September 12 (Portaltic/EP) –
Microsoft has announced the relaunch of friend requests on Xbox, which members of the Insiders program who have joined the program will be able to try out starting this week. preview available for your consoles, Windows PCs and other portable platforms.
Microsoft already had this system, which changed with the arrival of Xbox One, From this point on, anyone added to the user’s friends list would be considered as such. Thus, a one-way system was established: anyone who wanted to be aware of the news of another follower would only need to press the ‘Follow’ button, without the follower having to accept or deny it.
Now the company has announced the return of friend requests, so that users can send, accept or delete them easily “to make it easier to connect with other people,” it explained in a statement.
With this function, therefore, Two-way relationships are established and offers “more control and flexibility” to its community. It will also coexist with the option to ‘Follow’ other users. This means that unidirectionality will be maintained when following other players.
This way, friends and followers who are already registered on the accounts will be automatically updated. “You will continue to be friends with the people who had also added you as a friend previously and you will continue to follow those who had not,” he said.
To start managing friends and followers, you must Access the ‘People’ tab in the Xbox menuwhere both players who are already friends and new friend requests will appear. The option to search for other contacts to send them a friend request will also be integrated.
With this, he has advanced that this feature will be available starting this week through a preview for Xbox Insiders users, through the Alpha Skip-Ahead Program, compatible with Xbox consoles, Windows PCs and portable devices. However, Xbox hopes to bring this option “to other devices later.”
He also said that with these updates new privacy and notification settings have also been added, allowing users to decide who can send them friend requests or follow their accounts.
To manage this setting you must access the Account section now in the Privacy and online safety section. Within Xbox Privacy, you must choose the option View details and customize.
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