Xbox February Update Announced: Here’s What’s New

Xbox, which has been on the agenda lately with the possibility of bringing its special games to platforms such as PlayStation and will organize an event on this subject on Thursday, announced a brand new update today. The new update will offer many innovations to users.

The February update is rolling out to Xbox owners worldwide starting today. The biggest innovation brought by the update is in the Xbox mobile application.

Touch controls come to the Xbox app to enable remote gaming

Xbox offered “remote play” from the app. This feature allowed you to play on your console via your phone. However, you had to connect a controller to the phone to play the games. This situation has changed with the new update.

In fact, we shared that this update was coming a few weeks ago. Now it has been finalized. Now on the application screen With touch controls, you’ll be able to navigate and play games on your Xbox without the need for a controller. Let’s say that the controls are similar to those in Xbox Cloud Gaming. The feature will be added to both Xbox’s iOS and Android apps. PlayStation has had this type of controls for a long time.

New calibration tool for the controller’s thumbsticks

Apart from this, Microsoft is also starting to offer innovations in different parts of Xbox. New control stick calibration tool is one of them. You will be able to recalibrate your controller’s thumbsticks from the Xbox accessories section on your console.

New filters came to games and applications

The update brings new updates to the games and applications section of the console. filter and sort brought options. Now your games accessibility, language supports or technical specifications You will be able to filter by categories such as. For example, you will be able to use the technical specifications section to see which games are suitable for touch controls in the application.

In addition, there are innovations that will allow you to easily sort your library. For example, when you select “Recently Added”, you will be able to easily see which games are new to your subscriptions such as Game Pass.