Perhaps the most interesting aspect about the Xbox One Fall Update is the ability to further personalize your experience, which in combination with previously available features, allows you to customize the Xbox One home screen like never before. In this guide, you’ll learn the steps to switch to the light theme, create content blocks, and set a custom background image to personalize your Xbox One experience.
How to enable light theme How to create content blocks How to set a custom background
How to enable light theme
Alongside the new features, the Xbox One Fall update introduces a new light theme that changes the color scheme using white and light gray colors instead of the black and dark gray colors. The light theme helps the experience to feel more modern and friendlier than before. To switch to the light theme, use these steps. Once you’ve completed the steps, go back to the home screen, and your Xbox One should now be using the light theme. Xbox One Guide Xbox One light theme
How to create content blocks
The dashboard not only shows the recent games and apps you’ve been using, but now it’s also possible to customize the experience adding games, apps, and friends to home for quicker access. This new content is known as “blocks,” which you can create, reorder, or delete. In addition, these blocks also show updates with relevant information, such as Activity Feed content, friends playing the game, suggested Achievements, and a shortcut to the hub of the game you added. To create a new block of content, use these steps: If you want to add a new game to home, select a game from the My games & apps section, press the hamburger menu button, select the Add to home option and press A. If you want to add a friend, open the Guide, in your friends list, open friend you want, select the Add to home option and press A. It’s also possible to add suggested content, scrolling to the bottom of the blocks, and from the “Add more” block, select and press A for the block you want to add. Unfortunately, you can’t add apps to home, but you can add an app pin to the pins block. To edit or reorder, simply select the block and press Y. Using the d-pad, you can change order of the block, press A to apply the changes, X to delete, or B to cancel.
How to set a custom background
Another way to make your Xbox One experience more personal is setting a new background using a solid color or achievement art. However, if you want to make the experience more personal, it’s also possible to use a custom image as a background, which Xbox One doesn’t make it very obvious. The easiest way to set a custom background is using these steps: After completing the steps, go back to the home screen, and you should now see the new custom background on your Xbox One dashboard. Just remember that you can only use JPG file format images. Set custom image as background on Xbox One All content on this site is provided with no warranties, express or implied. Use any information at your own risk. Always backup of your device and files before making any changes. Privacy policy info.
