Microsoft's New Xbox App Will Let You Stream Xbox One Games To Your iPhone

Microsoft is about to release a big Xbox app update for iOS that includes the ability to stream Xbox One games to an iPhone. The Verge reports: A new Xbox app will arrive in the App Store soon that includes a remote play feature, which lets Xbox One console owners stream their games to an iPhone. Remote play is different to Microsoft's xCloud service, which streams games directly from servers instead of your own Xbox One console. This Xbox remote play feature will only connect to your own Xbox console, not to xCloud. It's similar to Sony's own PS4 Remote Play feature that's also available on Android and iOS.

You will be able to access an Xbox console over Wi-Fi, or even an LTE or 5G connection, too. As this app takes control of your home Xbox, you can remotely start your console outside of your home. The Xbox will start up without a sound or the Xbox light at the front, and when you disconnect, it goes back into standby after a brief period of inactivity. A new Xbox app arrived on Android recently, and this updated iPhone version includes the same new design and new features.

Bonus feature!

[Narcocide]

Also tricks you into thinking this is a new invention that we haven't already had for decades!

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[bloodhawk]

show us where you have been able to stream Xbox iphones for decades?

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[Narcocide]

With for example, ffmpeg, (amongst other things) we can stream all kinds of stuff to iphones or anything really with a network connection and a video player. That's not new at all. Xbox is a latecomer to this scene and in a typical Microsoft fashion they're going to astroturf over all news of prior art.

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[bloodhawk]

idiot, this isn't streaming pictures, it is streaming gaming that you interact with, and they aren't even remotely suggesting it is anything new except for xbox on iphone.

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[gravewax]

you really seem desperate to downplay this for some reason. It is awesome that they are sticking with their commitment to enabling cross platform access to xbox games. no where does the article or MS suggest this is some amazing new invention. sadly people like you make this community a far worse place, a company you dislike could save a thousand babies and your response would be "they only did it for the publicity"

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[Malays2 bowman]

"you really seem desperate to downplay this for some reason"

  Reverse astrotufing? :|

Re: Bonus feature!

[martynhare]

What is different vs remote capture is the feature of accepting controller input from the iDevice rather than the console. Unless you count what Steam, Shadow, Moonlight, Rainway and boatloads of others do as prior art, this is indeed very new ;-)

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[Malays2 bowman]

"Also tricks you into thinking this is a new invention that we haven't already had for decades!"

  Yes, yes, we all know about PC Anywhere (and I'm talking about the one from the green screen, IBM XT days), but this sounds
like a feature I would actually want.

You can access more games

[HalAtWork]

You could access more games this way, including the ones you have purchased and those you have downloaded to your Xbox from Game Pass. Is there that much more latency than xCloud? It works well for me on PS4.

The only problem is firewalls at different WIFI access points such as at work, so during lunch I have to use my data anyway for something like this. This often makes streaming impractical when away from home.

But why?

[Berkyjay]

Who's asking for this?

probem trying to solve ?

[AlexHilbertRyan]

Maybe the real problem are all those idiots wasting their lives seomwhere else like traffic or commuting or pretending to work in an office.

Remote access == unnecessary virus vector

[Somervillain]

Why did you give remote access? It sounds like a data breach waiting to happen.

OK...so I can play from android/iOS on my local network? That sounds interesting. I'm not sure I want it, but I will give it a try. It might be nice to cuddle up with a game in my bed on a tablet or phone while my wife watches the TV. I don't know...maybe I can stream to another TV when my living room one is not available or something cool like that. I can certainly buy a top of the line router to get it to work with rea

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[RonaldDavros]

Why are you limiting all this to a single streaming application for the Xbox? Do you have a router connected to the Internet? I mean obviously you're clever enough to secure it all, having hand-built the hardware and written the firmware yourself but what about all those other idiots out there? Does your house have doors and windows? Anyone could get in! You should probably cut all lines coming into your house just in case, and line the whole place with tinfoil so the government can't tune into your thought

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[burningcpu]

I'm with you. Listening to some people's logic train derailments is just painful and it's usually easier to just move on, lol.