Microsoft has released software updates for the Xbox Series S and X and the Xbox app for iOS and Android that carry some quality-of-life enhancements and small tweaks that you could be discover the subsequent time you go to play a recreation.

If you’ve gotten your console output audio by way of HDMI, you could now have the ability to management the quantity of your audio system from the Xbox itself, utilizing new choices within the Audio and Music part of the Xbox menu. If you don’t see the quantity down, up, and mute buttons, it’s seemingly as a result of your audio setup isn’t CEC all over — my Xbox outputs audio to the TV, however as a result of it’s shuffled off to a pair of audio system by way of an optical cable, I can’t management quantity from my Xbox.

Another headlining audio characteristic is the flexibility to show off the sound that performs once you flip the console on. The characteristic has been out there to members of the Xbox Insider program for a couple of month now, nevertheless it’s good to see it lastly hitting everybody’s consoles. As my colleague Jay Peters identified, it may possibly assist keep away from a frantic sprint for the quantity controls once you flip in your Xbox in the course of the evening and it blasts out its track. You can discover the choice by going to Settings > General > Volume and Audio output > Additional choices. The “Mute startup sounds” possibility is below Power and Startup.

There’s just a few different tweaks that include the Xbox October replace: the names for the ability modes have been modified, as have the names for Xbox passkeys and visitor keys, which are actually referred to as Xbox Pins. Microsoft additionally says that it’ll be simpler to set your own home Xbox when establishing a brand new console and {that a} controller firmware replace will repair some bugs when utilizing USB flight sticks with the Xbox adaptive controller.

Outside of the console, you’re now capable of trim and edit clips within the Xbox cellular app earlier than sharing them. You can see what the interface appears like within the tweet beneath, which exhibits the method of chopping out a selected phase and saving it. Hopefully this kind of expertise will come to the precise console sooner or later as an alternative of simply current on the app. Microsoft says the app’s enhancing characteristic “will start rolling out today and be available for everyone soon.”