Sony's long tradition of incorporating interesting but flawed firmware features continued recently with the addition of automatic Trophy screenshots. This seemed like a great idea, allowing you to commit key moments to history without even needing to think about it. However, it quickly frustrated many when they realised that their hard drive was being filled up with boring images. Fortunately, it can now be disabled.
1. Press the Share button
To switch off automatic Trophy screenshots, you'll need to begin by pushing the share button. We'd recommend doing it from the home screen, but the feature is generally available in most games, too.
2. Enter the Share Settings menu
When the Share screen appears, push the options button to bring up a side menu down the right of the screen. Scroll down to 'Share Settings' and select it.
3. Enter the Screenshot Settings menu
In the Share Settings menu, scroll down to 'Screenshot Settings' and select it.
4. Disable automatic Trophy screenshots
Once you're in the Screenshot Settings menu, you should find an option labelled 'Take Automatically When You Earn Trophy'. This will be checked by default, but select it to remove the tick and you should be good to go.
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I know this would use up LOADS of more Hard Drive space but wouldn't it be better if the PS4 saved say 10 seconds or so of a Video of you getting a Trophy(a few seconds before & after) Then you could watch it back which is better than some(it looks like) random pictures on your PS4 now. I would like that(& of course you can switch the feature off to save HD space to)
Why turn this feature off?? It's a great addition!! Just delete all the unwanted shots, only takes a few minutes at most! I personally love this feature being an avid platinum trophy collector!
@jonny_aces I have a fair number of trophies, and since this feature hit I can count on one hand the number of screenshots that were actually interesting. The rest are either extremely generic, or are screenshots of loading screens. If you want to store a single awesome moment in a game...well we have the share button for that, so you won't miss out on any features if you turn this off.
@Carl-G - nice idea 👍 , plus you could still delete the ones that you don't want. Would also be a good way of sharing how to get trophies
Thank god, I was tired of those screens shots filling up my hardrive.
Is there a way to be able to view Trophy's offline?
@jonny_aces I personally didn't like it, but it's switched on by default. Best to have the option to disable it than not at all!
cheers for this info. I immediately turned this off. 500gb HD's as standard on PS4's and average 30-50gb for each game and you soon run out quickly. Don't need any useless options filling up my HD.
I love the feature, personally. The plat I just got on DA:I had the coolest frame.
That said, since many trophies pop at the end of a round, a level, etc., they end up being on a solid black screen. D'oh!
@Carl-G this is an awesome idea
@Carl-G sorry for this very late reply but seems like Sony devs took your feedback to heart and actually implemented the feature!
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