PS5 Owners Can Save Storage Space By Turning Off One Simple Setting

If you don’t have an external storage solution, managing your storage can be a nightmare on PlayStation 5.

As a general rule of thumb, it’s much easier to manage your storage if you focus on completing just a couple of games at a time rather than trying to house dozens of half-finished titles.

This is all complicated by live-service and comfort games though that you keep coming back to between more topical plays.

Much of my personal console storage is taken up by Fortnite, for example, with its endless stream of hefty updates.

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There’s no one-adjustment-fixes-all approach to optimising storage, but there are subtle changes you can make which should ease your woes.

For example, adjusting one of the PlayStation 5’s settings which is automatically toggled on, will free up space you perhaps didn’t realise was being consumed by pointless files.

Your Trophy Achievements May Be Consuming More Space Than Needed

PlayStation’s trophy system is beloved, with many gamers striving to platinum as many games as possible.

One feature that the PlayStation 5 introduced was clipping all of your trophy achievements.

Every time you earn a trophy, your console will automatically capture a video of the exact moment it happened.

Granted, there are some gamers out there who will enjoy this feature and relish in being able to revisit the time they defeated a really hard boss or finally found a certain collectable.

Personally, I’ve never watched a single one of those trophy achievement clips and I won’t be alone in that.

If you’re like me, you could have five years-plus worth of trophy videos you really don’t need.

It’s very simple, thankfully, to disable this feature.

Head over to your settings and select ‘Captures and Broadcasts’ followed by ‘Trophies’.

It should then say ‘Save Trophy Videos’ which you can set to ‘none’. You can also turn off trophy-related screenshots in the same section.

Alternatively, you can adjust the length of trophy clips or just set your console to only record clips for a higher calibre of trophy, like platinum.

Each 15-second trophy clip could be taking up as much as 40MB of data. Think of how that adds up over the years.

If you do choose to completely disable the feature, it’s perhaps then also worth wiping the several years worth of trophy clips you do have already.

To do this, simply head to your Media Gallery and select ‘Trophies’ and you can delete all or individual clips to free up even more space.

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