PlayStation 5 update finally helps with your DualSense battery life

The PlayStation 5’s latest system firmware update, version “24.06-10.00.00”, is finally out - and with it comes a nifty little feature that will help prolong the battery life of your controllers… as long as you’re using an up to date model.

As Sony announced on their blog yesterday, the new firmware update adds a whole bunch of features PlayStation players have been begging for ever since the PlayStation 5 first dropped back in 2020.

Party chat functions have been greatly improved, allowing players to invite friends to voice chats even if they don’t have them added as a friend on their devices.

3D audio settings have been retooled and enhanced, which means that players can now create a “personalized 3D audio profile” that will allow them to get the best quality out of their headset of choice.

And perhaps most excitingly, you can finally add a background to your PS5’s home screen. The console is finally able to do something that its predecessor could do at launch, over 10 years ago! Wow!

Sony also announced that the PS5 is now capable of offering an “adaptive charging” function… as long as you don’t own a base model PS5.

The new feature, which is exclusive to both PS5 Slims and PS5 Pros (when the latter eventually releases) will allow players to prolong the battery life of their PS5 controllers.

Adaptive charging is, in short, a method of gradually increasing the power output of a device.

By initially charging at, for example, 80% power and working its way up to 100%, the adaptive charging feature will PS5 controllers’ battery lives to last for longer.

It seems like the new function will only work while the PS5 is in rest mode however, so it seems solely aimed at the folks who leave their PlayStation’s running overnight (who said there’s a cost of living crisis?)

Those of us who still have a base model PlayStation 5 will just have to charge our controllers normally though, like the filthy peasants we are.