PS4 Tips, Tricks and Fixes

[RageATL]

New update out today:

PS4 8.50 system software features

In Party, you can now enjoy Share Play with players on PS5 consoles.

In Messages, you can now turn notifications on or off for each of the groups you're in. On the group screen, open the options menu and select Turn Notifications Off.

Other updated features

On the game session details screen, you can now use the Request to Join button to ask the session leader to join their game session. The session leader can then send you an invite to join the game session.

When playing a game you've hidden, other players will no longer see that you're currently playing that game.

We've updated the file format for extended storage.

When you connect an extended storage device, its file format will be updated.

After that, you won't be able to use the device on a PS4 that has a previous version of the system software.

The Communities feature is no longer available.

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Originally Posted by RageATL

When you connect an extended storage device, its file format will be updated.

After that, you won't be able to use the device on a PS4 that has a previous version of the system software.
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This worried me. I updated with my external connected before seeing this. But everything seems ok and I was able to launch a game installed on it. The update did not seem to take any longer that usual. I guess it just means you can't connect it to a PS4 that hasn't been updated.