Potential new Xbox feature will automatically mute TV speakers when headphones are connected

(Pocket-lint) - Microsoft is moving connected a diagnostic for Xbox consoles that volition spot audio from speakers automatically muted erstwhile headphones are successful use.

Detailed successful the Xbox Insiders Alpha Skip-Ahead blog, the hole would spot up 1 of the Series X and Series S console's astir tiresome issues - adjacent if it is inactive a comparatively insignificant one.

Currently, adjacent erstwhile an Xbox headset is connected, the measurement connected the display's speakers stays astatine the aforesaid level. This, then, requires a abstracted enactment to guarantee the dependable doesn't tally concurrently.

With the diagnostic hitting the Xbox Insiders program for testing, though, it'll apt beryllium a happening of the past earlier long. And if oregon erstwhile it does, Microsoft suggests it volition look arsenic an enactment successful the audio settings menus.

For PS5 users, of course, this is thing that has been disposable since launch. 

Still, Microsoft isn't stopping determination with the imaginable changes to the platform.

The institution is besides moving connected a caller diagnostic for colourblind gamers - 1 that replicates what we've seen from large titles and adds a filter implicit the apical of menus, movies, apps and games. 

"[The feature] supports aggregate forms of colour blindness, and the filters tin beryllium adjusted to your penchant without impacting performance, screenshots, oregon crippled clips," the blog station reads.

As idiosyncratic with reasonably beardown protanopia, this is simply a invited alteration connected a idiosyncratic level - and 1 that's reasonably overdue. Just however good it's implemented crossed the Xbox OS and games remains to beryllium seen - virtually - but it's a measurement successful the close absorption for those with accessibility challenges. 

Writing by Conor Allison. Originally published connected 20 October 2021.