PlayStation 5 Has a Hidden Setting You’ll Want to Change Immediately

PlayStation users can optimise their PlayStation 5 consoles with this one trick, hidden in the home screen.

A while ago PlayStation sent out an update to its PlayStation 5 consoles that overhauled the home screen menus.

While the overall layout wasn’t changed substantially it introduced a new Welcome screen that’s shuffled into your installed PlayStation games.

Here you can find things like your friend list, your trophies, your clips etc, all in one place so you don’t have to go looking for them elsewhere.

By default there are only three widgets available but Reddit user iiEco-Ryan3166 found out you can add more, and change where you’ll find them on the Welcome screen.

“To begin with, they're all locked to the left side, like Accessibility, Online Friends, and Messages here.. unless you do what I did to get all three of them on the bottom” began iEco-Ryan3166.

The PlayStation user continued: “With minimized Widgets, by enabling a total of nine, including the three that you want and six random ones … Then what you can do is move, with Square, the three that you want on the bottom of each of the three rows (being Messages, Media Gallery, and Wishlist like I have on the video).”

They then explained you can disable all the widgets you don’t want featured and the ones you moved will remain in the same place, changing how it looks and is organised.

It’s a simple change but one that should in theory make it easier for you to get to the features you use the most, which is always a plus.

All in all the PlayStation 5 dashboard could do with more love, as while it’s functional it’s missing character, though it is nice that you can change the background to that of previous PlayStation consoles.