This actually does affect captures saved to your internal drive. Because they have been deleting those for a long time now "to maintain space on your console". And Microsoft's recommendation was to back up to Live. But now they are also being deleted from live. So people who think they are safe because they still have their local copies, they better check again.
Although if you set your gameclip save location to an external drive. Those files are never removed.
[deleted game captures after 30 days stored on xbox console](https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/xbox/forum/all/deleted-game-captures-after-30-days-stored-on-xbox/14ee588c-7ba6-4d3c-8b51-5ffeb4adcad6) - Microsoft support
[Captures stored internally on my XBOX One deleting](https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/xbox/forum/all/captures-stored-internally-on-my-xbox-one-deleting/37c65a48-43c0-404e-a5ba-935f382bd933) - Microsoft support
[All captures on my Series X are gone](https://www.reddit.com/r/xbox/comments/uw62ii/all_captures_on_my_series_x_are_gone/) - Reddit
[I can't believe my Xbox deleted my captures by itself.](https://www.reddit.com/r/XboxSeriesX/comments/12ooam2/i_cant_believe_my_xbox_deleted_my_captures_by/) - Reddit
To back up all my clips, I had to plug in an external USB to my Xbox and just downloaded from Live back to my USB stick. Since you can't even access them on web and the phone app sucks ass and only shows you like the most recent 40 clips or something. I had over 700.
I think there's more happening in those links than "Xbox deletes your internal captures." Just read the comments in those threads and you'll see people claiming they've had captures for 7 years. I've had captures for years! There's no 30 day policy like two of those links are claiming... if there was a 30 day policy, they wouldn't have come out with this new policy change stating it's going from unlimited storage to 90 day storage.
So yeah, I'm chalking all that up to software/hardware/user errors. Def not a policy they have to delete your screenshots saved internally.
Yeah I don't know. But my last few years of captures are all gone (thats what drove me down the google rabbit hole of missing images a while back). They are still on Xbox Network. The oldest capture on my Series X is 100 days old. All rest have been removed and now only live in the cloud.
And when I originally stumbled upon this issue I was in a playthough of Cyberpunk and getting a lot of screens from that game. Back then noticed only my recent Cyberpunk clips were saved locally and all my old game clips were on Xbox Network only. And since then - even those Cyberpunk captures have been deleted and are on Xbox network only.
Yeah idk, def a weird phenomenon. Could be a case of overwriting or the console trying to make storage available. For me I've been pretty good about not letting my captures take up too much space... every few weeks I'll go through and purge 90% of what's there anyways. But I nonetheless have captures that are pretty old still.
Yep. "On this Xbox Console." Looking at it right now. 165 captures. I guess I deleted some of the older ones I had one on there at some point these past few months, but at the bottom of the list is a bunch of Fallout 4 screenshots taken 355 days ago... followed by GTA5 screenshots from 171 days ago... followed by Starfield screenshots from 112 days ago... so that whole 30 day thing isn't checking out for me lol.
I think what happened is when they first announced this change, I started uploading everything to OneDrive just for peace of mind, but got distracted with other things and stopped. For the longest time I had Fallout 76 clips on there from November 2020, probably two years old.
[Just found a thread from October of this year](https://www.resetera.com/threads/psa-your-captures-on-xbox-get-deleted-without-warning-so-back-them-up-if-you-want-to-keep-them.774644/). Lots of people in there also experienced the same as me. Microsoft has been are stealth deleting users captures from some consoles. Don't know if it's a bug or it's just what they do.
If it's a bug, Microsoft should probably fix it, but it's not intentional. And if it's not a bug, it's almost certainly something else related to updates, corrupted memory, users deleting and not remembering, etc. I had captures on my xbox one for years. My current oldest one on my series x post clean out is currently sitting at a year. Microsoft isn't stealth deleting captures on your internal. They have no reason to do that, much less do it stealthily. They'd just tell you and have the policy details on their web page.
Sometimes Xbox firmware updates delete all your clips stored on the console. It has unfortunately happened to me several times because I have gotten updates more frequently over the years since being in the insiders update preview program.
