Welcome to PlayStation It's a new feature for PlayStation 5 This is the new first screen you see when you turn on your PlayStation. This screen is highly customizable, allowing you to add or remove widgets to prioritize what is most important to you.
PlayStation Welcome also has a background that can be changed to any photo you like, although this background is visible behind your current widgets and will fade when you move away from the PlayStation Welcome icon. While this is not the same theme system as PlayStation 4; players can customize it and at least set a wallpaper that will be visible every time they turn on the PlayStation.
How to Change the PlayStation Welcome Background
PlayStation Welcome will be the first icon you see every time you play PlayStation 5 turns on and pressing down on the left joystick or d-pad will open the welcome page completely. To change the background, open the welcome page and double press to hover over the edit button. Move right twice to select the background option to open the three options you have for backgrounds. Whatever background or photo you select will remain as the background on the welcome page until you select another.
The displayed widgets can be enabled or disabled to display only the ones you want, but three must always be onFor those who want to prioritize wallpaper display over widgets, enable the following three options:
- Battery life
- Trophies
- Shop
While these three will appear as smaller widgets on the left side of the screen, most of the screen will remain open to show your wallpaper.
How to get more backgrounds on PlayStation Welcome
The easiest and most direct way to get a photo from a game as a wallpaper is take it yourself using the screenshot option in any game. The third option opened in the wallpaper menu is your media gallery, which allows you to choose any image you have taken as your wallpaper. This option is not only the simplest, but also guarantees the best photo quality.
Using screenshots too, you can go in PlayStation Store and capture promotional photos of the games to use as wallpaperwhich will always guarantee a high quality photo.
You can find images on a PC and download them to a USB before connecting the USB to your PlayStation. When connected, you will have another option in the Media Gallery app that allows you Open the images on the USB stick and capture them to use as wallpaperalthough this method often produces lower quality images unless you download the right one online to your PC.
