PS4 system software update 8.00 launching today

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PS4 system software update 8.00 launching today

Includes changes to Party and Messages features, new avatars, updated parental controls and more.

UPDATE: Following this update, users are seeing a notification about Party Safety and that voice chats in parties may be recorded. Voice chat recording for moderation is a feature that will be available on PS5 when it launches, and will enable users to record their voice chats on PS5 and submit them for moderation review. The pop up you’re seeing on PS4 right now is to let you know that when you participate in a chat with a PS5 user (post-launch), they may submit those recordings from their PS5 console to SIE.  


Our latest system software update for PlayStation 4, version 8.00, is launching today globally. This update includes changes to the existing Party and Messages features, new avatars, updated parental controls and more.

Here are some of the key features in this update:

Updates to Party and Messages

Following this update, Party and Messages will be more tightly linked together and you will see changes to the UI. Both apps will now use the same ‘Groups’ of players for Party voice chats and message exchanges, instead of having different groups setup across the two apps. So now you can start a Party chat or send a message to the group you’ve previously chatted with across PS4, as well as PS5 when it launches.

New Avatars

We’re expanding the collection of pre-set avatars for players to showcase on their Profile. An array of new avatars from your favorite games will be available, including Bloodborne, Journey, Ghost of Tsushima, God of War, The Last of Us Part II, The Last of Us Remastered, Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End and many more.

Mute all Mics from Quick Menu

We’ve added an option to “Mute all Microphones” in the Quick Menu, so you can easily mute your mics while gaming.

Simplified and more flexible Parental Controls

Under Parental Controls, we’re combining the ‘Communicating with Other Players’ and ‘Viewing Content Created by other Players’ into one setting – ‘Communication and User Generated Content’-  to cover both areas of communication and UGC sharing. This offers a simpler setting that’s easier for parents to understand and apply to their children.

 In addition, children can send a request to their parents to use communications features in specific games. When a child sends this request, the parent will receive an email notification and can choose to make an exception for that game and allow the child to use its communications and UGC features. This will provide more flexibility to both parents and children.

Enhanced 2-Step Verification

The 2-Step Verification (2SV) feature on PS4 will be enhanced to support third party authenticator apps as an option during the activation flow and 2SV sign-in across PS4, mobile and web.

Removal of Event Creation and Private Community Creation

After 8.00, you will no longer be able to create Events or access existing Events created by other users.

We’re also removing the ability to create private Communities under the Community app on PS4. If you already have existing private Communities, you can continue to access them.

Updates to Remote Play App on Mobile and PC

At the same time as 8.00, the existing PS4 Remote Play app on mobile (iOS/Android), Windows PC and Mac, will change its name to PS Remote Play, and the option to connect to PS5 will be added. You’ll need to sign in to PSN from your PS5 to be able to access the feature, so sit tight until PS5 launches this November!

 As a reminder, a PS4 system with a wired connection via a LAN cable is recommended to download the update.

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  • Vita & PSTV (Vita TV) should not be forgotten! Please bring PS5 Remote Play capabilities to the PS Vita and PSTV.
    Thanks!

  • Changes to the UI of messages?….damn here we go again.By the comments it looks like y’all did a big pile of mess as usual,waiting for the night to see how big of a mess it is.

  • Your Update has broken the UI. I have seen several reports of people not being able to load their friends lists and also not being able to even create or see parties in the UI. I can’t play with my friends or talk to them. It has just been a horrible experience with me overall with PlayStation

  • I’m sorry but this update is a step backwards. Aside from the issues others are experiencing that I am too like the friends list not loading and not being able to create a party without error…

    Let me understand this…we can no longer create parties on the fly or join our friends parties? We have to use a premade group from messages or create a new group and only they can join? That is so limiting..who would ever think this a good idea.

    The previous system had way more choice and control. You could create a party ..make it private or public on the fly…invite or kick whoever you want if u were party leader…and in the case of a public parties people could join on the fly.

