Previously only available on Android and Windows devices, Xbox SmartGlass became available for iOS yesterday. The app, accessible through the App Store, allows you to interact with your Xbox 360 via your iOS device. You can swipe through menus, use your device as a keyboard to type messages and search terms much more quickly, and access game-specific SmartGlass content, like the DJ tool in Dance Central 3.
Here's the full list of features from the App Store:
Xbox SmartGlass lets you:
• Navigate your Xbox 360 with swipe and tap
• Use your phone’s keyboard to type to your Xbox 360
• Browse the Internet on your Xbox 360 with full keyboard and zooming
• Play, pause, fast forward, rewind, and stop videos and music on your Xbox 360
• Search the full Xbox catalog of music, video, and games
• Enjoy rich, interactive experiences from select game and entertainment content creators
• Track and compare your achievements with your Xbox friends
• Change up your 3D avatar
• Message your Xbox friends
• Edit your Xbox profile
The Xbox SmartGlass app is compatible with iPad, iPod Touch, and iPhone, though not – apparently – with the iPhone 5, which people have been quick to complain about in the customer reviews. Presumably the app will be updated for the taller display of the iPhone 5, but there has been no word from Microsoft as to when that will happen.
