How to Appear Offline on Xbox App Mobile

We've all been there — after a long day at work, you come home to relax with a game on your Xbox One or Xbox One X, only to receive notification after notification from players looking to chat or have you join their party. Xbox Live enables players from around the world to communicate, but that isn't always what we want to do when we use the console. For those of us who wish to play games undisturbed, the Xbox One has a few different settings that allow you to avoid getting pestered, even when you're connected to Xbox Live. In this guide, we have everything you need to know about how to appear offline on Xbox One.

Method 1: Appear offline to everyone

If you want to appear offline to everyone, including any friends, you can do so in just a few steps. Once you signed into Xbox Live, hit the Xbox button on your controller to be taken to the quick menu.

Next, scroll all the way to the left to the Sign in tab and highlight and select your profile image. Click it, and you will see a drop-down menu with a few different options — select My profile and you'll be taken to a new screen. From here, you'll see a drop-down menu that says Appear online, which you can alter by selection a few different options — one of which is Appear offline. You can experiment with various settings here, as well.

It's worth noting that there is no way to appear offline through the Xbox iOS app, and after selecting Appear offline on the console, the app still showed us as online. You might want to avoid opening the app if you don't want to be bothered.

Alternatively, you can also change your online status by going to your full profile. From here, the menu in the top-right corner will give you the option to appear offline. You will also see another option here labeled Privacy settings. That is where the next method comes into play.

Method 2: Customize your online status

Want to play with your friends, but don't want to get bothered by random strangers who see you're active? Just as you can choose to appear online to everyone, you can also change the privacy settings in your Microsoft account so that only certain people see your status. Go to your Xbox One settings and you will find the Account option on the menu to the left. Once you select that, choose the Privacy & online safety tile from the menu to the right.

Next, you will go to a page with some preselected privacy choices for various types of players. The Adult default setting automatically makes your status online visible to all users with no regard to if the user is your friend. The Child and Teen default selections limit the visibility of online status to friends.

Supplementary constraints provide several options that are focused on watching or limiting more mature content. For that reason, you can select Customer and decide how you'd like to limit the noise.

Once you've picked Customer, click on View Details & Customize. This choice will bring you to the Online Status & History selection. On that page, you can tap on the drop-down menu located under a label that says "Others Can See if You're Online."

Using this drop-down menu, you can customize your privacy settings to fit your specific preferences. For example, you can make your online status public for anyone to view. You can also limit it to only your friend page or make it fully private. You can further customize the displays for your daily activities on this page, like what you're watching, playing, or listening to. Note that if you've listed your settings to private, friends won't be able to see your daily activities or personal statuses.

For the players interested in sharing their Xbox One games with friends, check out our handy guide for more information.

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How to Appear Offline on Xbox App Mobile

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