A concrete example: As Game of Thrones was being shown on the TV via Xbox 360, a SmartGlass-enabled tablet displayed a map of Westeros and other relevant information about the show. It's a great app, especially the Xbox One to PC game streaming portion, but there's one thing in particular it's missing. There's one reason to keep the Smartglass app installed on your PC. The Xbox app is an app for Windows 8, Windows 10, Android, and iOS.It acts as a companion app for Xbox video game consoles, providing access to Xbox Live community features, remote control, as well as second screen functionality (formerly branded as SmartGlass) with selected games, applications, and content. Xbox One SmartGlass is the perfect companion app for your Xbox One, both in your living room and on the go. Connect and control your Xbox One. Stay connected with the games and gamers you like. And add a new dimension to your console entertainment with the mobile device you already own.
We often get to see bugs surface in some major online services whenever the new year rolls in. This is usually because of server-side issues due to date change. Something similar has happened with the Xbox One SmartGlass app on Windows and Windows Phone. The app is crashing due to a date bug, apparently SmartGlass thinks that we're not in 2015, instead we're back to 31st December 2013.
This date bug was first reported on reddit where someone also posted a screenshot showing the messaging app has started timestamping messages with 12/31/2013. It was initially thought that the bug was limited to the messaging app but this bug is also the reason why Xbox One SmartGlass is crashing on both Windows and Windows Phone.
Twitter users experienced something like this last week when they were kicked out of the mobile apps automatically. On Tweetdeck users saw posts backdated by an entire year and that's because Twitter's servers though it was 29th December 2015 already, they jumped an entire year ahead causing those issues. Twitter took a few hours to resolve this.
The only workaround that has been floated on reddit involves moving back the system date to 2013, which isn't really the right thing to do, unless the only thing you use on your device is SmartGlass. Hopefully a fix will be rolled out soon, shouldn't take too long to put together anyway.
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People have been putting quite a few crazy predictions on their 2020 bingo card but I doubt anyone saw the return of the Xbox One SmartGlass app coming.
Adobe premiere latest version 2017. Last week, on Christmas Day to be exact, the old app began reinstalling itself on some user's Windows 10 devices despite the fact that it had been replaced by the newer Xbox app several years ago. Bestbuy microsoft office.
I noticed it downloading when I went to manually check for app updates in the Microsoft Store app, something I like to do every now and then so that I have an idea of what apps have updated with new features. Seeing its app icon in the update list was definitely a surprise but what was really odd was the fact that I'd never actually had the SmartGlass app installed on my Surface Pro. It's a newer model that I got just over a year ago. Something on Microsoft's end seems to have pushed the app out to users.
One potential reason for the re-emergence of the Xbox One SmartGlass app could be to help gamers complete Xbox Achievements that require its use. Strange thing is though, the app doesn't appear to work. Any attempt to log in simply results in an error.
The whole thing is very strange. Windows 8 on xbox one.
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