Control your Xbox with your iPad

My Xbox Live app update adds iPad remote control so you can swipe your way around the Marketplace

Microsoft is playing nice with Apple, adding Xbox remote controle functions to the iPad version of itsMy Xbox Live app.

You can alreadyuse your iPhone as an Xbox 360 remoteusing the iOS app, while Windows Phone owners have been able to use theXbox Companionapp to control their consoles. Now iPad users can get in on the action too, letting you use a virtual D-pad to navigate your Xbox dashboard, play videos and start games.

So, now that you can use your iPad to control our Xbox, wouldn’t it be nice if Apple let you use an Xbox controller toplay games on your iPad?

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Dan is Editor-in-chief of Stuff, working across the magazine and the Stuff.tv website. 

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