Xbox One is gaining great momentum among users with the constant release of trending games through the year. So you’ve just turned on your console and started to download a new game into your system. You might’ve noticed that the download speed of the game/games isn’t that good as it used to be. Well, to counter this issue with your console, there are certain things that you must take action on.
In this guide today, we’ll take you through several methods that you can do your Xbox One to boost that downloading speed for games or any app. The sudden decrease of download speed is caused by your console itself, by yourself, or for some reason resonating with your router. Whatever the matter is, you need to take the right course of action to speed up that progress bar and we’ll list down all the possible steps in the guide below to make this possible. So without any further ado, let’s see how to download Xbox One games faster.
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How to Download Xbox One Games Faster
Here are some of the steps to download the Xbox One Games faster.
1. Quit other games and apps in the background
The first and foremost thing you can do is to quit all the other running games and apps in the background. You should do this especially if you have an application or game that’s running on the internet in the background. As such programs roll in the background, your only internet source gets divided and shared among the different parts of your system, in this case the game you’re downloading and the programs running in the background. This causes the internet to slow down, resulting in slower download speed. You can completely close an app using the steps below:
- Use your controller and press the Xbox button on it
- From the left sidebar that appears, highlight the app or game in the background that feels like it should be closed
- Once you have the program highlighted, press the Menu button
- Choose the Quit option in the menu that appears