How to Transfer Data from PS5 to PS5 Pro | Push Square
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.
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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:
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:
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, and the SSD won't need formatting. It'll work straight away on PS5 Pro.
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.
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
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