what is going on guys it's Steven your
semi comprehensive guide and today I
will be showing you how to uh deal with
some lock settings on a ps4 applications
relating to game share so I've seen a
lot of people in the comments of a few
of my videos that pertain to this I have
a lot of questions with a lock icon
appearing under or next to their
PlayStation application uh I personally
have never run into this issue even with
game sharing I have not come across it
but with some people this seems to be a
ever-present issue whenever they've got
a game share or they try to share
PlayStation Plus whatever it is so I
thought I'd detail some really quick
methods on how to deal with that so the
first and most basic fix for this is to
be sure that you have a completed
PlayStation account now what I mean by
that is not only the complete user name
account settings and all that when you
first create your user I also mean
connecting it to a Playstation network
account a lot of people don't seem to do
this which is understandable it's a long
process and linking it to an external
account can take some time but in order
to game share and to share your
PlayStation Plus you have to have
completed the PlayStation Network
accounts linked to both of your users or
all of the users that you are sharing
with so too long into a PlayStation
Network account we will head up you to
settings head over here to account
management and if we have not signed in
already or we have not created an
account already it will give us just the
sign-in option so we will select sign in
and it'll give us this page right here
with the sign-in option as you can see
here my email address is already
autosave but I have it blacked out for
privacy reasons it will not Auto
complete your password because you have
to remember that yourself obviously if
you have not created an account you'll
have to create one so I will just sign
in to mine right here
so once you've signed in or created your
PlayStation Network account just the
sign-in button and it should sign you in
give you all these other options so from
here we can head back look at the main
menu and see if we have our applications
unlocked yet if they have not unlocked
then we will head back up to these
settings see what count management
and then down here to our old friend
activated i0 primary ps4 now as you know
with game sharing and sharing a
PlayStation Plus this is an important
aspect of that to be sure that you have
your PlayStation activated as primary
and if you are game sharing certain
applications might lock due to certain
licensing issues certain games just not
being able to be shared your account may
be in use by the only person who is
sharing the games so be sure to have
this active as your primary if you want
to play them on your own PlayStation 4
we can it back here to the account
management settings menu obviously check
to see if the activation work if it
didn't then that down to restore
licenses this is a method I sort of
glossed over in the game sharing
tutorial but this is important for game
sharing for certain people restoring
their licenses usually fixes the issue
of game sharing games Pete and lock so
we will select restore and it'll take
just a minute here it will close
whatever applications we have open
that's what the message said back there
so just be sure to have any games saved
and closed before you do this process
and as you can see the licenses have
restored like I said this is the main
fix for any game sharing locked games
you'll run into so we can head back here
to the main menu you can check see if it
as unlocked on your games and if you've
done all the methods I presented you
with and they are still blocked try the
age-old fix for all computer console
related issues just restart your ps4
that usually will fix 50 to 70% of all
issues you'll run into on the
PlayStation logging out and logging in
will sometimes help too so just give it
the old restart if you run into any
games locking now one last method we can
try here it doesn't directly pertain to
games being locked but games not being
visible on your home screen or the
library application one way to fix that
is to go from the all tab up here down
to purchased this includes games that
you have not downloaded onto your
Playstation so in theory the games your
friend will have that you have not
downloaded on your ps4 should show up in
this section and if for whatever reason
that applications are still invisible
still not showing up you'll just go to
the store search the game directly and
it should show up and it will give you
the option to just download it without
having to purchase anything so if you've
done all the methods I have presented
with you've searched on the store you've
restored licenses you've done all of
that and the game still won't show up
still won't appear in your library or as
participants just keep in mind that
certain games are our exclusives to
PlayStation Plus and exclusives for just
whatever reason sometimes games just
cannot be game shared this is usually
pretty rare but sometimes certain
developers just don't like their games
being shared so just keep that in mind I
have not run into that issue but I have
seen certain applications that don't
really like the use of sharing so just
keep that in mind so that about does it
for this video I'm pretty sure I
detailed all the methods all the fixes I
can think of but if you are still
running into issues please let me know
in the comment section down below I will
try to help you just detail the issue
and I won't try to figure out a solution
for obviously I'm just going online and
searching for your exact issue should
help - other than that you like the
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guide and be sure to have a wonderful
day
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