Xbox achievements are getting smarter, cleaner, and more personal for testers in the Xbox Insider program, with a visual refresh and powerful new profile controls rolling out now. These quality-of-life tweaks make it easier for Xbox Insiders to celebrate what you are proud of, hide what you are not, and put full completions front and center.
New look for achievement pop-ups
Starting today, select Xbox Insiders can try a refreshed achievements experience that modernizes the classic unlock pop-up. Achievement notifications now sport updated icons and smoother animations for both standard and rare unlocks, giving each achievement a more premium feel. On top of that, notifications will respect your console’s custom color, so every pop-up feels tailored to your profile theme rather than generic.
As outlined in the “Available for Xbox Insiders: New Improvements to Achievements” Xbox Wire post, this is part of a broader push to make achievements feel more celebratory and personal, not just another system message that flashes and disappears. The goal is clear: when you nail that tough challenge or finally clean up a long grind, the moment looks and feels worthy of the effort.
Hide games from your achievement history
One of the most requested features from the community is finally on the way: the ability to hide games from your achievements list. Later this month, Xbox Insiders will be able to remove any title from the visible history on their profile, letting players curate how their achievement journey is presented. That means you can clean out the games you bounced off after 5 minutes, keep only the franchises you care about, or just tighten things up for a more focused look.
Importantly, hiding a game is cosmetic, not a rewrite of your stats. Hidden games will still count toward your total Gamerscore, and gameplay activity will still be recorded across Xbox services. You are not erasing history; you are simply choosing what shows up front and center when friends or other players browse your profile.
Spotlight on 100% completions
Completionists are also getting a nice upgrade. When you have earned all available Gamerscore for a game, that fully completed title will now be highlighted in your achievements list, making it easy to spot at a glance. This lets your hard-earned 100% runs stand out visually, instead of being buried in a long scroll of partially played games.
New filter options make this even more useful, allowing you to quickly surface all your fully completed titles and distinguish them from any games you have chosen to hide. Xbox describes this as an early step in a larger plan to better recognize completion and milestone moments over time, suggesting more ways to showcase achievement mastery may be coming later.
How to test the new achievement features
Right now, these improvements are limited to select Xbox Insiders, with more testers being added over time before the features roll out to all players. If you are already in the Insider program, you can grab the Xbox Insider Hub on console or PC to access preview builds and share feedback directly with the team. If you are not in the program yet, you can join for free by downloading the app and opting into the available previews for your device.
Xbox encourages Insiders to use official support channels and community spaces—like the dedicated subreddit and social accounts—to report issues and suggest tweaks. The company emphasizes that feedback from these early tests directly shapes how and when features like the achievement refresh, hiding games, and completion highlights arrive for the broader Xbox community.
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