    I don’t play with a set group of ppl everyday…it’s usually me and a few friends who hangout in a pub party and if more friends wanted to come hang out and join they could. We treat parties like a bar..anyone’s welcome to come hangout and if anyone got outta line…we’d boot them. Simple as that.

    Now we can’t do that anymore. I’m sorry…but this degrades the experience. Please give us back the ability to create parties like we used to. There was no reason to fix or improve what was perfectly fine and working before.

  • please bring my privacy back i wanna talk to my friends without someone annoying joining my parties please bring back the privacy settings

  • I can’t access my friends list, if i go to someone’s profile to add them to party it makes a new one like please fix this sony i wanna play with my friends

  • I have 2 consoles and both have an error in the friends list after this update.

  • Tried making a party in a community and it doesn’t work. Didn’t say anything about that feature being removed, so now I can’t play in a community party with people.

  • Had soooo many issues with this already,just trying to get into a party took nearly an hour,wouldnt let me see my friends list…kept freezing and not loading screens…..i mean come on…. we pay for a service, surely it should work properly…i get that its brand new but really.

  • Looks like to me it just fuct up my friends list

  • Ever since I updated the remote play earlier this morning, can’t seem to log in to use it via pc.
    Every time I attempt to log in with my ps4 credentials, it says “error ocurred”. Anyone else is having this issue?

  • It’s really bad we need the previous version your goal is to make it best and gain players in that way you will lose a lot of players we love playstation we don’t want it bad please we need the previous version

  • Remote play not working on windows now…Good job Sony!!!

    • I’m just hoping they didn’t mean ps remote play not working until ps5 releases, because that would be super dumb and inconvenient!

  • This update is honestly stupid… I can’t kick anyone out of parties if friends invite them and they get annoying. Or I can’t make a new party and invite a friend I have to join the same party he’s in. No more community parties??? Why was this update even released it’s honestly horrible. I’m all for the recording chats more power to ya. But why in the hell did you go and butcher the party system??? This is honestly the worst thing to come to PlayStation… Please for the love of God revert back to how it was before this new system UI is not very cash money of you…

    • Yes the party system is messed up if talking to random people or large groups but I don’t see them going back as its all ps5 party settings so cross system chats work

  • I honestly don’t understand why Sony would update the party chat when there are guidelines that users already follow an now tht I’ve automatically updated my system everything is running super deluxe slower than usual please Sony fix this immediately

  • This new party and messages joint account is so hard to navigate. It was so much easier before the merge.

  • Why are your recording us doing wtf

  • @Sony you can’t get infected with COVID via the chat system and the friend lists, so no reason to patch them broken. 🦠

  • Worse update ever! Please revert back to before this update makes no sense and is not more convenient if that’s what y’all thought. Besides mute all mics

  • THANK YOU PLAYSTATION NOW I CAN’T MAKE A PARTY IN MY COMMUNITY

  • THANK YOU PLAYSTATION NOW I CAN’T MAKE A PARTY IN MY COMMUNITY, WHY WOULD YOU DO THIS?

  • Hey I love this new update I can’t wait for the ps5 to come out idk if you can do trade ins or not

  • Not gonna lie… the way you’ve done the party system is kinda dumb in my opinion… from what ive seen many others share this opinion, I personally prefer the old party system… also no one’s friends list will load either so try fix you stuff please. Thank you

  • Tbh sony might not even listen to us as shown by this update that ruined the fun like sony cares so much about stuff that work perfectly but there’s so many bugs on application due to the ps that sony doesnt care about fixing but making it worse n now worse than before even cheating cant get this bad

  • I dont mean to sound rude in saying this but after I had installed this update I was only lucky enough to get one friend in a party, my friends list, and my friends list for my friends won’t load in any reasonable amount of time. I just don’t see what benefits this update had

  • Might just become an XBOX Player if sony doesn’t fix this by the end of this week

  • Dont tell you that there now recording partys for collection of stuff
    … more like spying

  • I Might just become an XBOX Player if sony doesn’t fix this by the end of this week

  • The new update gets 2 thumbs down
    👎👎

  • Friends is messed up, cant see any of them, unsure whether messaging works still. Most games are not working and ask for me to log into psn (though i am) currently only games that are working are apex and helldivers however mics are not working (i checked to make sure it was not the new mute all toggle)

  • And now my 3 month old Ps4pro will not output sound to my tv…..

