PS4 Second Screen Reviews

by GSUnjb1985

Absolutely mind boggling! We had one great app that handled EVERYTHING on PSN. PS Store, messages, second screen, even watching somebody's Share Play stream ALL FROM ONE APP. Then they removed messages and put them in their own app... what was the point of that at all? Just because Facebook did it? It wasn't a good idea then and it's still a bad idea now...

Now they've really outdone themselves by splitting PS4SecondScreen yet again; Second Screen is gone, now requiring 3 separate apps to do the job of 1...

Who makes these decisions? After Sony releasing a "4K" PS Pro console that doesnt have a 4K disk player, I'm starting to think they are managed by buffoons.

by Nood13z

This is a terrible idea and most gamers like me who are loyal PlayStation fans hate the fact that we need multiple apps for each feature that made the original PlayStation app into a perfect 5-star useful app. Go back to putting all features into one app please. Otherwise you're better off removing the apps for all the bad ratings they'll continue to be getting from all of us. The PlayStation app alone when it first released and all its features put altogether in one app used to be perfect! Perfect I tell you! Now it's all ruined and separated and useless!! Hmph! 😡

by Jfink9464

I never had an issue with Sony deciding to split their app into 3, but today changed my mind completely.

While attempting to sign into the second screen app, I had to verify I was a human signing it. Nothing out of the ordinary there, or so I thought. Either Sony’s authentication system is bugged/broken or it is THE WORST system in the world. For the sake of making this review I sat there for 5(!!!!!!) minutes doing every dumb picture verifier known to man....and I got nowhere.

I have other means of doing what I needed to, but having this happen is so frustrating to deal with and I hope that Sony re-evaluates the awful system in place.

by CJ Thomson

I love playing on the PlayStation 4 it is one of my hobbies and with the recently added remote play I thought it was really cool and when I saw this I thought ‘wow I can see the screen on my phone and use the controller to play!’ But sadly this is not the case. Instead it is designed for people who want to swipe up and down, side to side, press the ps button, options, and back. Also it features a almost useless 2nd screen only compatible with very small games that support the feature. It is rather useless. It wouldn’t however if they made it where it mirrors the screen and lets you use your controller instead of the awful ones on remote play. Sorry but that is all I’m saying that people would enjoy.

by Anonumus Veiwer

PS4SecondScreen used to work for the AR studio game on the game called playroom for ps4 now it doesn't work it only happens when I connect to the game on AR studio All the other games for second screen work on that but this doesn't ! I deleted my data for the game and deleted my registered device and reregisterd it again I even deleted PS4SecondScreen and redownload it and it still is stuck in another language that can’t hook up to my ps4.

by Jaytothe^2

Which is weird as the other playstation apps, even the remote play app works fine. Annoying because the keyboard typing function was especially useful when playing games that require typing.

I expect more out of PlayStation and Sony, don’t keep an app around that you aren’t going to support please. Doesn’t make me feel confident in your ability to integrate platforms and maintain connectivity across different brand products.

by Mr.Wheelzies

First there was One app for everything PlayStation 4. Now there are 3 apps. At first I was ok with that. Rather than 1 app doing it all adequately they made 3 to focus on each specific feature to make them even better. That’s what I thought. Instead, I ended up downloading all 3 apps to notice absolutely no performance difference and some even got worse. The main reason I wanted PS4SecondScreen was to be able to turn my PlayStation on as soon as I was connected to my WiFi. PS4SecondScreen never finds my PlayStation. It never lets me do that therefore I really have no reason to even keep it downloaded.

by Thatguyrightoverthere

While I would prefer to have consolidation of the apps again, this does work basically pretty well. I don’t love the giant bright white blank screen however when I’m inputting text on the PS via my tablet. Love having that feature, just don’t love the bright screen on the tablet that goes with it. White screens drain batteries faster, and they make me turn my brightness down which then I have to readjust when I leave PS4SecondScreen .

by Just The Truth101

The apps seems like great concept, however, the addition of the control needs to be fixed. There is a delay for each command which makes it harder to play. It also be great if I was to play my game son the go without having to turn on my ps4. An idea that I want to give is a second screen- full screen, while playing multiplayer id be able to play on a full screen and my friend can be playing on the T.V full screen. Like I said, has potential but needs much improvement.

by Bean-955

PS4SecondScreen isn't working for IPad Mini first Gen. I kno it's an older model blah blah. -__- I have and older version of PS4SecondScreen . It was working flawlessly until around yesterday morning : /. Keeps asking me to sign into my PSN then says "Incorrect Numbers" for the first couple attempts . Once signed in it gets stuck on a solid blue screen. I close PS4SecondScreen and reopen it and does it all over again. Please fix. Thank you.

by Halfandhalfbiscuits

What they have is an unfinished Idea of being able to play your games from your PlayStation straight to your phone no the problem here isn’t PS4SecondScreen itself. Its the fact that they have not incorporated their ideas into the games. More of their games need to have support if the second screen app. The best I can do is a controller. So I won’t get rid of PS4SecondScreen with the high hopes of them using PS4SecondScreen to its full potential. Please sony please. Do what is right

by Robin Trilliams

If PlayStation wants to really make a big impact on their mobile applications as well as their streaming user interface, they should have a feature where PS4SecondScreen allows you to broadcast your gameplay to twitch while simultaneously allowing your phone and camera to stream video to the twitch as a dual feed.

