Capturing, editing, and sharing gameplay of your favorite games can be a great way to enhance your gaming experience, even allowing you to create your own gameplay content. With Xbox, capturing gameplay is as easy as clicking a button. But when it comes to editing or backing up your game captures, consoles often lack the necessary tools.
Fortunately, Xbox offers a quick and easy way to move your game captures to an external storage device. You can back up your captures and use any editing tools available on your phone or PC.
But how do you move your game captures from your Xbox One or Series X|S consoles to an external storage device? Let’s find out.
Where to find and manage your Xbox game captures
To get started with moving game captures to an external storage device, you first need to know how to manage your game captures on Xbox.
The Xbox Captures app is Xbox’s built-in app for capturing gameplay on your console. This makes finding and managing your capture game on Xbox easy and streamlined. Most importantly, by using the Xbox Captures app, you can edit, share, and move your game captures from your Xbox console.
Since Xbox Capture is the default Xbox app for Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S consoles, you just need to go to My games and apps and upload it to view and manage all your available Xbox game captures.
In addition to letting you manage your game captures, the app makes moving your game captures from one location to another incredibly easy. In addition to moving screenshots to external storage, you can upload Xbox screenshots directly to OneDrive. However, this would lose the backup of your captures on physical storage.
How to set up your external storage on Xbox
You must connect external storage to your Xbox One or Xbox Series X|S to move your game captures. However, you cannot simply connect any external storage to your console, you must meet the following requirements:
- If you want to use your external storage for games and apps, it must have a capacity of 128 GB or more. But if you plan to only move game captures, any size external storage device will work.
- Your external storage device must support a USB 3.0/3.1 connection in order to connect to your Xbox.
If your external storage device meets these specifications, all you need to do is plug your external storage device into one of the available USB ports on your console.
Once you’ve done that, your console may give you two options for your storage device: use for media either Format storage device. To move game screenshots, select use for media. Some forms of USB storage, such as USB drives, will not require a prompt and will be used by default for multimedia purposes only.
Once you’ve formatted your connected external storage or designated it to be used solely for managing media files, you’re ready to start moving game captures from your console to your connected storage.
How to Copy Game Captures to Your External Storage on Xbox
Now that you know where to manage your Xbox game captures and have successfully connected an external storage device of your choice to your console, you’re ready to start transferring Xbox game captures.
To copy Xbox Game Captures to a connected external storage device, follow these steps:
- Press the Xbox button to open the guide menu.
- Select My games and appsfollowed by See everything.
- Highlight Applications and select the catches app
- once the catches load the application, select Manage.
- Choose the clips you want to move to your external storage device and select Copy to external storage.
Your Xbox will automatically start copying all your selected game captures to any storage device you have connected to your console. The screenshots can be found inside a folder titled Xbox Capture Copies on your storage device.
Get the most out of your Xbox’s external storage features
By copying your game captures to a physical external storage device connected to your Xbox, you ensure that the captures you need to edit or back up are safe and accessible.
Using portable storage allows you to more conveniently transfer your game capture copies from one device to another. Still, by using other forms of external storage, you can enhance the features offered by Xbox external storage support and even expand your console’s overall storage for games and apps.