Microsoft Starts Testing Automatic OneDrive Uploads for Xbox Clips

If you’re using your OneDrive storage to save your Xbox screenshots and clips, Microsoft is about to make your life much easier. This week, the company has started testing a new option to automatically upload your Xbox game captures to OneDrive with Xbox Insiders on the Alpha and Alpha Skip Ahead rings.

As of today, Xbox users can choose to automatically upload their game captures to the Xbox network, but storage is limited there, and you can’t easily download these clips from a PC. As an alternative, Xbox can users manually upload their game captures to OneDrive, but this is cumbersome and in my own experience, not always reliable.

The other alternative is to save all your game clips on an external drive, which is what I’ve been doing for years. However, I’d very much prefer to have all my game captures automatically uploaded to OneDrive, a service I’m already using to back up personal photos and videos.

According to The Verge’s Tom Warren who went hands-on with the feature, it’s currently not possible to upload 4K clips to OneDrive, but Microsoft is working to support that. When the feature is enabled, all new game clips are uploaded to the videos folder in OneDrive, while screenshots are uploaded to the pictures folder. In the Captures app, Microsoft also created a wizard to help users back up their existing Xbox Network clips to OneDrive or an external drive.

It’s likely going to take a few months for this new feature to roll out to all Xbox users, but this should be a very welcome addition for gamers who use OneDrive a lot. Considering that you get 1 TB of storage with a Microsoft 365 subscription, this should really be a no-brainer.