How To Sync Xbox 360 Controller To Xbox One

The Xbox controller is, for our money, the best controller design out there and we were saying that fifty-fifty earlier the Serial X came along. The new ane only has tweaks to what came earlier but even those pocket-sized things have made the all-time better. Grip has been improved, the thumbsticks motion much more than freely, and the elementary button press/concord design to capture a screenshot or record a clip is super handy.

Only how do yous connect controllers to the new Xbox consoles? And tin can you lot still use the sometime-style controllers from the Xbox One for the Xbox Series X? Hither is all yous need to know about that!

How to connect Xbox Series X controller to Xbox Series X/South

If y'all're setting upwards a new controller for your Xbox Series X or Xbox Series S, this is what you demand to do! Get-go things kickoff, make sure that you lot have batteries or a power pack in your Xbox controller. And if y'all practise, it'due south fourth dimension to sync them.

Correct next to the USB port on the console, you lot will observe the pairing button. It's a round lilliputian push button. Printing information technology to showtime the pairing process.

Within a few seconds, printing the aforementioned style push on the controller itself - it is located at the top next to the USB-C connectedness port.

The Xbox Serial Ten or Xbox Serial S will start to flash (from its on/off button) and when it shows a consequent light over again, yous should exist paired upward and gear up to play!

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How to connect Xbox One controller to Xbox Serial Ten

Practise Xbox One controllers piece of work on the Xbox Serial X and the Xbox Series Due south? The answer to that question is aye, they do.

This goes without saying but we volition anyway: anything prior to that will not connect to your Xbox Serial X or Xbox Series S panel. You cannot connect an original Xbox controller or an Xbox 360 controller to these machines.

But if you're wondering, how do I connect my Xbox I controller to my Xbox Series X? Information technology's the aforementioned procedure that nosotros mentioned in the previous section, then merely hold down the pairing push button on your panel (the little circular button next to the USB port) and the matching button on top of your controller (next to the USB-C port) and they should sync upwardly no problem.

How to connect wired Xbox controllers to the Series X?

If you've got a wired Xbox controller, either an official 1 or a 3rd-political party 1, all y'all take to do is connect the USB cable to the corresponding USB port on the front of your console.

Another easy one, so! Literally merely connect the wire to the panel and that's it, inside a few seconds the console will register the controller and it will exist fix to utilize. Again, this is the case for the Xbox One and Series X controllers.

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