by Luis9479

PS4SecondScreen it’s self is good but when you want to use the control for an iPhone or iOS device it doesn’t allow you. Even though I have an iPhone 8 Plus literally the same size of the ps4 controller 100x the amount of the ps4 controller price it still doesn’t allow you to use it as a controller. Needs to be fixed pleaseee!!! Thank you for the also being free. 👍

by Dude-o

It’s a separate app, not a separate paid app. They didn’t do this for money or any conspirical reason. They most likely did this to streamline the second screen feature into its own thing instead of having to open the “3 in 1” app. I, for one, would rather have this separate so I don’t have to wait for the main app to load. This goes for the Messages app as well: I hated having to wait to navigate the menu just to get to messages, messages should be its own thing. The bottom line is that this does what the main app used to, but without the menu navigation. If you don’t like it don’t download it, it’s not a big enough feature to care about this much.

Although the complaints about it being slow or not conmecting should be looked into. Since they have gone and made into its own thing it should be working perfectly or at the least as well as it would on the main app.

by ShadowJoe

It does what it was meant to do. I’d like it if you could switch to a darker theme when selecting your system, as the white screen is really bright. While i will agree that taking out the feature from the original app was kind of lame, i will probably use this one over the main app from now on because all i used PS4SecondScreen for was for turning on the system while in another room.

by A9chubbs

PS apps are great but there’s one thing that’s missing that would not be difficult to add to one of the many apps they have. The one reason I wanted to download PS4SecondScreen was so I could share a video I recorded while playing Rocket League the night before. We need an app for sharing our Media Library! After downloading I was impressed with everything else the apps were capable of but disappointed it was missing something seemingly simple. Looking forward to this!

by Monteblood

I love everything about PS4SecondScreen it’s useful I use it from time to time, the only thing I see as an issue as of right now is the fact that I can’t control the Netflix app from PS4SecondScreen , Netflix usually have a notification that pops up asking are you still watching, when that pops up I cannot use PS4SecondScreen to push yes to remove the notification. Still overall love PS4SecondScreen just needs work on controlling other apps like Netflix.

by Cemy1

Got PS4SecondScreen a few months ago. It worked just fine, served its purpose. I just needed it to make responding in my community a lot easier. Suddenly this week it can no longer find my PS4 for some reason. Says “No PS4 Found” when it used to just automatically connect. I’ve tried rebooting my PS4, signing out of PS4SecondScreen , deleting and reinstalling PS4SecondScreen , updating my phone and PS4SecondScreen itself. No change. Thank goodness there’s a separate community app!
4 stars because PS4SecondScreen usually did as it was intended to do until recently. It made typing A LOT easier.
I’ll really miss using it:/

by Johnemmet9

PS4SecondScreen is great on my iPhone 6s. You connect it to your PlayStation and can control the ps menu with your phone and text messages controlled by your phone to text faster, and the 2nd screen though says it only works in “2nd screen supported games” which means that there aren’t many games that can use the 2nd screen. Idk if it works worse for y’all but it’s a good app. If you wanna see the ps screen the whole time even on ANY game I recommend purchasing the R PLAY app.

by KraigBurgess

When I first tried PS4SecondScreen on my iPhone7 I could not for the life of me figure out how to make it work. It would just sit on the loading screen and eventually time out and I never got anywhere with it until this time when I installed the PSapp and the Second Screen app at the same time. I opened the PSapp first and logged in and then clicked on the second screen function thru PS4SecondScreen . Now PS4SecondScreen works well and functions smooth on my iPhoneSE, it’s really more of a plug-in than it’s own app

by Johnyboy39

PS4SecondScreen doesn’t work, don’t even bother downloading it. You’re supposed to control your PS4 with PS4SecondScreen but so far it’s only worked 2 times after trying it over and over
And that was for a brief moment then it stopped working again. Just use your PS4 controller or buy a remote. Yeah that’s true but it’s okay to get a little goofball to do you think you’re going on the road to see the car wash your mom is gonna is the time you want me to come home mom I wanna go get to your house I wanna is a time to go ya know what I mean I don’t want you babe babe I’m gonna I wanna was the time you were going on the road to see you babe babe I’ll see ya tomorrow babe love ya babe love mom love ya babe love ya man love ya mom and mom see ya babe love you babe love ya babe love mom love ya mom and mom see ya mom and dad love ya babe love mom love ya babe babe I wanna is your day I wanna is your birthday I wanna was

by Eclectic Nightmare

I was hoping to use my iPhone as a remote control instead of the DS4 to watch video apps on my ps4.

Would be 4, maybe 5 stars EXCEPT:

“Tapping to select” does not register as an actual “X” button press in most video apps, making the main control feature useless.

Could be a great app for people who don’t have room on their coffee table for yet another remote, since there are no reliable physical universal remotes that work for the PS4.

Otherwise App runs with no problems, can access controls for home screen; Even for use on the on screen keyboard... though the swiping “D-pad” feature is quite annoying. Much rather prefer virtual “ x, square, triangle and circle buttons ” and Directional-pad as main controls for PS4SecondScreen instead.