While it still has a long way to get, Sony'south PlayStation 5 is capable of a surprising amount of customization. New features have slowly begun trickling in, and thanks to a contempo update, PS5 owners now have more options available to them for fine-tuning their gaming experience on the system. Much like the PS4, you lot can await these features to expand in time, just for now, here's a wait at what PS5 owners are capable of fine-tuning on the latest Sony console.

How to customize the Control Centre

Past pressing the PS button on your DualSense controller, you lot'll be able to access a number of shortcuts and menus related to your games, friends, and more than. If you'd prefer to accept some cards appear in a more prominent position, you tin can highlight a shortcut on the screen, press the options push on your controller, and you'll be given a list of icons. The default ones on your menu are:

  • Home
  • Switcher
  • Notifications
  • Game Base
  • Music
  • Downloads / Uploads
  • PlayStation VR
  • Sound
  • Mic
  • Accessories
  • Contour
  • Power

And there are iii hidden icons that you lot can brand more prominent:

  • Circulate
  • Accessibility
  • Network

You tin highlight the shortcuts that you lot want to employ, rearrange them on the timeline or fifty-fifty remove a few of them to arrange your tastes. If y'all'd adopt to but avoid all of that, concord the PS push downward longer and you'll exist taken straight to your home screen.

How to quickly filter games

How to filter your PS5 library
How to filter your PS5 library

Betwixt the PS5'south SSD, an external difficult drive, and even the selection to increment storage with an additional M2 SSD, you might quickly find your library to be slightly unwieldy. To easily find the games that you purchased, yous tin go to your Game Library and select the option to sort your library alphabetically, by purchase date, past platform, and their buy source to brand life easier. Your PS5 will automatically sort the games that you lot're playing the most, arranging their cards to assistance you become to them sooner.

Unfortunately, the PS5 hasn't nonetheless received the option to sort games into folders, a feature that was present on PS4.

How to plough off background music and sound effects

How to turn off background music and sound effects on PS5
How to plow off groundwork music and sound effects on PS5

In that location'due south a number of subtle audio prompts and cathartic background music on the PS5 abode screen, simply if the sound of silence is more to your liking, y'all can hit mute on these audio features. For people who aren't too fond of how each highlighted game also plays its own unique music, you can change this setting by heading to Settings, selecting Sound, and and so navigating to Sound Output. At the bottom of the menu you tin can find an option to turn off the abode screen music and all sound furnishings.

How to disable popular-up notifications

How to disable pop-up notifications on PS5
How to disable pop-up notifications on PS5

Bellyaching by sure pop-ups ruining your gameplay recording or distracting you during a crucial sequence in your latest game? You can disable those notifications by going into Settings, selecting Notifications, so tinkering with which alerts you'd like to disable. For case, you can disable pop-ups from appearing during broadcast sessions, brand them appear for a shorter period of time, or make certain that they don't brandish whatsoever corner icons.

How to customize the explore feed

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The PS5's Explore hub provides y'all with a selection of video game trailers, news, and livestreams based on the games you have and follow. If you'd prefer to non run across content focused on a specific game, you can head to your library and then click on the 3 dots icon that appears under a game. Choose the Unfollow option, and your PS5 will at present automatically hibernate whatever content related to it.

To have this a step farther, get to Settings, Saved Appointment and Game / App Settings. From here you can check that Spoiler Warnings accept been enabled. While this pick is ordinarily on by default and just for PS5 games, it'south ever worth double-checking to see that it has been activated.

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