Microsoft today announced the news that all Xbox One owners will find in the Februaryconsole update (2002, in the classic year-month numbering) and that members of the Preview program have already been able to test for some time so far: finally come the simplifications of Home and The My Games and Apps,designed to make theinterface faster and snappy,but they are not the only new ones coming.

So here's the details of the new features expected on Xbox One in February, as yet unannounced:

Simplified home

The main page of our console, the Home,receives a major makeover with the elimination of the different "tabs" dedicated to Community, Game Pass, Mixer and Store, reporting the most important information in a single page scrollable vertically, customizable in the content and from which we can access the different sections.

Reorganize My Games and Apps

This might be the most controversial change: in the My Games and Appsarea, which loses the Updates, Game Pass and Queue sections, as well as the ability to see ready-to-install games, in favor of two sections: Full Collection,where you can access subpages with owned games, Xbox Game Pass collection, Games With Gold and EA Access games, and Manage, where you can access the downlad queue, and manage the backup quickly access some system settings related to the installation of games. It will take a while to get used to this new design, but there is no doubt that it makes this section much faster.

Images and gifs in text chats

For some time now, it was possible to insert images and gifs into text chats between Xbox Live users on the Xbox smarphone and PC app, but then this content was not visible on the console. You can now view your media files on Your Xbox One, with the ability to zoom in full screen. Sending is still limited to the mobile or PC app for now.

Changing the position of notifications

System notifications will no longer be limited to the default location centered at the bottom, where they often cover game subtitles; you can choose whether to display them at the top, bottom, or at the four corners of the screen.

New improvements to the Mixer viewing experience

Mixer lovers will now be able to set up "classic chat", which shows users' messages in a dedicated bar to the right of the screen, and you can also set the default resolution at which you want to see streams, without having to set it every time in the videos. There is also much more information about the various streamers on the platform.

New Archiving Management Options

When a disc fills up, today the console allows us to select which games to uninstall. With the new update, however, if it locates an external disk connected via USB, it will also propose to move the contents between the two disks.

In short, the February update seems full of interesting and important news! Of course we will communicate as always when it is available.

Separate management of bundled games in the Game Pass

When a product consisting of a collection of games (such as Shenmue I & II)is included in the Game Pass, you can now view the titles in the collection and choose whether to install all or only some of them.