Guide Button On Xbox Controller

Xbox is working on fixing lag with the Guide controller button

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Microsoft is looking to reports of the Xbox Guide button lagging when used past players.

Simply below, you lot can come across a tweet from Eden Marie, engineering pb at Xbox, published yesterday on Jan five. The applied science pb acknowledges that in that location have been cases of Xbox Insiders reporting the Xbox Guide button lagging when used, and and so Marie encourages users afflicted to immediately file a Problems Report for Xbox to further investigate.

Xbox Insiders, if you witness a slow response to the Guide button, delight immediately file a bug using the Guide -> Guide Functioning category. We've added more logging to try and nail down what'south going on.January 5, 2022

However, this isn't a guarantee that the situation surrounding the Xbox Guide button will be immediately resolved. While Xbox is officially asking users to written report the bug for them to investigate, information technology's always worth remembering that people effectually the earth are just just returning to work, including those at Xbox dealing with bugs on the panel software.

Nonetheless, it's a positive sign that Xbox is acknowledging the issue, and actively investigating it. If you're unfamiliar with the Xbox Insiders initiative, information technology'south a program that allows certain Xbox owners to preview upcoming content and software updates ahead of time, before they're officially pushed live to all Xbox owners worldwide at a after date.

While we're seeing the sectional members having to bargain with a bug, we've seen several features previewed on the Xbox Insiders program over the last year. Final April, for case, Xbox Insiders got to sample a feature which notified users which games were currently gear up to pick up where they were last played through the Quick Resume feature, before it rolled out to all Xbox console users afterward in the year.

Head over to our upcoming Xbox Series X games guide for a full look at all the new-gen games arriving on Xbox consoles later this yr.

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