PlayStation App 12+

This app is great, nothing wrong with it at all! Shows you your active friends, clean design, games, trophies, all the works. However I would LOVE to see it more integrated with PlayStation features such as seeing the progression of updates so you didn’t have to wake the PS up from rest mode all the time, remote connection and basic feature control, and perhaps the status of your PS. It’d also be so good if we could share video clips from the PS straight to the App for easy saving and sharing of our clips! And perhaps a cleaner transition to the PS store for buying games and add-ons. Thank you for reading, I’d be thrilled to see these features added :)

Although I love having messaging integrated, I prefer the functionality of the old apps, the only saving grace for me is the ability to use the iPhone to join a party but it’s hardly ever needed. Firstly, why is it I’m only receiving a banner & sound notification for half of the alerts I get? If someone starts a party or invites me I need to know about it! Never had this issue with the message app. What is up with the back button? It keeps changing location with different menu’s & doesn’t work half the time, it’s actually quicker to kill the app & restart. If I’ve viewed all new messages then why on earth leave the ‘notifications’ icon highlighted & consequently the badge icon until I specifically go into the notifications section to clear both??? You removed filters & sort options from the store? Are you kidding me?!? I’ve literally given up searching for a random cheap game to buy as I simply don’t have the time to sort through page after page after page instead of just being able to sort by cheapest price or highly rated, yet again you limit capabilities (in what I can only assume is to reduce maintenance time fixing all of your poor implementations) only to lose more sales. Not only that, it takes several seconds to load the next lot of like 10 images...seriously?!? Clap, clap for Sony!!

The new app is, to put it mildly, pathetic. Putting messaging back into the main app IS a good idea. Unfortunately, they’ve changed the name from PS messaging to “well, that didn’t work.”
Purely apart from the fact that they’ve stripped even more functionality from the app so that it now shows virtually nothing, it now appears that Sony have, once again, forgotten that there’s a thing called an “iPad” that works really well in landscape mode. Which this app doesn’t.

NOTE FOR ALL NEW USERS WHO THINK THIS APP IS GOOD:

Once upon a time, Sony had a PS4 app that worked reasonably well. Not perfectly, but reasonably well.
Note that I said “A PS4 app”.
Yes, ONE app that did everything.

Then some moron decided that they would split it into two apps. Then three apps. Then four apps.
And none of them are of any use. To get part of what you got in a SINGLE app, you now have to switch between four apps. ALL of which forget that you’ve used them before and force you to sign in again. With two factor authentication. Which fails two times out of three.

Yes, I said PART of what you got in the single app. All four together have LESS functionality than the single app had.

Personally, I think one star is being pretty generous.
Put it back as a single, usable app and you might actually show that you care a tiny bit “for the players” instead of “for the payers”