I used to do a lot of in game photography, and I didn't realise that Microsoft didnt just keep them on my console.
I lost everything from Assassins Creed Origins and Odyssey.
I was devastated.
Did this on my main console just a few days back and still have to work through my 2nd and backup consoles. (Thankfully they have way less back-catalogue).
Please remember to do this everyone, you never know what might be sentimental in a year or so when the people you've played things with suddenly are offline or your own lives change and so does how you game or what you play. Have had clips of friends who have passed, friends who were young when we met (all married with kids or trying for them now etc.) But the silly clips we all made together are dumb and special to us. Back them up, keep them for yourselves or show them to your kids in a few years.
This is such a bullshit implementation. What they should be doing is warning the user that [X] file is going to be deleted on a given day, and present the user options for saving it if they want to.
I usually have my capture location set to an external drive now, but that means you can’t edit or upload/share a file. So you really have to pick your poison
Tbh I wish they'd just merge OneDrive storage with Xbox Network storage. Let me keep all my captures uploaded and publicly available at the cost of OneDrive storage ... I never used the 15gb of OneDrive storage until they forced me to move my captures there. I don't care about OneDrive; I use MEGA and Google One for cloud storage. Everything currently on OneDrive will be migrated to Google One at some point for me.
Ah I remember the days I used think google product was “the One” too lol
then they deleted don’t be evil from their core values and got into bed with the fed lmao
Money?
Everyone has 10GB of free storage available for captures. Everyone started taking captures by accident or more often because the new controllers have a dedicated button to take captures.
Now they want people to upload them to OneDrive to back them up where you get 5GB of free storage so you‘ll need to purchase a new monthly subscription to have enough space for them
You realize you can record to an external hard drive or download them through the Xbox app, right? Your logic might make sense if xbox forced them to go through one drive to see or download them. But they don't. In fact, even with the new policy, you can still do everything you could before and never use one drive ever. You just dont get unlimited storage on their cloud anymore. 100 gb is also a pretty weak storage space if you're a regular recorder. I have a few hundred gigs of captures sitting on my external for sharing. 100 gigs is a couple nights of gaming for me.
Some of these settings will be redundant, but you can hide all of your activity with these settings...
Settings > General > Online safety & family > Privacy & online safety > Xbox privacy > View details & customize:
1. > Online status & history > Others can see your game and app history > set to Friends or Block
2. > Communication & multiplayer > Others can see your activity feed > set to Friends or Block
3. > Game content > Others can see your captures on Xbox > set to Friends or Only me
Settings > Preferences > Activity feed > Share achievements automatically > uncheck
And you can turn off captures and change the function of the capture button on the controller (I use mine for volume control) under Settings > Preferences > Capture & share.
Actual that is fine with me. Xbox warned me I ran out of space when I took a couple of screen shots lol. So, it will be great to start fresh. Any ones I want to save or post I will send to my phone and then download/save them to my photo app.
Depends. Once this change is implemented, any captures uploaded to the Network will be visible through the app for 90 days. Then it'll be deleted. So... yes, you could view them for 90 days.
The Xbox App has no way of seeing what captures exist on your hard drive tho. The app only displays what's been uploaded to the network.
I had entirely forgotten this had been announced. This makes the Capture button on the Xbox Series controller even stupider and it was already a ridiculous feature. I can imagine the savings are noticeable to not host so much junk but man it is a blow for those who care.
I just got 1 month free trial of one drive (100 gb storage). Uploaded everything there, downloaded everything on an external drive and cancelled the trial sub. 🫡
Go to captures, select "manage", tick the capture you want to upload, and the option to upload to OneDrive will be on the right hand side of the screen. Just click it.
My captures got deleted today. Yeah I knew about this but I was under the impression that they stayed for 90 days. Did I misread that? I captured them yesterday and today I go to transfer them to my laptop and they are gone
You made captures yesterday and they were deleted? The 90 day timer starts today tho... any made today will last 90 days, I believe. Everything prior to today was marked for deletion to begin today.
