For some of you Xbox players, you might have been keen on making screenshots and video clips to store on your account. It’s a great way to showcase some memorable moments and highlight some accomplishments during your gaming escapades. However, if you keep those clips and images stored on your Xbox account, you might need to hurry up and prepare a backup. Tomorrow, Microsoft is kicking off its new policy, which would only allow Xbox player content to be stored on your account for a total of ninety days.
Thanks to Insider Gaming, we’re getting a reminder that this new policy is taking effect tomorrow, January 9, 2024. This will start the new process that would allow content to be available on your Xbox account for a total of ninety days. Afterwards, the content will be deleted. It’s unfortunate if you relied on your account to keep your storage intact. Regardless, if you haven’t already made a backup, you don’t have much time now. There are means to backup your content both in the cloud or through an external storage drive. So, if you haven’t already done so, you have today to get the job done.
This will hopefully ease up on the resources for Microsoft as well. But much like Insider Gaming noted, we don’t know if this mass deletion will occur all at once. Tomorrow could come, and all the stored content might be removed entirely. Meanwhile, there’s always the chance that some content will be deleted in waves. In that case, your content might be around for a bit longer, but it’s uncertain just how long you’ll have the content accessible.
So it’s best to just get through the backup process today ahead of the new policy. Likewise, this is a good reminder for those who start saving their content tomorrow. You’ll have a few months to enjoy it on your Xbox account before Microsoft removes it. Those of you who wish to keep those memories alive and view them at your leisure will want to ensure you make backups regularly. Hopefully, none of your cherished clips or screenshots are taken out before you manage to get them stored on the cloud or an external storage drive.
If you’re looking for an official guide on how to back up your captures, then you can view Microsoft Xbox’s post right here. This will show you how to keep your content through various mediums such as the OneDrive cloud storage service.
