Connecting with friends on PlayStation Network is about to get even easier with the PlayStation Messages app for iOS and Android devices, available now. This app gives you a dedicated interface to quickly send messages to people on your friends list, right from your phone. Want to check if your friends are ready for a round of Zombies in Call of Duty: Black Ops III? The Messages app gives you an easy way to gather the team.
We know that Messages is the most used feature of the PlayStation App, so we created the standalone PlayStation Messages app with a more streamlined design in order to get you into your Messages and communicating with your friends faster than ever before.
The app will display your full friends list, sorted by online status or alphabetically. It will also show any Favorite Groups you’ve added to message several people at once. You can send text or voice messages, as well as stickers and attachments.
Making PS4 a socially connected experience has always been one of our core goals, and we think this app will help enhance that connectivity even further. Download the app and let us know what you think in the comments below!
Like many, I feel it’s a bit weird to have the functions split across both apps. THATS SAID, admittedly, the interface and functionality of the PS Messages app is SIGNIFICANTLY better than the core PS App, and is preferred. Good job there guys!
Ultimately one day I’d love to see the PS App as a whole be fully revamped as the messages app is, and combine everything into the one PS App again.
At least the app team did a good job of streamlining access between the 2 apps. Kudos!
I doubt I’ll get an official response since I’m on page 2, but I think it’d be nice to be able to see message headers that are created on the ps3. It’s the one complaint I have about the app. It also wan’t possible in the previous app.
I think its a stupid move as well. The messages section on the PS app do the job for what it supposed to do just fine. There is no need to have another app for the same system. If you realy want to chat so badly on a console, then exchanges your cell numbers, or go to facebook messenger, Skype, geez…
I hated it when the Facebook app ripped messaging out for its own app and I hate it for this, too. Why should I need two apps for something that the original app did just fine on its own?
I think this is an awesome app I like to set up and I like the way they showed the profiles of everybody but I do think you guys can do a lot more with this app like set u this app like make it to where people can talk to each other and see Chaleur on on my cam texan somebody on this app is the tip of the ice it’s when you can see your friends face to face on your phone or on your PlayStation from your phone I’ll that is pretty awesome if you could do that maybe you guys can update this app to do this also in the future
Good idea and all but one problem my ps4 friends refused to continue using ps app mesaging due they hated being in group messages from thier friends and they leave right away, therefor they wont download this new messaging app, and they also unchecked messages alerts on thier ps4 and it will stay that way they said.
So why none of my friends show up as online and they have an “+Friend” icon on their names? Is this gonna be fixed or adding people twice is gong to be a thing now?
I personally like the new app, it seems to be a native app instead of the current “embedded browser” main app and the annoying “we’ll refresh the message window aka CLEAR IT OUT while you’re typing a messy and your friend just sent you one before so now you have to retype twice or thrice”
Ok false alert now my contacts show up properly. Guess it was the app caching things.
By the way I assume the PS3 people sending messages entirely on the subject will still show up as an empty message?