These days, with some games taking up 100GB or more (we're looking at you, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare), it can be difficult to mange your storage effectively on Xbox One.
However, if you play a lot of games, you might find that you've got plenty of leftover add-ons that will clear tens of GB's worth of data - without you needing to remove any precious games in the process.
Here's how you can find this option on your Xbox One:
- Go to 'My Games and Apps' on the home screen
- Scroll down to 'Manage'
- Hit 'Free up space' as seen in the image above
- If you have any leftover add-ons, you'll see an option to 'Uninstall all'
We tested this for ourselves and discovered around 20GB worth of content (including old Telltale episodes, Forza DLC and more), so consider giving it a try! Hopefully it'll solve some of your installation woes for a little while...
How much space have you saved with this feature? Let us know in the comments below.
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It’s a good tip but I still opted for a external hard drive. Hopefully dlc can be re downloaded if you want to play the games again
I have an external hard drive for my Xbox.
I got 6GB of extra free space now thanks to this tip, nice one @FraserG 👍🏻
@MaccaMUFC Awesome, glad to hear!
No offense, but I find it VERY ill-advised to tell people to save space by removing DLC and similar data from their internal hard drives.
It's needed for the games, and there's simply no telling for how long we'll still be able to (re)download these add ons, so better keep them right where they are, or better yet: make a backup on a (second) external hard drive, which is a FAR better option to save space on the internal drive, if you have to.
@ThanosReXXX I get where you're coming from, but this feature is for leftover DLC for games that you've previously removed in the past.
I must have deleted Forza Motorsport 5 about five years ago from my hard drive, and I still discovered some leftover DLC a few weeks ago. I can't ever see myself wanting to go back to that.
As you say, the best option is definitely to keep as much of it as possible on external HDDs, but this is just an alternative for anyone who can't/doesn't want to do that, especially for games they're never planning to play again.
@FraserG Ah, okay. Fair enough, then. Must be Monday, that I missed that... 😉
I guess I'd also remove data for games that I don't play anymore, but I only keep games that I actually want to play anyways, and I mostly have physical games, which I also never trade in, and besides that, I have a MASSIVE backlog, so actually finishing a game has become somewhat of a nearly unreachable goal for me...
@ThanosReXXX I'm with you on the massive backlog thing! Finishing a game is cause for celebration these days
@FraserG Haha, yeah. Indeed...
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