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This wikiHow teaches you lot how to add a player to your list of friends on an Xbox Ane. Adding a thespian to your friends list allows y'all to see updates regarding their activity, view their profile, and invite them to individual matches directly from the Guide console.

Things You lot Should Know

  • Open up the guide panel, scroll to the "People" tab, and select "Notice someone."
  • Enter the friend's name, click on their profile, and select "Add friend."
  • If you demand to remove a friend, click on their profile, select "Alter Friendship," and then select "Remove Friend."

Steps

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    Open the Guide panel. Press the Xbox logo in the heart of your Xbox One controller to do so. You lot should encounter a console pop out from the left side of the screen.

    • The Guide console will open regardless of the current screen you're on (e.thousand., while you lot're in a match).
    • If you aren't signed into your Microsoft Business relationship, you'll see a prompt to sign in at the top of the Guide panel. Select this prompt and printing A, so sign in with your Microsoft Business relationship email address and password before proceeding.

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    Scroll left to the "People" tab. This tab resembles a two-person silhouette at the top of the Guide panel. You lot can printing the LB button to ringlet over to it, or y'all can press the left side of the D-pad.

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    Ringlet down and select Detect someone . Move the selection down to the Find someone option almost the lesser of the Guide panel, and so printing A to select it. This will open a text field with an on-screen keyboard.

    • If you lot want to add together a friend from a recently played game, select Recent players here instead.
    • If you want to select a friend from a listing of suggested players, select Suggested friends here.

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    Enter the friend'southward proper noun. Use the on-screen keyboard to type in the friend's name (making sure to spell it exactly equally information technology appears), and then press the menu button to the right of the Guide button. This will bring upward the friend's contour folio if you spelled their proper name correctly.

    • If you're adding a friend via either the Recent players menu or the Suggested friends menu, find the friend you want to add and select their name.

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    Select Add together friend . It's about the bottom of the profile page. A popular-upward panel will announced.

    • If you lot're calculation a friend via the Suggested friends menu, y'all'll also come across the Add together friend option at the top of the Guide panel.

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    Ringlet downwards and select Submit . This selection is at the bottom of the pop-up panel. Doing and then adds the selected person to your Xbox One'south list of friends.

    • If you want to add the friend to your list of favorites, select the Favorites checkbox before you select Submit.

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    Remove a friend if necessary. If yous e'er want to remove someone from your listing of friends, do the following:

    • Open up the Guide panel and scroll left to the "People" tab.
    • Select the Friends section about the pinnacle of the guide.
    • Select the friend you desire to remove.
    • Select Modify Friendship in the middle of the bill of fare.
    • Select Remove Friend.

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  • You will be seen as a "follower" in your friend'south Xbox contour until they marker you lot as a friend (or a favorite).

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  • By default, any of your friends tin run into your full profile. You can change this setting from your Xbox One's "Privacy & account settings" menu in the Settings app.

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