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Microsoft has announced a fresh set of system features, including the long-requested ability to disable the console’s Quick Resume feature for specific games.
Quick Resume is great, and allows you to leap back into a string of games at the touch of a button, picking up exactly where you left off. But as someone who uses an Xbox Series X daily, I know there are certain titles — mostly online games — for which Quick Resume can be unreliable.
This is something numerous users have highlighted over the years, and now, finally, Xbox has acknowledged too — by letting you toggle off Quick Resume on specific games through a new setting.
The feature, which begins rolling out to members of the Xbox Insider beta program today, can be found by opening the More options menu on a game tile, and selecting Manage Quick Resume. All Xbox Series X/S users will see the option pop up soon, as the feature is tested more widely.
A set of other useful new features are also on the way, including the ability to set your system color to anything within a broad color spectrum, rather than the limited selection available to date. Yes, Microsoft has finally remembered that more than two dozen hues exist.
The number of groups on Home has been expanded from two to 10, meanwhile, and your Xbox profile badges will now show up in the Guide menu. Handy, I suppose, if you like remembering you were once part of Xbox Live Gold.
This feels like the first meaningful Xbox firmware update in some time, and comes as Microsoft begins re-establishing its presence in the console space after a dramatic corporate reshuffle and a recommitment to building new hardware, in the shape of the mysterious Project Helix. In other positive Xbox news, the division’s widely-disliked “This is an Xbox” marketing campaign appears to have been killed off, too.
Tom Phillips is IGN’s News Editor. You can reach Tom at tom_phillips@ign.com or find him on Bluesky @tomphillipseg.bsky.social
