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Playing video games on the PS4 is great fun, merely developers sometimes need to fix bugs and glitches in their games. Fortunately, updating your PS4 games is easy. The well-nigh convenient way to practise it is to set upwardly automated downloads, assuasive your games to update in the groundwork or while your PS4 is in standby manner. Alternately, yous could update your games manually by choosing the game you're interested in playing, then downloading and installing the update.

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    Turn on your PS4 by pressing the central push on your controller. Press the button over again if yous come across an additional screen that prompts you to do and so. Select your user profile at the side by side screen that asks "Who is using this controller?" Then, press the "Ten" button.[1]

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    Press up on the controller and curl over to the "settings" screen. The settings button is orange and white, with a small logo of a toolbox in a white circle. You lot can notice it between the power options and the trophies card options. Use the D-pad or the left thumb stick to navigate to the settings menu selection, then press "Ten" on your controller to access it.[2]

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    Curl downwards through the bill of fare options to "organization." The "system" option is between "accessibility" and "initialisation." Printing "X" on the controller to access it.[3]

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    Scroll down to "automated downloads and uploads." This menu pick is second from the top, betwixt "system information" and "voice operation settings." Printing "Ten" on the controller to access it.[four]

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    Identify a bank check mark adjacent to "application update files." By pressing the "X" button on your controller after scrolling downward to "application update files," yous'll activate automatic downloads on games and apps. The "application update files" option is betwixt the "saved data" and "install automatically" options.[five]

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    Navigate to the "power settings" menu. Press the circle twice on the controller to backtrack to the "settings" card screen, then curlicue downwards to the "ability settings" option. This carte option has a small white logo next to it in the shape of 2 hands lifting a battery. Press "X" on the controller to access the menu once y'all've scrolled to it.[vi]

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    Prepare the functions y'all want available in rest mode. Select the 2nd menu option, "set functions available in rest mode." This allows games to update even when the PS4 is in rest fashion. If you are a remote play user, you should also select "enable turning on of PS4 from network."[7]

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    Put the PS4 into residue way earlier you plow off the ability. Concord down the central button on the controller, then use the D-pad or left thumbstick to curl downwardly to the "power" option. Scroll over, then select "put PS4 in standby manner."[viii]

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    Select the application you lot want to update in the principal card. Later turning on the PS4 and accessing your account, use the D-pad or left thumbstick to navigate to the game yous're interested in updating.[9]

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    Check for updates through the options carte du jour. With the game you lot want to update still selected, printing the options button on your controller. Coil downwards to the "check for update" pick in the menu that pops up.[10]

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    Go to downloads if the game is set for an update. If there is an update bachelor, you lot'll get a notification that reads, "An update file for this application is available." You'll then be prompted to go to the downloads screen. Press "10" on the controller to admission the screen.

    • If the game doesn't need an update, the PS4 will let y'all know.
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    Select the game and begin the download. At the downloads screen, you'll see a total list of all updates bachelor for your apps and games. Select the game you lot want to update past pressing "10" on the controller, so confirm your decision to update the game.

    • Updates take time. The amount of fourth dimension they take to install depends upon the size of the update file.
    • You tin can play games while the update installs.

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  • Question

    How exercise I update games on PS4? What if I don't have PSN?

    Community Answer

    Click the option button to the right of the middle button. Ringlet down and select "cheque application for update." PSN only affects who you can play with, not if you can update the game.

  • Question

    Is information technology possible to update a game on a PS4 without having internet access?

    Belle K.

    No, it needs to be able to download the update. If at that place's no internet access, it will have nowhere to get the update from.

  • Question

    How long does the updating accept?

    Belle K.

    The update time depends on the size of the update, as well as your cyberspace speed. A big update will take longer than a simple bug fix.

  • Question

    If I update a game, volition it exist the latest version?

    Belle K.

    If you update the game, it will exist the latest version of that game, yes. It is the most recent version of the game that the developers have released.

  • Question

    After downloading an update, volition I need an net connectedness to play the game with the update?

    Community Answer

    Unless the game needs an net connexion, yous should be able to play offline.

  • Question

    If I update a game and pause information technology midway and restart my PS4, will the progress be kept?

    Joel Buzhardt

    Joel Buzhardt

    Community Answer

    Yes, it will just pick up where it left off. The same is true if, god forbid, the power goes out mid update. Information technology all just picks up where it left off.

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