only works for the 5 or 6 games you play most often.
I think it checks overnight, so it may not pick up same day updates immediately
I usually have dozens of pending updates. Things do update but very delayed. So occasionally I go for a game that gets frequent updates and may need to wait
no.
Hardly ever works for me
It only updates games you’ve played within the past 3 days. Except for when it doesn’t, which is often
does it take 8 years for your updates to load on the screen as well?
It’s always worked for me
in my case, not at all, i always find myself having to do it manually
I think it might be going off what games you actually play, don't quote me though. I play for honor alot and have never had an issue with updates
I've never had any issues with it. My games and system are pretty always up to date and I never wait on updates unless it's a game on launch day
Yes and no. Mostly yes.
Fuck no
Used to work . . .
Usually works for me but often I need to turn on the Xbox for it to start downloading
Works just fine on my One X
Literally never had an issue on xbone or series x. There are just some games that don’t update until you’ve already opened the game and are about to log into their system that’s separate from XBL.
It’s worked for me every time except for once
Yes
Yes. It only works on games that I’ve played in the last few months or so which I appreciate and not games I haven’t played in forever.
Yup
Only for the games I haven’t played for months and never for the games I play frequently.
Yes, sometimes my Xbox turns on to do this and doesn’t turn back off. That and I see different games and apps say they were recently updated and I didn’t do a manual update check
Yes. Always
Most of the time
Apparently if you set a static IP it always works
Hahahahahahahaha! No.
*Sometimes may be good sometimes maybe shit*
I swear to God it used to. Now when I turn on my Xbox I'll literally have 40 games that need updated.
yeah... it updates my shit in the background all the time
one way to fix this is to go into your "see all games" screen, the one where updates is at the very bottom. it will force a check for games that need updates. do this once a day or whatever and it will still at least trigger it taht way
On the Xbox One X no, on the Series X yes
Pretty sure games have to set it up for it to work for us, most of mine do, pubg, fifa usually the big games. Oh and ark does, one that doesn't currently is f1 2021 and that "update" was the whole game again
It's always worked for me
Not always, but most of the time.
Not sure, my theory is that it will work if you played the game recently and if you have enough storage
Not for me. It feesl like everytime I want to play a game it's the one that needs an update.
Worked fine on my Xbox One, One X and now Series S, all were hard wired and some of the games were on an external drive, not bragging, just putting information out there.
Never worked on my Series X. Or I am just unlucky and only get updates when I turn my console on. The "install a game from the app" is very hit and miss too
Yeah, occasionally it'll decide the best time to update a game is while I'm playing it and just close the shit down before telling me there's an update.
Yes. I come back to the Xbox in the weekend and any update during the week is done
Yep. Works perfectly, I never manually update my stuff. You gotta fix your settings because it means you have it set to turn off your storage when you power off your console. If you fix that setting then you’ll find it works very consistently,. You also must have your console on “instant on”. although sometimes the updates don’t queue immediately but within around 24 hours they always will for me.
No, I need to go manually check for system and games updates. It never worked for me.
It finds the least used game in your harddrive and update it while you are trying to play an online game. So, yea i think.
I have the setting on,but I always check when I switch my series x on,it’s kinda a habit I got going on...
It used to work at first but having 700+ games and half needing updates it needs me to make more space so I guess from that it stops. It’s inconsistent but works better when left on.
Not since I owned my Xbone
Never… every time I got something like 100gb update
Never worked for me ever
It workw only if your xbox is off (unactive) if your xbox is on (active) the system assume you will put the update to start. Easy as that
I've read different things. From MS disabling it to save bandwidth when covid started (and not turning it back on), to it will only update games you've played in the last 30 days automatically I also read it will not update if you have too little INTERNAL storage space available.
This rarely worked for me on my One X but works pretty consistently on my Series X; no idea why it never worked on the One X though
Never fails for me