I am curious if a capture made a week ago was deleted today or if they still have 63 days.
Yeah, I made the capture after 11 yesterday morning, and today I looked, and it was gone. I asked around to my friends to see if theirs were deleted but they said no. They still have captures from a month or so ago. I don't get it. Usually I have a USB stick but I only recently got this xbox (x) and yesterday I was so excited to play the game that I forgot about it
I just checked and all my captures from up to 3 years ago are still on the Network 🤷♂️ my guess is that they're slowly rolling it out to all users, you must've just been one of the unlucky first.
Just to be sure, you are talking about captures stored on the Xbox cloud and not those stored on your hardware?
Oh well then that is something else entirely... the cloud ones are due to be deleted today, so long as they're not 90 days old I believe.
The captures being deleted on your hardware is a mystery, some ppl have described that, I personally have never experienced it. I would suggest taking a look at your settings, but also consider that the console may be deleting the captures to make space on your console depending on how full your storage is. I almost always have a few dozen GBs free on my console... so maybe that's why.
Well it's a new console 1tb and I only have 2 games installed 🤷♀️ I'm just confused, I used the same settings as my old xbox but I used a USB or one of those game capture devices so if it was my settings I probably wouldn't know. I'll have a look now
This actually does affect captures saved to your internal drive. Because they have been deleting those for a long time now "to maintain space on your console". And Microsoft's recommendation was to back up to Live. But now they are also being deleted from live. So people who think they are safe because they still have their local copies, they better check again. Although if you set your gameclip save location to an external drive. Those files are never removed. [deleted game captures after 30 days stored on xbox console](https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/xbox/forum/all/deleted-game-captures-after-30-days-stored-on-xbox/14ee588c-7ba6-4d3c-8b51-5ffeb4adcad6) - Microsoft support [Captures stored internally on my XBOX One deleting](https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/xbox/forum/all/captures-stored-internally-on-my-xbox-one-deleting/37c65a48-43c0-404e-a5ba-935f382bd933) - Microsoft support [All captures on my Series X are gone](https://www.reddit.com/r/xbox/comments/uw62ii/all_captures_on_my_series_x_are_gone/) - Reddit [I can't believe my Xbox deleted my captures by itself.](https://www.reddit.com/r/XboxSeriesX/comments/12ooam2/i_cant_believe_my_xbox_deleted_my_captures_by/) - Reddit To back up all my clips, I had to plug in an external USB to my Xbox and just downloaded from Live back to my USB stick. Since you can't even access them on web and the phone app sucks ass and only shows you like the most recent 40 clips or something. I had over 700.
I think there's more happening in those links than "Xbox deletes your internal captures." Just read the comments in those threads and you'll see people claiming they've had captures for 7 years. I've had captures for years! There's no 30 day policy like two of those links are claiming... if there was a 30 day policy, they wouldn't have come out with this new policy change stating it's going from unlimited storage to 90 day storage. So yeah, I'm chalking all that up to software/hardware/user errors. Def not a policy they have to delete your screenshots saved internally.
Yeah I don't know. But my last few years of captures are all gone (thats what drove me down the google rabbit hole of missing images a while back). They are still on Xbox Network. The oldest capture on my Series X is 100 days old. All rest have been removed and now only live in the cloud. And when I originally stumbled upon this issue I was in a playthough of Cyberpunk and getting a lot of screens from that game. Back then noticed only my recent Cyberpunk clips were saved locally and all my old game clips were on Xbox Network only. And since then - even those Cyberpunk captures have been deleted and are on Xbox network only.
Yeah idk, def a weird phenomenon. Could be a case of overwriting or the console trying to make storage available. For me I've been pretty good about not letting my captures take up too much space... every few weeks I'll go through and purge 90% of what's there anyways. But I nonetheless have captures that are pretty old still.
Are you changing to the local only tab? By default it loads up the Xbox Network gallery when you go to captures.
