


This is why, unless you're especially power consumption conscious, you should probably keep your PS5 in rest mode: Rest Mode has a few benefits for you, the player. By default, PS5 will always power down to Rest Mode when you press the physical power button, but you can change this in the settings if you wish. It essentially powers down your console but only into a suspended state, meaning it's still drawing a little bit of power, but not nearly as much as it would if fully turned on. Rest Mode isn't a new feature for PS5, but for new owners of the machine it's worth understanding what this Standby Mode officially does. The next question you might have is what the benefits are of Rest Mode, considering it keeps using power. You can Enter Rest Mode to keep your PS5 sort of half-on and able to do a few specific things (more on this later), completely Turn Off your PS5 (useful for saving power and also the option you must select before unplugging the machine to avoid data corruption), and finally the option to Restart your PS5, which just powers it off and then back on again, sometimes useful for dealing with errors.
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Pressing the power button will then give you the classic PlayStation power options that PS4 owners will be used to. The power button is found to the far right of this menu - right in the corner, where it can at first be easily missed! To see this content please enable targeting cookies. On PS5, things have changed slightly: on the new machine you only need to tap the PlayStation button to bring up the wider menu with tiles, trophy progression, notifications and more. If you didn't want to get up and press the physical button on the machine, back on the PS4 you could press and hold the PlayStation button from more or less anywhere in the system and you'd be able to get to a menu option to turn the machine off. One of the weirdest things about a new console transition is learning about the things that have moved or changed - and on PS5, remotely turning your PlayStation off with the controller has moved!
