How to Reset Your Xbox One to Factory Default: A Step-by-Step Guide

Before we begin, it's essential to understand that resetting your Xbox One to factory default will erase everything on the console. This means that all game saves, downloaded games, and other content will be deleted. However, you can recover some of your games by signing in with your Gamertag through digital downloads.

You should also note that at this time, it's not possible to back up your data to a memory stick. Therefore, if you want to preserve any of your content, you'll need to use the cloud storage option. Please keep this in mind as we proceed with the reset process.

To begin, find the Settings app on your Xbox One. You can locate it by going to My Games and Apps or speaking to your console and asking it to go to settings. Since I've recently used the app, you should be able to find it in the upper left corner of the screen. If you don't see it there, simply scroll to the right until you find it.

Once you're in the Settings app, navigate to System. As you can see, System is already highlighted for me, but you can move your cursor over to it if needed. From here, the process becomes straightforward. Go down to Restore Factory Defaults and select Yes. This will completely erase everything on your console, as stated.

Before proceeding with the reset, make sure that the password has been removed. If you don't have the password, you'll need to contact Microsoft or get in touch with a parent or whoever has access to the password. Once you've taken care of this step, you can hit Yes and everything will be reset to factory default.

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That's all for today's tutorial on how to reset your Xbox One to factory default. I'm Aaron from Zolote, and I'll see you next time.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi everyone this is Aaron for zolote and I'm going to show you how to reset your Xbox One to factory default that means erasing everything on the Xbox One and returning it to as if you just plugged it in for the first time after you brought it home from the store or wherever you got it from now before we do this make sure that you understand this is going to erase everything it will it will erase all game saves all downloaded games and everything else that you might have on your Xbox One however you can recover your games that you've already purchased online through the digital downloads by signing in with your Gamertag everything else you'll probably lose unless you can back it up to the cloud and at this time at least at the time of this recording you cannot back up to a memory stick so please keep that in mind now that we've got that out of the way let's find our Settings app now you can see it's right here but if you don't have it right there you'll need to find my games and apps or speak to your Xbox and ask it to go to settings so we'll go to my games and apps and again I've been in it recently so it's in the upper left but if you don't have it there just scroll to the right until you find it and once you locate it just go into settings once you're in settings we just want to go to system here and you can see it's already highlighted for me but we can just move over to system go into system and from here on out it's prettyy straightforward go down to restore factory defaults move over to yes and hit a and this will completely erase everything as it says here it'll erase all accounts apps games saved games and settings now before you can do this you need to make sure you have the password removed and if you don't have that password you'll either need to contact Microsoft or get a hold of either a parent or whoever has the password before you'll be able to do this once you have that out of the way you'll be able to hit yes and everything will reset to factory default it's pretty straightforward but if you have any other questions please feel free to comment in the comments below and I'll try to answer any questions you might have if you haven't subscribed already please subscribe as always thanks for watching this is Aaron I'll see you next timehi everyone this is Aaron for zolote and I'm going to show you how to reset your Xbox One to factory default that means erasing everything on the Xbox One and returning it to as if you just plugged it in for the first time after you brought it home from the store or wherever you got it from now before we do this make sure that you understand this is going to erase everything it will it will erase all game saves all downloaded games and everything else that you might have on your Xbox One however you can recover your games that you've already purchased online through the digital downloads by signing in with your Gamertag everything else you'll probably lose unless you can back it up to the cloud and at this time at least at the time of this recording you cannot back up to a memory stick so please keep that in mind now that we've got that out of the way let's find our Settings app now you can see it's right here but if you don't have it right there you'll need to find my games and apps or speak to your Xbox and ask it to go to settings so we'll go to my games and apps and again I've been in it recently so it's in the upper left but if you don't have it there just scroll to the right until you find it and once you locate it just go into settings once you're in settings we just want to go to system here and you can see it's already highlighted for me but we can just move over to system go into system and from here on out it's prettyy straightforward go down to restore factory defaults move over to yes and hit a and this will completely erase everything as it says here it'll erase all accounts apps games saved games and settings now before you can do this you need to make sure you have the password removed and if you don't have that password you'll either need to contact Microsoft or get a hold of either a parent or whoever has the password before you'll be able to do this once you have that out of the way you'll be able to hit yes and everything will reset to factory default it's pretty straightforward but if you have any other questions please feel free to comment in the comments below and I'll try to answer any questions you might have if you haven't subscribed already please subscribe as always thanks for watching this is Aaron I'll see you next time\n"