How to pin games, apps, videos, or music to Xbox One Home

Xbox One Pins

As you obtain more games, apps, videos, and other experiences on your Xbox I, you want to able to access the ones that y'all utilize the near quickly. That's where pins come in. Yous tin can pin your favorite game or app to your Habitation screen for quick access.

Head past the break to picket the steps on video.

Creating pins

Press the Xbox push button to return Habitation or say "Xbox, go Home."
Locate the game, music, video, or app of the item yous want to pin.
With the tile highlighted, press the Card push. It'south the button with the hamburger icon on your controller.
Select Pivot to Home.

Xbox One pin to home

That's it! Your favorite item is now pinned to the Xbox One'south Home screen. By making a pivot you've basically created a shortcut to start the game or app from the front of the Xbox One dashboard instead of navigating through the menu to find it.

Rearranging pins

If you want to rearrange the pins, there are two solutions. Yous tin do it directly from the Xbox One, but it is non very convenient. There is an choice called Move to Front, which moves the pin to the upper right corner. You tin can't simply rearrange pins to specific locations straight from the Xbox Ane.

Xbox One move to front

A amend solution requires an app on your Windows Phone device. Brand certain to install Xbox One SmartGlass Beta. Tap the carte du jour push button at the elevation left corner and select Pins. From at that place, y'all can tap and hold one of your pins and so elevate it to the location you want.

Xbox One SmartGlass

What apps and games have y'all pinned on your Xbox One?

Nosotros would prefer information technology if we tin can rearrange the pinned apps and games direct from the Xbox One, merely it's cool that we can do it on our Windows Phone with the SmartGlass app. What exercise y'all accept pinned on your Home screen?

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