The Share button on the Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S controller can come in very handy at times, but if you're not overly bothered about capturing screenshots or recording video, you might not really use it all that often.
Fortunately, Team Xbox has realised this, and has begun rolling out a new feature to Xbox Insiders that allows players to remap the button to "a wide range of custom actions" — so it doesn't have to be limited to capturing footage:
As Marie suggests, we could see ourselves remapping the Share button for things like bringing up a Party without having to go into the menus, or having the ability to send a quick message to someone, so it's definitely a neat addition.
As always, this is entering the Alpha and Alpha Skip-Ahead rings first, but as long as there are no issues, it'll likely make its way to the rest of the Insider rings pretty sharpish — followed by a public release in the near future.
Happy with this? Let us know your thoughts down in the comments section below.
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Cool, I make screenshots by mistake because this button serves a different purpose on the Elite controllers.
@Banjo- same here ,the only time I've used the share button is I've hit it by mistake
Cool quality of life feature. Volume for headphones is very useful for me. I do take screenshots occasionally but don't need a dedicated button for it.
My son loves Starlink but every time he puts the holder on the controller or changes any guns it screen shots as goes right over the button. Be great to just remap it or turn off.
More flexibility is always good. You should be able to completely re-map all the buttons to whatever you want like you could with PC; it's all software anyway.
Though I find the screenshot button to be really useful as on my XB1 if something cool happened the second or so it took to open the guide, and then press Y I'd miss it.
FINALLY!!!! Now i can remap this button to finally go straight to Achievements like it should have been designed for!
This is great, always love options.
I do take the odd screenshot or clip, but to be honest I think I would use he button more for something like magnify.
You can just bring up the guide and grab a shot/vid in there instead. A nice little update.
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A quick way to access audio settings would be my favourite option.
I am another member of the club who has only ever hit this button by mistake, so allowing for remapping is a great idea.
Sometimes I like to stream from my console when I don't feel like chatting or futzing around with OBS, so the Share button would be nice to map to streaming. Like, a long button press to Start/Stop the stream, and a quick press to pause it. Hopefully that could be a thing once they re-integrate Twitch (RIP Mixer)
@OliverOwen x1000
I can finally have a use for that button!
Great news. Mapping it to achievements will be perfect. I have screen shots and DVR disabled so it's kinda useless to me right now.
I like the capture button as it is. I use to use the chatpad mappable buttons for capture.
But it seems like these options are available for the chatpad too, So I'll use them that way.
I have never pressed this button.
Can we get the option to remap the equivalent button on the Elite controller to be the Share Button? That's been one of my only complaints with my Elite 2, and I have yet to use the different profiles.
It would be great to use it to toggle between in game and and party chat.
Shame you couldn't map it to a game or app
Just set your favourite game to it and boom, instant access
I also don't really take screenshots so or use the button currently so being able to change this will be great.
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