How do I stop Xbox One games from running updates while playing?

Twice in the last week, I have been playing Batman Arkham Knight on my Xbox One, in the middle of a mission, when all of a sudden the screen went black and then went to a screen that said the game "needs an update", with an option to continue or cancel. After installing the update, the game is reset and my mission needs to be started over from the last checkpoint.

How can I prevent this behavior, so that the game only prompts for updates when it first starts up or while I'm not playing?

It might be important to mention that the Xbox is set for "instant-on" (rather than fully powering down and up), and the game was the last app to be run before the previous shutdown, so it does not "start from scratch" when I run it (I am instead presented with a prompt like "You were last playing as [gamertag]. Do you want to continue (A), change profile (Y), or go back (B)?"

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Best Answer

To make sure a game or app runs from scratch every time make sure when you leave the game or app for the home screen to press the menu button on the controller and scroll down to quit. That'll clear the game/app from resident memory instead of restarting your console every time. As for the updates we too are having a weird issue with them on our 1TB but not our 500GB.

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How do you stop a game from updating on Xbox one?

Here's how:

While on the Home screen, pull the right trigger, and then press the A button \ue3ce to open My games & apps.

Select Queue.

Highlight the active download or installation.

Press the Menu button \ue3ec on your controller.

Select Pause installation or Cancel, depending on what you want to do.

How do I stop my Xbox from updating mid?

Under Latest console update status, you will see the Games & apps box, here go ahead and uncheck the box labeled "Keep my games & apps up to date.

How do I stop my Xbox one from automatically downloading games?

Under Updates, select Keep my console up to date to update your console automatically and Keep my games & apps up to date to update games and apps automatically.

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