Yep. "On this Xbox Console." Looking at it right now. 165 captures. I guess I deleted some of the older ones I had one on there at some point these past few months, but at the bottom of the list is a bunch of Fallout 4 screenshots taken 355 days ago... followed by GTA5 screenshots from 171 days ago... followed by Starfield screenshots from 112 days ago... so that whole 30 day thing isn't checking out for me lol. I think what happened is when they first announced this change, I started uploading everything to OneDrive just for peace of mind, but got distracted with other things and stopped. For the longest time I had Fallout 76 clips on there from November 2020, probably two years old.
[Just found a thread from October of this year](https://www.resetera.com/threads/psa-your-captures-on-xbox-get-deleted-without-warning-so-back-them-up-if-you-want-to-keep-them.774644/). Lots of people in there also experienced the same as me. Microsoft has been are stealth deleting users captures from some consoles. Don't know if it's a bug or it's just what they do.
If it's a bug, Microsoft should probably fix it, but it's not intentional. And if it's not a bug, it's almost certainly something else related to updates, corrupted memory, users deleting and not remembering, etc. I had captures on my xbox one for years. My current oldest one on my series x post clean out is currently sitting at a year. Microsoft isn't stealth deleting captures on your internal. They have no reason to do that, much less do it stealthily. They'd just tell you and have the policy details on their web page.
Sometimes Xbox firmware updates delete all your clips stored on the console. It has unfortunately happened to me several times because I have gotten updates more frequently over the years since being in the insiders update preview program.
I used to do a lot of in game photography, and I didn't realise that Microsoft didnt just keep them on my console. I lost everything from Assassins Creed Origins and Odyssey. I was devastated.
Did this on my main console just a few days back and still have to work through my 2nd and backup consoles. (Thankfully they have way less back-catalogue). Please remember to do this everyone, you never know what might be sentimental in a year or so when the people you've played things with suddenly are offline or your own lives change and so does how you game or what you play. Have had clips of friends who have passed, friends who were young when we met (all married with kids or trying for them now etc.) But the silly clips we all made together are dumb and special to us. Back them up, keep them for yourselves or show them to your kids in a few years.
This is such a bullshit implementation. What they should be doing is warning the user that [X] file is going to be deleted on a given day, and present the user options for saving it if they want to. I usually have my capture location set to an external drive now, but that means you can’t edit or upload/share a file. So you really have to pick your poison
Tbh I wish they'd just merge OneDrive storage with Xbox Network storage. Let me keep all my captures uploaded and publicly available at the cost of OneDrive storage ... I never used the 15gb of OneDrive storage until they forced me to move my captures there. I don't care about OneDrive; I use MEGA and Google One for cloud storage. Everything currently on OneDrive will be migrated to Google One at some point for me.
Everything goes to DropBox for me. I realize that they want to push their products but I wish we’d have the choice
It's not 15GB's anymore, now the free option is 5GB's🙄
I think it just depends on how old your account is, mine is still 15gb
How olds yours? I think mines from 2012 it was given to me when I was a kid for my birthday so I'm not sure.
2009 or so... I mean if yours was made in 2012 then I don't see why it would have less.
Ooo no you only get 15GB's for email and then cloud storage is 5GB's that's why
Ah I remember the days I used think google product was “the One” too lol then they deleted don’t be evil from their core values and got into bed with the fed lmao
I don't really care, I just want everything in one ecosystem.
100% of the captures I’ve ever done have been done by accident so it they’re gonna clear them for me that’s fantastic.
literally what is the point of this change
Money? Everyone has 10GB of free storage available for captures. Everyone started taking captures by accident or more often because the new controllers have a dedicated button to take captures. Now they want people to upload them to OneDrive to back them up where you get 5GB of free storage so you‘ll need to purchase a new monthly subscription to have enough space for them
You realize you can record to an external hard drive or download them through the Xbox app, right? Your logic might make sense if xbox forced them to go through one drive to see or download them. But they don't. In fact, even with the new policy, you can still do everything you could before and never use one drive ever. You just dont get unlimited storage on their cloud anymore. 100 gb is also a pretty weak storage space if you're a regular recorder. I have a few hundred gigs of captures sitting on my external for sharing. 100 gigs is a couple nights of gaming for me.
