Why Doesnt My Xbox Automatically Download Game Updates

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We've the ultimate fix.

Are you booting up your Xbox One only to find a backlog of game updates haven’t downloaded and are clogging up your queue? Us too.

A temporary fix involves holding down the Xbox One’s on-console power button to fully power it down, then restarting it. While it tends to fix downloads for a couple hours, the problem tends to rear its ugly head not long after.

Here’s what we did to actually fix the problem.

Ensure updates are being downloaded automatically

First, let’s make sure you’ve actually set up automatic download of updates.

  1. Press the Xboxbutton to open the guide.
  2. Select Settings > All settings.
  3. Select System > Updates.
  4. Under Games & apps, select Keep my games & apps up to date if it isn’t already.)
  5. (While you’re here, under Console, select Keep my console up to date if it isn’t already.)

All sorted? Good. Let’s continue.

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Ensure your Xbox has Instant-on enabled

Your Xbox One needs to be in Instant-on mode to download updates.

  1. Press the Xbox button to open the guide.
  2. Select Settings > All settings.
  3. Select Power & startup > Power mode & startup.
  4. Under Power mode, select Instant-on if it isn’t already.

Do you have enough storage space?

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Some of our downloads weren’t actually clogged, but a bit broken — and that’s because we had games with 12GB updates trying to download to a portable hard drive with only 1GB or so of available space remaining. You might need to move some digital games around your various storage options to ensure you’ve actually enough room to update them.

Fixing clogged updates

If you’ve gone through the steps above, things should be working properly. Still having problems? We found that clearing our console’s alternate MAC address — even if we didn’t set a manual one to begin with — actually solved the problem. Here’s how to do it:

  1. Press the Xbox button to open the guide.
  2. Select Settings > All settings.
  3. Select Network >Advanced Settings.
  4. Underneath Alternate MAC address, select Clear.
  5. Select Reboot when prompted.

Hopefully, clogged game updates will be a thing of the past.

Did this work for you? Sound off in the comments area, below.

I have my Xbox One set up to automatically download and install updates, the rest of my settings are shown below:

Is there a reason my games will show an update symbol on their tile, but they still don't download the update until I start the game manually?

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I found a line in the xbox support docs that is, at least for me, inaccurate. It says the xbox will check for updates in the 'off' state (instant-on low power state), which happens every time I shut the xbox down at night. However, that's not working.

What I figured out after reading this, and some trial and error, was that I have my Xbox set to 'never turn off automatically', and for some reason, this turns off the auto downloading. Despite the fact that the docs say it should work regardless of that particular setting's value, as long as you turn your console off once in a while (which I do), I wasn't seeing downloads come through.

But, after switching my console to turn off after 6 hours of inactivity, uninstalling an update, and turning the console off manually, I am now seeing the update download automatically in the 'off' state, as well as in the background after starting the console.

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You have to switch it where it says 'don't turn off automatically' to '1' or '6 hours of inactivity', when the Xbox turns off or you turn it off, then and only then will it update

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If you have your games on external HDD go to Settings and then Power mode & startup, you should have the box 'When Xbox is off, turn off storage' unchecked. This should solve it.

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