{"id":570682,"date":"2026-04-07T23:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T23:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/570682\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T23:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T23:27:09","slug":"new-ps5-dashboard-update-leaks-and-damn-sony-that-looks-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/570682\/","title":{"rendered":"New PS5 Dashboard Update Leaks And Damn, Sony,\u00a0That Looks Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/the-ps5-music-is-a-whole-existential-mood-1845666790\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PlayStation 5 home menu<\/a> layout is seemingly being tested by Sony, and it looks pretty dang snazzy, moving system apps and the PSN Store icons to a top row for easy navigation.<\/p>\n<p>As first shared on Reddit (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/videotech\/status\/2041493767924895879\" rel=\"nofollow\">via Ben VideoTech on Twitter<\/a>), a person currently enrolled in the PlayStation 5 beta program <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/playstation\/comments\/1se03qt\/new_playstation_home_screen_ui\/?\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">booted up their PS5<\/a> and discovered a new dashboard waiting for them. The new UI, as seen in the Reddit post, seems to move the PSN Store, media, and PS Plus management menu to a new upper area of the dashboard. Players can swap between these parts of the OS using R1 and L1.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2000685477\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image_1775593005376.jpg\" alt=\"Image 1775593005376\" width=\"860\" height=\"603\"  \/>\u00a9Reddit \/ Kotaku <\/p>\n<p>Another person on Twitter shared a different photo of the new UI currently rolling out to some PS5 beta testers, so it seems very likely that this is a real test and not some weird hoax. Sony has yet to confirm a new home layout is in the works for PS5 owners, but considering how finished this looks, I\u2019d expect this to arrive for all players in a not-too-distant system update.<\/p>\n<p>Kotaku has contacted Sony about the leaked beta UI.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">yes, it&#8217;s real <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/h41zWYxDIq\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/h41zWYxDIq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u2727 \uff65 \u043b\u0456\u043a\u0432\u0456\u0434\u043c\u0443\u0440\u043a\u0456 \uff65 \u22b9 \u208a \u2445 * \u2736 (@liquidmurky) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/liquidmurky\/status\/2041450878670938328?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 7, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think this new layout is a smart change! I liked Sony\u2019s last big shake-up of the PS5 home screen, <a href=\"https:\/\/kotaku.com\/ps5-firmware-update-ads-welcome-hub-custom-widgets-1851661075\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">adding useful pins and a startup submenu<\/a>. It\u2019s one of those changes that I barely think about now, yet has been useful to have around. I think it might take a few weeks for my muscle memory to adapt to this new update, assuming it arrives like this on PS5. But I don\u2019t mind. This new shift to moving those icons and apps to the top of the home menu and having them be easily flipped through using L1\/R1 seems very smart, and honestly, I\u2019m not sure why it hasn\u2019t been like this for years now.<\/p>\n<p>                          <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new PlayStation 5 home menu layout is seemingly being tested by Sony, and it looks pretty dang&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[2211,1015,1014,74,7157],"class_list":{"0":"post-570682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-playstation","9":"tag-ps5","10":"tag-sony","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-update"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}