Mine keeps putting in to area and group chat at log on really annoying as I don't want to use voice chat at all, this then reduces my ingame sound, I can't seem to find how to disable voice chat without disabling text chat.

Yes same issue. Also had these hilarious bugs:

When switching characters I can hear guild chat from the character select menu.

People in Cyrodiil are reporting that area voice chat is currently cross faction and super salty.

Both on Xbox NA.

@ZOS_BillE and just for good measure @ZOS_GinaBruno, @ZOS_JessicaFolsom, @ZOS_BrianWheeler

As everyone else has said, voice chat is seriously FUBAR right now on Xbox.

None of the help options available work. Half the time I get the "voice chat is unavailable" issue, but the rest of the time the area option is there but I can't click it. Or it's "active" but no one is in there (when they actually are). Or I'm in group chat, but group chat isn't actually working and says no one is in it even though there's people in my group. Or I'm in one of these dead chats and can't leave. Or I'm in a group but there's no group option. Or I'm solo and there's a group option but no area chat.

Sometimes it will miraculously work, then I'll change zones and it's broken again. This isn't just a me thing either, it's effecting every one of my friends, guildies, people I talk to in Cyrodiil, everyone.

Games broke y'all. The foundation is crumbling to the point that even basic levels of functionality are no longer working.

So, I guess voice chat issues were not resolved today? Or am I missing something? Upon loading in, get inundated with 10 people blaring through the tv. Rather annoying.

It’s better than it was before fixes but acts a lot stranger than the past. Sometimes group chat is missing completely from the list unless you enter and leave area chat first which seems like a bug. Joining a group doesn’t automatically put you in group chat anymore (which I kinda like). Guild chat might say 0 participants even though there are people in there.

There is a cool side effect where I can still hear guild chat while in the character select menu switching toons.

I’ve had guild chat voices other than my own appearing in my game clips where it never did before. (When my game clips actually decide to work that is, but that’s a different issue I’m having).

@ZOS_BillE
@ZOS_GinaBruno,
@ZOS_JessicaFolsom, @ZOS_BrianWheeler

As of today this is still an issue on Xbox NA, at least.
This may seem a minor consideration, a nuisance at most, but this is a deeply social game, and we are still in the midst of social distancing and limiting contact IRL. Most of the players I know, which number in the hundreds, are here socially. Having the basis for guild-wide communication and hangout time broken is bleeding the life out of guilds across the board. If we are here to play together but are limited to dividing up into parties in order to talk, guild participation and cohesion suffers. The longer this persists, the more people who leave the game. The core of most guilds relies on building friendships and playing together.

If you take "social" out of a social game, you lose players, which loses money.

I would caution that this is bleeding away much of the energy and activity which sustain the game as a whole, and will only undermine the work being done to expand the game on the content end.

Help us help you.

Please fix chat so we can all get back to hanging out and loving our guild family groups, and playing to get away from real-life, with the people we enjoy. And to welcoming new players to make them feel at home with a lively voice chat.