PS5 Adds a Weekly Wrap-Up Widget While Recently Played Stays Broken

Sony Interactive Entertainment has quietly added a Weekly Wrap-Up widget to the PS5’s Welcome Hub, giving players a snapshot of their week in games without so much as a patch note. The card tracks playtime, trophies and a player’s most-used game, all inside the console’s customizable home screen.

It’s a genuinely useful little addition. It’s also arriving while a far more basic widget, the Welcome Hub’s Recently Played tracker, has sat broken for close to a month with no fix and no explanation from Sony.

Sony Slips a Weekly Wrap-Up Card Into the PS5 Welcome Hub

The card surfaced this week in a post on the r/PlayStation subreddit. The user who shared it did not say whether they’re enrolled in Sony’s beta testing program, and it arrived with no accompanying blog post or social post from PlayStation.

The stats it tracks are simple:

• Most played game – the title a player spent the most hours on that week
• Total playtime – combined hours logged across every game that week
• Trophies earned – how many trophies were unlocked in that span
• Rarest trophy – a snapshot of the hardest to earn trophy claimed during the week

None of this is flashy, and PS5 owners who spotted the card online mostly reacted with mild approval rather than excitement. It reads like the kind of light, shareable recap that streaming apps have trained people to expect on a recurring basis.

Why Doesn’t Everyone Have the Widget Yet?

Sony hasn’t said. Some PS5 owners responding to the Reddit thread said they had already noticed the Weekly Wrap-Up card days earlier, while others said they didn’t have it at all, and PlayStation LifeStyle’s own senior editor could not find it on her console even after manually checking for the latest system update.

“I don’t have this card on my end, even after manually downloading the latest feature updates,” Zarmena Khan, PlayStation LifeStyle’s senior editor, wrote in the outlet’s report on the widget.

That kind of split rollout, live for some accounts and invisible on others, has happened before with Welcome Hub features. Sony has never published a clear policy on how it tests things there, whether by region, account type or beta enrollment, so players are left guessing every time something new shows up.

The Feature This Widget Leans On Is Still Broken

The irony is that the Welcome Hub already has a widget built for this kind of stat tracking, and it hasn’t worked properly since mid-June. Recently Played normally shows a player’s latest game along with hours logged, trophy progress and session counts. It stopped registering new activity for a large number of PS5 owners starting around June 15.

By early July, the damage had spread further. Push Square reported physical disc owners losing playtime tracking entirely, a side effect of Sony’s attempts to contain the original bug.

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Sammy, editor of Push Square, wrote in the outlet’s coverage of the tracking bug.

One player on X, posting as @edj8671, asked why disc owners were being penalized again so soon after Sony’s push away from physical media. Sony has not addressed the complaint publicly.

A Month of Phantom Games, Reset Clocks and Silence

The mess traces back to the middle of June. Here’s how it unfolded:

1. June 16, 2026: Sony confirmed a partial PlayStation Network outage after players began seeing games they hadn’t purchased, some of them explicit adult titles, appear in their libraries and Recently Played sections.
2. June 18, 2026: The Recently Played and Most Played sections appeared to return to normal as Sony worked through the underlying issue.
3. June 19, 2026: Players discovered PSN’s activity clock had effectively rolled back about a month, so games played since then weren’t registering in Recently Played at all.
4. June 28, 2026: PlayStation LifeStyle documented the two-week Recently Played outage, noting the Welcome Hub widget had been rendered useless and Sony still hadn’t commented.
5. July 1, 2026: Sony’s monthly system update, version 26.04-13.42.00, shipped with patch notes reading only that it improved system performance and stability. It did not touch the Recently Played bug.
6. July 3, 2026: Push Square reported the playtime tracker had vanished specifically for physical disc based games, on top of the digital tracking problems already underway.

Nearly a month later, on July 13, the Weekly Wrap-Up card appeared, tracking exactly the kind of weekly activity data that Recently Played still can’t reliably record for a lot of players.

New Widgets Keep Landing While Old Bugs Don’t Get Fixed

Weekly Wrap-Up is at least the third Welcome Hub widget Sony has introduced or tested in less than a year:

Sony’s own account said that November rollout added a new widget and seasonal backgrounds the same day, though it too reached players gradually over the following week. The Community Activity widget fared similarly. Windows Report’s look at the leaked beta showed Fortnite topping 14.6 million weekly players in one regional example, ahead of GTA 5’s 5.13 million on PS5, and Sony has still not confirmed a wider release date for it.

None of that momentum has extended to fixing Recently Played. Sony’s official patch notes for the July update read, “We’ve improved system software performance and stability,” the same boilerplate line the company has used for months of routine patches.

It’s not the only PlayStation decision drawing scrutiny this year. Sony has also faced pushback over pulling single player franchises from PC platforms, a separate move that left PC gamers frustrated about the platform’s direction.

For now, PS5 owners get a shiny new card to admire, and an old one that still can’t tell them what they played last week.

Frequently Asked Questions

What Is the PS5 Weekly Wrap-Up Widget?

It’s a new card in the PS5’s Welcome Hub that shows a player’s most-played game, total playtime, trophies earned and rarest trophy unlocked over the past week. Like other Welcome Hub widgets, it can be resized using the L1 and R1 buttons once it appears on a console.

Why Don’t I Have the Weekly Wrap-Up Widget Yet?

Sony hasn’t confirmed whether the rollout is staggered, regional or limited to beta testers, and some PS5 owners have had it for days while others still don’t. Checking Settings, then System, then System Software, then System Software Update and Settings will show if an update is available for your console.

Is the PS5 Recently Played Bug Fixed?

Not as of Sony’s July 1 system update, which shipped with routine stability patch notes and made no mention of the Recently Played tracking problems that began in mid-June. Players affected should not expect accurate weekly activity until Sony issues a specific fix.

How Do I Check My PS5 Playtime While Recently Played Is Broken?

Hovering over a game’s tile on the PS5 home screen shows an overview of progress, since the Recently Played widget in the Welcome Hub isn’t reliably updating for affected accounts. The PS App’s campaign completion tracking has been hit by the same issue.