The new Xbox app lets you play Xbox One games on your iPhone or iPad

[Jacob Siegal]

• Microsoft released a redesigned Xbox app for iOS and Android devices this week.
• The new Xbox app allows users to play games from their consoles on their phones and tablets over their network with Xbox remote play and a Bluetooth controller.
• The Xbox app also lets you install games -- even ones you don't own -- on your Xbox One.

One of the more frustrating and perplexing things about owning an Xbox One for the past seven years has been the lack of an official solution for playing those games on iOS devices. I don't mean over the cloud with Xbox Game Pass (although that might not be too far off either), but rather an official remote play app that allows Xbox owners to stream games from a console to their iPhone or iPad. Sony finally added iOS support to its PS Remote Play app last March, and now, with just weeks to go before the Xbox Series X launches, Microsoft has followed suit.

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