Sorry that my comment sounds like a conspiracy. I wanted to suggest that they will save money by not storing them permanently for free anymore
I’m not sure I’ve ever consciously captured a screenshot or video on my Xbox I’ve done it a hell of a lot of times by accident, though
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Some of these settings will be redundant, but you can hide all of your activity with these settings... Settings > General > Online safety & family > Privacy & online safety > Xbox privacy > View details & customize: 1. > Online status & history > Others can see your game and app history > set to Friends or Block 2. > Communication & multiplayer > Others can see your activity feed > set to Friends or Block 3. > Game content > Others can see your captures on Xbox > set to Friends or Only me Settings > Preferences > Activity feed > Share achievements automatically > uncheck And you can turn off captures and change the function of the capture button on the controller (I use mine for volume control) under Settings > Preferences > Capture & share.
Actual that is fine with me. Xbox warned me I ran out of space when I took a couple of screen shots lol. So, it will be great to start fresh. Any ones I want to save or post I will send to my phone and then download/save them to my photo app.
Can I still view my captures through the Xbox app on my phone?
Depends. Once this change is implemented, any captures uploaded to the Network will be visible through the app for 90 days. Then it'll be deleted. So... yes, you could view them for 90 days. The Xbox App has no way of seeing what captures exist on your hard drive tho. The app only displays what's been uploaded to the network.
I had entirely forgotten this had been announced. This makes the Capture button on the Xbox Series controller even stupider and it was already a ridiculous feature. I can imagine the savings are noticeable to not host so much junk but man it is a blow for those who care.
Will this delete the clips on TrueAchievements? As all of my clips are automatically uploaded to my account on there!
Afaik yes because they just download them from the Xbox network whenever you view them and do not store them on their own servers
I just got 1 month free trial of one drive (100 gb storage). Uploaded everything there, downloaded everything on an external drive and cancelled the trial sub. 🫡
How long did the upload take? Also my clips are not uploading I have 400 that didn't work even tried to upload 1 single clip & that didn't work either
So it was like 8 GB worth of clips and images and they all got uploaded in like 15-30 mins
How does one upload to OneDrive? Because I don't have an external hd
Go to captures, select "manage", tick the capture you want to upload, and the option to upload to OneDrive will be on the right hand side of the screen. Just click it.
Does it also delete clips from the xbox in general or just from the cloud 😒
My captures got deleted today. Yeah I knew about this but I was under the impression that they stayed for 90 days. Did I misread that? I captured them yesterday and today I go to transfer them to my laptop and they are gone
You made captures yesterday and they were deleted? The 90 day timer starts today tho... any made today will last 90 days, I believe. Everything prior to today was marked for deletion to begin today. I am curious if a capture made a week ago was deleted today or if they still have 63 days.
Yeah, I made the capture after 11 yesterday morning, and today I looked, and it was gone. I asked around to my friends to see if theirs were deleted but they said no. They still have captures from a month or so ago. I don't get it. Usually I have a USB stick but I only recently got this xbox (x) and yesterday I was so excited to play the game that I forgot about it
I just checked and all my captures from up to 3 years ago are still on the Network 🤷♂️ my guess is that they're slowly rolling it out to all users, you must've just been one of the unlucky first. Just to be sure, you are talking about captures stored on the Xbox cloud and not those stored on your hardware?
Oh no, my cloud ones are still there. These were on my console.
Oh well then that is something else entirely... the cloud ones are due to be deleted today, so long as they're not 90 days old I believe. The captures being deleted on your hardware is a mystery, some ppl have described that, I personally have never experienced it. I would suggest taking a look at your settings, but also consider that the console may be deleting the captures to make space on your console depending on how full your storage is. I almost always have a few dozen GBs free on my console... so maybe that's why.
Well it's a new console 1tb and I only have 2 games installed 🤷♀️ I'm just confused, I used the same settings as my old xbox but I used a USB or one of those game capture devices so if it was my settings I probably wouldn't know. I'll have a look now