How To View Ps5 Clips On Phone

How to upload PS5 screenshots and videos to your phone - the like shooting fish in a barrel manner

The new feature allows you to admission recent PS5 captures via your smartphone. Here'southward how to set up it up.

Sony has rolled out a new feature that'll automatically send recent captures to your smartphone

By | 24 Mar 2022

PlayStation players accept had the ability to capture screenshots and videos on their consoles for years, only it has always been a flake of a pain to get them onto their phones. Despite the adjacent-gen features of the PS5, it has been much the same story – up until at present, anyway.

In a surprise move, Sony has released a new feature that'll automatically upload your PS5 screenshots and videos to the PlayStation app on your smartphone. The rollout was slower than some would like, but it's now bachelor in the UK, US and many other territories.

If you're ane of the lucky gamers with the feature, here'due south how to easily upload PS5 captures to your smartphone right now.

How to automatically transfer PS5 screenshots and videos to your phone

The good news is that there isn't a new software update available to adjust the new feature, which means it should exist available to players running software 21.02-04.l.00 or after.

The problem is that the rollout was slow, with US players seemingly among the get-go in line to access the functionality. It wasn't until 2 months later that the UK and other regions gained access.

But hey, it's here now, and hither's how to activate it:

On your PS5 Home menu, select the Game Library.
Open the Media Gallery app (information technology might be further down if you've not used it before).
If you come across a pop-up informing yous of the new automated upload feature, agree to plow it on. If you don't encounter a pop-up, the feature is nevertheless to gyre out in your region.
Force quit the PS App on your smartphone if it's open.
Open the PS App and tap the Game Library icon.
Select the new Captures menu.
Browse through, and save, your screenshots and clips to your smartphone.

It'south worth pointing out that information technology won't sync every screenshot and video you've ever taken. Instead, yous'll find everything you've captured in the final xiv days – which makes sense, every bit you'll likely desire to share your accomplishments soon after capture.

It's likewise worth noting that it won't upload screenshots captured before you lot enabled the feature, but those captured going forward.

Writer: Lewis Painter, Senior Staff Writer

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