Sony Playstation 5 launched in 2020, and the console completed its two years last November. When a gamer gets a console so powerful the first thing, they do is play the games and experience how their investment has paid off.

They explore the console to try and learn its ways; they experience how the controller works, and altogether they get the feel of it. But sometimes they overlook some very small yet crucial secret details that can come in very handy if used wisely.

So here we list the Top 5 secrets on Playstation 5 that you are not aware of!

You can check your Playtime on Playstation 5

Gamers really love showing off how long they spent playing their favorite game. 100-200 Hours spent in a game world are worth boasting about for sure. And that’s why Playstation 5 has a way you can check your playtime.

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Just press the PS button and go to your profile. Then go to games, and you would see a list of games you have played with the time you have spent playing them.

Turn off your Playstation 5 controller with a single button press

Dual sense controller’s battery life per charge is not very long. All its immersive rumble effects and those adaptive triggers are

game changers, but really take a toll on it. So it is suggested you keep it turned off when not playing any games. To do so, you just have to long press and hold the PS button for 10 seconds and it’s done.

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Keeping your favorite game home page of Playstation 5

When you keep adding games to your console’s library, the older games keep getting pushed, until they are removed from the home screen and added to the game’s library. To prevent this from happening to your go-to game, just press the options button on it and select the Keep on Home option.

Your game would be in your sight forever!

Keeping the mic off while playing games

The dual sense controller has a bunch of awesome features. One of them is an inbuilt mic, it comes in handy when you actually need it. But often you don’t, the problem is that this controller’s mic is always on. But there’s a way to turn it off permanently until you manually turn it on.

Go to settings, sound, microphone, then select microphone on the controller and switch microphone status when logged in to mute.

Getting all your PlayStation captures on your phone

It is highly recommended that you download the PlayStation app as it has numerous qualities of life features. For one, you can remotely install games on your PlayStation 5 through that app. Second, any captures that you take in your console get automatically uploaded to the cloud and show up on your phone. Saving you the hassle of manually transferring them.

Just go to settings and captures and broadcast and turn on Auto-upload.

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So, these were 5 secret features that would really help you with little things that previously made your life a little difficult.