Xbox One March Update Now Available to Preview Program Members

Written by Brandon Hofer on February 18, 2015

News: Microsoft has revealed that if you are in the preview program you can download March’s update which includes a very heavily requested feature.

Major Nelson has revealed that the Xbox One March update is now available to preview members. There are a good number of additions for the month of March including one of the most popular requested features, screenshots. A few of the new features in the March update include:

Screenshots - While playing a game, you can now take screenshots on your Xbox One console by simply double-tapping the Xbox button on your controller to capture a screenshot and pressing Y to save the screenshot. If your Xbox One is equipped with a Kinect, you can also say “Xbox Take a Screenshot” to take and save a screenshot. Once you do that perform the following steps:

1. Open the Upload app (not the Upload Studio app)

2. Go to “My Captures”

3. Highlight the picture you want and then press “A”

Once you do that you should see the options to “Save,” “Like” and “Share."

Please keep in mind that it is essentially in beta for the next couple of weeks so if it won’t let you save right away then just keep trying. Also, as of the time of this writing, the “Share” functionality is not working but one can assume it will be working for the general public gets the March update.

Upload App - The Upload app is being updated so that you can manage your screenshots in addition to your game clips. You can use a screenshot as your background, by viewing the screenshot in full-screen mode from the Upload app, then, press the Menu button and select Set as background.

Suggested Friends - With the suggested friends feature, the Friends area in home and your friends list will help you find and add friends. Suggested friends will include people you might know, so you add more friends to game with, and top community broadcasters and clip creators, so you can get more great content in your activity feed.

Sharing your name - There are now two new ways to share your real name; with all of your friends or to everyone in the Xbox Live community. You can also continue to share your real name with select friends, or with no one, if that’s what you prefer. Gamertags are still the primary method of identifying yourself on Xbox Live, but sharing your real name helps people recognize you who might not know you by your gamertag.

Tile Transparency - They are adding a setting to enable you to vary the level of transparency for your background images. Go to Settings -> My Xbox -> Tile transparency.

Those are probably the most important updates for March for a lot of people. For a full and complete list be sure to visit Major Nelson’s page. You can also check out the video below. Which of the new March features are you most excited about? What do you want to see added for April? Tell us what you think below.

source: Major Nelson