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Are you running out of space on your Xbox?
Dont worry, creating free space is easy.
Well have you downloading and installing new games in no time.
Hannah Stryker / How-To Geek
One way to decide which games to uninstall is to look at how much space theyre taking up.
Largetriple-A titlesand live service games tend to take up much more room.
If you want to uninstall multiple games and apps at once, there may be a quicker way.
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Head to configs > System > Storage devices and choose your Internal storage drive.
Check for Add-Ons and Shrinkable Games
Deleting games isnt necessarily as thorough as you might think.
Microsoft has made this easy.
Open My games and apps and choose Manage in the left-hand sidebar followed by Free Up Space.
Flip between the two to see what your options are.
Launch the Captures app under My games and apps to see all media.
Use the drop-down to choose On this Xbox console at the top of the screen.
it’s possible for you to also choose to show Game clips too.
From here its simply a case of selecting a capture and choosing Delete to remove it.
If you have an external drive connected you might copy it over to external storage, then delete it.
Only do this if youre sure theres nothing on the drive that you want to keep.
This is a great way to get some use out of an old drive you have lying around.
Plug it into your Xbox console and follow any prompts that appear.
With your drive connected, head to options > System > Storage devices and choose your Internal storage drive.
When youre ready, choose Move selected followed by Move to confirm.
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Once the item has been moved, youll be able to use the space for something else.
To play your game again, copy it back to the internal storage.
Netflix doesnt let you do this on Xbox (nor does Apple Music), but other services do.
Deleting an app should delete additional offline data too.
This isnt common, and I can only think of one game that does it and thatsMicrosoft Flight Simulator.
But since I havent played every single Xbox title, theres a chance other games do it too.
InFlight Sim, this option can be found under Options > General Options > Data > Rolling Cache.
you could turn the feature off or reduce the amount of space available.
To access them, youll need to kickstart your Xbox in developer mode.
Learn more about Developer Mode for Xboxand how touse your console to emulate other platforms.
Delete apps youve installed here
If youre using an emulator, locally stored ROMs will take up precious space