APPLE is upgrading your iPhone with the ability to link PS5 and Xbox Series X/S controllers.
The new update means you can play iPhone games using the next-gen console joypads.
You can already pair older controllers to the iPhone.
But with the iOS 14.5 update, your iPhone and iPad will gain support for the PS5’s DualSense – and the Xbox Series X gamepad too.
The update is available in beta right now, and will roll out more generally in the coming weeks.
The PlayStation DualSense controller is particular impressive, thanks to its next-gen tech.
What’s special about the DualSense controller is that features “haptic” tech – to let you “feel” the game.
The term “haptic” literally means “relating to touch”, and so it’s about providing better touch feedback to your hands.
This replaces the more traditional rumble system you’d find in typical console joypads.
There are more vibrating motors in your controller (including the triggers and joysticks).
It gives the DualSense what PlayStation calls “a broader range of feedback”.
“Crashing into a wall in a race car feels much different than making a tackle on the football field,” said PlayStation boss Jim Ryan.
“You can even get a sense for a variety of textures when running through fields of grass or plodding through mud.”
The new controller will also feature adaptive triggers – technology built into the L2 and R2 trigger buttons.
Developers are able to program the resistance of these triggers so you can feel the “tactile sensation of drawing a bow and arrow”, for instance.
