How To Use iOS Remote Play App + Dualshock 4

by Dylan Blight

Last week Sony released the Remote Play App for iOS that lets you play your PS4 games on your iPhone or iPad. The only downfall to this (apart from some slight connection issues, of course) is that you have to use an on-screen touch control layout. You can’t sync your PS4 controller directly to your iPhone or iPad, but a workaround has been found to allow you to play your PS4 games with a DualShock 4 on your iOS device.

I hope this guide helps. I saw a lot of people trying to explain how to do this in various YouTube comment sections and it was confusing, so this should be easier to follow.

Let me walk you through this step-by-step.

Step 1.) Make A Second Account

If you already have a second account on your PlayStation 4, good — you’ll need it. If you don’t, you must create one. Grab another email address and make a secondary PSN and profile on your PlayStation. And yes, a full PSN account is required — a guest account will not work.

Step 2.) Sign On To That Secondary Account And Connect

Sign in to the secondary account on your PlayStation 4 and connect it to the iOS Remote Play App by signing into that account there as well. If you were already signed into your main account on the app, you must sign out and log in with the new account.

Step 3.) The Fun Part, Using Your DualShock 4

Press the PS Button on your DualShock 4 and assign its profile as your main account. If you try to assign the controller to the secondary account that’s currently logged in on PS4 and Remote Play, you’ll get logged out of the app. Make sure you click your main profile instead.

It may take a few seconds, but once it does you’ll be able to press the PS Button again to switch profiles on your console over to your main account. Voilà — you are now able to play games on the iOS app using your DualShock 4 controller.

You’ll notice only the DualShock 4 will work (the touch-screen controls won’t) because the app has that “controller” assigned to your secondary profile. It’s no different than logging into two separate accounts on your PS4 with two controllers.

Playing Apex Legends on a tiny screen, controller or not, is still very hard. Have fun though.

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