Guide: How to Transfer Data from PS5 to PS5 Pro

All data, games, saves, and media covered

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• by Liam Croft 57m ago

How do you transfer data from PS5 to PS5 Pro? With some base PS5 owners looking to upgrade their own PlayStation hardware to what PS5 Pro offers, the topic of your current data and how it's transferred to the upgraded console quickly arises. In this guide, we're going to reveal how to transfer data from PS5 to PS5 Pro.

On this page: How to Transfer Data from PS5 to PS5 Pro

1. 1.How Do You Transfer Data from PS5 to PS5 Pro?
2. 2.How Do You Transfer Data to PS5 Pro without a PS5?
   1. 2.1.How Do You Transfer Save Data to PS5 Pro without a PS5?

How Do You Transfer Data from PS5 to PS5 Pro?

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The easiest and most efficient way to transfer all your data — including your PS5 Profile, PS5 games, saves, and console settings — is to perform a Data Transfer from the base PS5 to the PS5 Pro in the console's Settings. For a quick step-by-step guide detailing how to do this, please see below:

• Turn on your base PS5 and the PS5 Pro and have them connected to the internet on the same network.
• On the PS5 Pro, select the Settings menu, then System Software, and scroll down to Data Transfer.
• Button through the screens that follow, and then the PS5 Pro will search for the base PS5 via the internet.
• Once the two are connected, your data from the base PS5 will be transferred to the PS5 Pro.
• You can check the status of the Data Transfer on the PS5 Pro on the Downloads/Uploads tab.

Following this method, the Data Transfer will carry over the following to your PS5 Pro, either during the initial setup of the console or after from the Settings menu:

• User profile and account information
• PS5 console settings
• All PS5 games installed on the internal SSD
• All PS5 saved data installed on the internal SSD
• All PS5 screenshots and video clips

How Do You Transfer Data to PS5 Pro without a PS5?

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If you're looking to buy a PS5 Pro but will need to get rid of your current base PS5 in order to fund the purchase, there is still a way of performing a Data Transfer, but you'll need to perform some steps before getting rid of the base PS5. You must buy an SSD and transfer your PS5 games to it, then remove the SSD from the system and insert it into the PS5 Pro when you get it. You can then transfer them onto the PS5 Pro's internal SSD and have access to all those games again.

Please refer to our How to Install a PS5 SSD guide for more information covering this process.

If you can't get an SSD to perform this base PS5 to PS5 Pro transfer, the only other option is to individually download all your PS5 games again having logged into your PSN account. This will be a pretty lengthy process if you have access to a lot of games, but it will get the job done.

How Do You Transfer Save Data to PS5 Pro without a PS5?

The only way to transfer your PS5 save data from a base PS5 to PS5 Pro outside of the official Data Transfer process detailed above is through a PS Plus subscription. It is not possible to back your PS5 save data up to an SSD or a USB drive, so your only option is to use the PS Plus' cloud save feature.

If you don't already have an active membership, subscribe for one month and upload all your PS5 save data to the PS Plus cloud. Then, when you switch to the PS5 Pro, go into the Settings and download all that PS5 save data to regain access to it. This is the only way to transfer save data outside of the official Data Transfer offered by Sony; there's no other way of doing it. More information can be found in our PS Plus Memberships guide.

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