  • The party thing man is wrong
    They need to fix that problem because they don’t need to do that it’s messed up and need to go back to a normal party chat.

  • Well made Sony,all PSN Friends got deleted,partys are not avaible and all that you wanted to be better dont work anymore,pls fix the bugs

  • I really didn’t see a need to change the party system. Also, the fact that parties can’t be public is more of a hindrance than actually useful… I mean I don’t know anyone that uses both in conjunction. It would be easier to just have a text chat built into a party. That way, it can still be public or private, and people can also text if they don’t have a mic or something.

    • Its just pathetic that people dont have a mic in 2020. This is not ps3 days where most of us didnt have one. People use these dumb airpods too much, which isnt supported by sony

  • This update is trash

  • This update has made my system slow im kinda worried

  • This update honestly sucks the other way was so much more better but you guys just love ruining nice things like you guys have officially turned the PS4 into a babies console Xbox here I come and how do I leave parties now

  • This update sucks playstation running shop slow I can’t see my friends online or who’s in a party please fix this

  • Why you spying sony are they paying you tp collect on my info are you out of ps5 funds?

  • Like the party, and messages how there pretty much going to be one. Also like the mute all mics option.

  • The new party system is terrible, lots of times I wanna be in a party alone so I don’t have to hear people in game chat. That is no longer an option, I HAVE to be in a party with someone else and Invite them to it. This makes no sense, also there is no option for public or private,I like to have my parties on private so no random friends join. This is a serious step backwards, I just wanna un-download the system update. This is seriously upsetting.

  • Please Reverse the Party Function.

  • Party system is lag at s_ _ t. , please fix it.

  • As far as I have seen, this update is just broken and garbage. Here is one example, a tweet from Gtamen about this update

    “PS4’s Firmware update 8.00 is a horrible step backwards. Private parties are dead, they killed communities and you’re basically no longer allowed to be on your own or in private with your friends. Hot garbage. Give us back our features @PlayStation”

    What the hell you guys even doing?

    • No one can enter your party unless you message them and they are part of the group chat. Which has its down sides as you cannot remove people from the chat so they will always be there unless you make a new one

  • Dude im not gonna lie im just now updating my plastation and this update makes me so happy. Everything about this is amazing. I no longer have to deal with snobby people or randos poping in whenever they want. I can actually have fun without being interrupted every 5 seconds.

  • I love to see people freakout over being told party chat is recorded in the event of people saying stuff and being reported. Old system you could say the most horrible things to people and unless it was a wrote message you couldn’t report it as they had no record of spoken words, now they say they have a new system that does and people scream Sony is spying on us.

    • Yes but thats not really the problem, the problem is friends lists not loading, frozen screens, new party system, and games not connecting due to psn

  • Is anyone else not being able to access tv/media or any games that you own anf have downloaded. Im met with a frozen home screen. I have been turning on and off my console and have the same problem. No friends list cant enter parties im being invited to. Make me think this update wasent even stress tested.

  • This is the worst update ever. I do not like I have to select a group to chat with instead of just creating a party. You now have to concent to be recorded. Looks like I will be changing to Xbox and not buying the ps5.

  • My problem is that if you have a friend that hasnt got the system update you cant join there party be cause it will say (This person is not on the updated version,or is on a PS vita) otherwise its pretty cool.

  • Honestly everything great other than the fact they’ve screwed everything up. Why on earth I would want chat parties mixed with messages idk but it awful if, why the hell do I want my chat parties messing with my messages jusf revert to old system this is the biggest downgrade ever.

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