Windows 10: Notifications Delayed on Xbox Game Bar

My notifications are delayed or just don't appear when my friends invite to a party, message me, or invite me to a game. It's been doing this for a couple days now, and it's bugging me. I get the notifications on my phone, not my pc though. I have notifications on on Xbox Game Bar, Xbox, and Windows 11. The Xbox App version is 2306.1001.5.0, the Xbox Game Bar version is 5.823.3261.0, and the Gaming Services version is 13.77.24001.0 .

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Game Bar notification issue

Ive been having this issue for a while now.

Using Game bar on Win10 I do not receive any message/group chat invite/game invite notifications; as a banner, or in the action centre, or even a notification sound.

Since messages have now been exclusively moved to being handled by Game Bar, this leaves me missing out on invitations and other Xbox notifications on my Win10 device when actively playing games or doing anything else.

I have tried all the troubleshooting short of doing a clean install of Win10 that I can think of.

This including:

• Checking that notification banner is on (it was)
  
• Turning off focus assist
  
• Checking background apps (both Xbox and Game bar are "on")
  
• Battery saver is off
  
• Ease of access: notifications are set for 5 seconds
  
• Turned off all settings under Settings>Gaming, restarted machine and turned them back on.
  
• Ran a clean-up AND a System File Checker (SFC) scan in Command prompt (multiple times over the span of a few months)
  
• Restarted Windows Explorer
  
• Updated/checked registry.
  
  • My PC was initially missing the "ToastEnabled" DWORD registry under "PushNotifications" but I have manually added this back. This has also not fixed the issue
    
• Ran the troubleshooter for windows apps through Settings
  
• Manually reset the Windows store using command prompt (wsreset.exe)
  
• Tried "Repair" AND "Reset" in the Apps section of Settings for both the Xbox and Game Bar apps.
  
• Uninstalled and Reinstalled both Xbox and Game Bar apps using BOTH the normal method and manually through Powershell in Admin
  
  • dism /Online /Get-ProvisionedAppxPackages | Select-String PackageName | Select-String xbox
    
  • dism /Online /Get-ProvisionedAppxPackages | `
    
    Select-String PackageName | `
    
    Select-String xbox | `
    
    ForEach-Object {$_.Line.Split(':')[1].Trim()} | `
    
    ForEach-Object { dism /Online /Remove-ProvisionedAppxPackage /PackageName:$_}
    
• Countless Reboots of my machine
  
• Toggling every notification linked button off and on, in both Windows Settings and the Xbox app & Game bar settings
  
• All my apps are updated to their most current version on the windows store
  
• All windows updates are current (no updates left)
  
• Disabled Antivirus (except the built in Windows Defender)
  
• Re-registered Action Centre through Powershell
  
  • Get-AppxPackage | % { Add-AppxPackage -DisableDevelopmentMode -Register "$($_.InstallLocation)\AppxManifest.xml" -verbose }
    

Additionally when im checking the Settings>System>Notifications&Actions apps list, both the "Xbox" and "Game bar" apps do not appear, and there doesnt seem to be a way to add apps to this list, or get them to be recognised by my PC to be added automatically.

Nothing in this list has worked for me and im wondering if anyone else has come across the issue and managed to solve it, as im at a complete loss now.

 

Adding Xbox Game Bar back to Notifications & actions?

Yesterday I disabled gamebar notifications from the System settings. Now I want to enable them again, but when I go to "Notifications & actions" in Settings, the Xbox Game Bar is nowhere to be seen in the app list! Why did it vanish, and how can I add
it back?

 

Xbox Game Bar Not Launching

Hi,

Xbox is one of Windows 10’s default apps. This app integrates the Xbox with Windows, and it includes a handy Game bar that you can take snapshots and record video with. If the Game bar is not opening, we suggest that you follow the steps provided on this
link on how to fix problems with Game bar on Windows 10.

We hope that this information was helpful. Let us know if you need further assistance.