PS Remote Play

I really enjoy the convenience that comes from being able to stream my games through my phone. It’s fun to play online as long as I have a good Wi-Fi connection. Overall, good. However, the only problems are that the app tends to be quite finicky and janky. You can’t tab off the app without having to reconnect to the Playstation all over again. This definitely makes it inconvenient to receive texts or phone calls since answering them would mean having to reconnect all over again. Another problem I find is that Bluetooth compatibility with controllers can be weird as i’ve had issues where I couldn’t connect to my Playstation until I had disconnected my controller from Bluetooth first. Other times, in ranked games I play, the controller can sometimes disconnect from your phone and would require you to reconnect by closing out the app and reconnecting to the Playstation again. This problem has gotten me flagged for being AFK multiple times and there’s no easy work around. I hope Sony could give this app some TLC and make it a lot more streamlined and more accessible to use without having other things being super inconvenient

I have been using it at work, via my iPhone hotspot on my iPad mini (2021) for 5-8 hrs a day. I’ve had no issues at all basically when using it with my PS5. First your console needs to be on, or in rest mode, NOT totally off. The proper settings need to be turned on as well, which should be an easy search online on “how to make it work” if you’re unsure. It does what it’s supposed to for me. It plays my games away from home. Here’s some stuff to note from my experience I think; I am only playing offline games or with minimal online connection, I played a PS4 disk game, PS5 disk game and a downloaded game all with the same stability. I had minimal issue with stability, I was using the standard setting for quality, you can give it more oomph to use more data or if you have wifi. It would stay HD most of the time, and sometimes lose quality. Rarely was I getting the connection issue icon, which is good, because I’m playing in a sort of weird spot for network. Anyway, check your settings and restart your devices. I know it’s obnoxious but I can’t understand why others are having issues as bad as they say, however some of these reviews are older.

Before this thing wouldn’t connect at all. But before the update that says it supports the iOS 13 thing was implemented, the update before, that fix a lot, not enough, but baby steps. That update was the one that was running before the current one. Did you know it allowed controller support on the day of the update on my iPhone? I was happy cause I had an extra Xbox one controller lying around and was able to play some games with only issues I’ve ran into before, like telling me my net to slow, never ending error messages and stuff even when I’m on the same WiFi now and then. But after this current version was installed I finally tried that extra Xbox one controller again haha. It now makes the remote play unplayable. Using it would make everything frame skip every few seconds and very easy to disconnect. I was wondering if it was just because of the update, so grabbed my last PS4 controller I bought that hasn’t started chasing squirrels all over the screen while on. Worked perfectly. I know for a fact my Xbox one controller worked perfectly fine before this update cause, I have a very fun memory of my brothers calling my phone to laugh at me cause they saw I was online raiding a base in “let it die” while I wasn’t home. So one question. Did you guys really go so far as to make sure the Xbox one controller works poorly after it worked well before this update or just some “bug” slipped in with the update. Cause that would be hell of funny if it did and I’m pretty sure my phone is not to blame on this one.