Gaming Change Sound Output Device for Xbox Party Chat on Windows 11 PC

This tutorial will show you how to change the sound output device used by Xbox Party Chat for your account in Windows 11.

The Xbox app for Windows is where you can go to play and manage PC gaming content on your Windows device. Whether you’re an Xbox Game Pass member, or you’ve bought titles from the Microsoft Store, your games await in the app.

Xbox Party Chat allows you to join friends or other players with video or voice chat while playing a game together, watching a show, or hanging out across Xbox consoles, Windows PCs, and mobile devices.

The Xbox Party Chat uses the default system output device by default to play audio through.

You can select to have Xbox Party Chat use a different connected output device (ex: headphones) than what the system is using (ex: speakers).

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1 Open the Xbox app.

2 Click/tap on the user Profile button, and click/tap on Settings. (see screenshot below)


3 Click/tap on Audio in the left pane of Settings. (see screenshot below)

4 Click/tap on the Output device drop menu, and select an available output device you want used by the Xbox app.

Default is for using the same system output device.

5 You can now close Settings if you like.





1 Open the Game Bar (Win+G).

2 Click/tap on the Widgets menu button on the Home Bar, and click/tap on Xbox Social to open it. (see screenshot below)


3 Click/tap on the Start a party button in the Xbox Social widget, and click/tap on the Party Settings button in the Xbox Party widget. (see screenshot below)


4 Select an available output device you want used by Xbox Party in the Audio output drop menu. (see screenshot below)

Default is for using the same system input device.

1 Open Settings (Win+I).

2 Click/tap on System on the left side, and click/tap on Sound on the right side. (see screenshot below)



3 Click/tap on Volume mixer. (see screenshot below)



4 Under Apps, click/tap on the Xbox app to expand it open. (see screenshot below step 5)

The Xbox app will only be listed here while the Xbox app is open.

5 Select an available output device you want used by the Xbox app in the Output device drop menu. (see screenshot below)


6 You can now close Settings if you like.


That's it,
Shawn Brink