PS5 Hidden Trophies: How to Reveal One or the Whole List

Hidden trophies on PS5 are trophies whose name and description are concealed until you earn them, usually because they would spoil a story moment, and you can reveal them yourself from the Trophies menu at any time. Since a September 2022 system update, the PS5 also lets you reveal every hidden trophy in a game at once with a per-game Reveal All toggle. This page covers both methods, how to avoid spoiling yourself while still planning a platinum, and how hidden trophies differ from hiding games on your profile.

We checked this against PlayStation's trophy and privacy support pages, Push Square's September 2022 report on the Reveal All option, The Sixth Axis's PS5 trophy feature guide and Seeking Tech's step-by-step walkthroughs in November 2026.

What a Hidden Trophy Actually Is

Every trophy list is built by the game's developer, and the developer chooses which entries appear as hidden. A hidden trophy still counts as part of the list, still has a grade, and still adds the same points to your level as any visible trophy. What changes is presentation: until it unlocks or you choose to reveal it, the list shows a placeholder instead of the trophy's title and description.

The reason is almost always spoilers. Seeking Tech's guide notes that trophies are hidden to prevent spoilers and suggests waiting until you have at least beaten the main campaign before viewing them. A trophy called something like "defeat the final boss" would reveal nothing, but one named after a surprise character, a late plot twist or a secret ending would give the game away in your menu before you ever reach that point.

Hidden status is a display setting, not a lock. Hidden trophies unlock the same way as any other trophy, and revealing one changes nothing about how it is earned. That also means a hidden trophy can be just as missable as a visible one, which is the main reason platinum hunters reveal them early.

How to Reveal a Single Hidden Trophy

If you only want to know what one entry is, reveal it individually and leave the rest of the list covered. Seeking Tech's PS5 walkthrough lays out the steps:

1. From the home screen, select your profile picture in the top-right corner. In a game, press the PS button and select your profile picture in the control center.
2. Choose Trophies, then select the game.
3. Highlight the hidden trophy and press X to open it.
4. In the pop-up, press Square to show the hidden information.

The trophy's title, description and grade then appear. The Sixth Axis described the same per-trophy reveal at the PS5's launch in November 2020, where the option was labeled Show Hidden Information under the Options menu. Either way, only the trophy you selected is revealed, so the rest of the list stays spoiler-free.

How to Reveal All Hidden Trophies at Once

Push Square reported on September 7, 2022 that a PS5 firmware update added a bulk option. From the Trophies screen, highlight a game that has hidden trophies, press Options, then press X to toggle Reveal All on or off.

Seeking Tech's version of the steps adds two practical details. First, the console needs to be on current system software, since the toggle does not exist on older firmware. Second, after you turn it on, press Circle to back out and then reopen the game with X, at which point the full list, including previously hidden entries, is visible.

• It is per game. Turning on Reveal All for one game does not touch any other list.
• It stays on. Push Square notes the hidden trophies stay revealed until you toggle the feature off again.
• It is reversible. Return to the same Options menu and switch Reveal All off to cover the entries again.

Because the setting persists, it is worth switching it back off for story-heavy games you have not finished. It is easy to reveal everything for a quick check, forget, and then scroll past a major plot point weeks later.

Reveal All is at its most useful after the credits. Once the story is done, spoilers no longer matter, and seeing every remaining entry at once turns cleanup into a simple checklist. Pair it with pinning: PlayStation's support page says you can pin up to five trophies per game from the trophies card in the control center, which keeps them at the top of that card while you play. Pin the five hidden trophies you still need and you can check their conditions mid-session without opening the full list.

Revealing Without Spoiling Yourself

For a platinum, you usually need to know about missable hidden trophies before you reach the point of no return. The trick is to get the warning without reading the twist. A few approaches work well:

• Reveal one at a time. If a guide tells you a list has, say, one missable hidden trophy in chapter 4, reveal that single entry when you reach chapter 4 rather than flipping on Reveal All.
• Read the roadmap, not the list. Established trophy guides usually open with a short overview: estimated difficulty, missable count, glitched trophies and playthroughs needed. That summary is spoiler-light and tells you whether you need to worry at all.
• Check for "no missables". Many recent PlayStation releases have nothing missable. PowerPyx lists zero missables for Astro's Playroom and for Astro Bot, so in games like these you can leave every hidden entry covered and still collect them all after the credits.
• Wait for chapter select. When a game offers chapter or level select after the story, hidden trophies tied to story beats can be cleaned up later without risk.

If you want to pick your first platinum with this in mind, our list of easy PS5 platinum trophies includes several games where nothing is missable, which makes them ideal for playing completely blind.

When a Hidden Trophy Does Not Unlock

Hidden trophies cause more "it did not pop" confusion than visible ones, simply because players do not know the exact condition. If you believe you earned one and nothing happened, reveal it first and read the requirement carefully. Many hidden trophies are tied to a specific choice, ending or sequence, and a similar-sounding event may not count.

If the condition was definitely met, run a manual sync from Trophies, then Options, then Sync Trophies, which is the PS5 path PlayStation's support page gives. After that, look for known bugs on the game's guide pages and patch notes. Our troubleshooting walkthrough for PS5 trophies that did not unlock goes through the full checklist, including the Safe Mode database rebuild.

One more check: confirm you are on the right list. Some cross-generation games have one list for the PS4 version and another for the PS5 version, and a hidden trophy earned on the PS4 version will not appear on the PS5 list.

If you suspect a genuine bug, gather evidence before you report it. The PS5 can capture trophy moments automatically: PlayStation's support page lists the setting under Settings, then Captures and Broadcasts, then Auto-captures, then Trophies, where you can save screenshots or videos and filter by grade. With that switched on, the moment a trophy should have unlocked is easy to compare with the one that did, and a short clip gives the developer something concrete to reproduce. It costs a little storage space, but it settles most arguments about whether a condition was really met.

Hidden Trophies Versus Hiding Games From Other Players

People often search for hidden trophies when they actually want to hide their own trophy activity from others. Those are different features. Hidden trophies are about the developer concealing descriptions from you. Hiding games is a privacy setting about what other players can see.

PlayStation's privacy support page lists the PS5 path as Settings, then Users and Accounts, then Privacy, where you can choose a preset profile or open View and Customize Your Privacy Settings. Under your activity, the options include "Who can see your gaming history" and "Hide your games from other players." There is also a separate library setting: PlayStation's support page on hiding games says you can hide a title from Game Library under Your Collection, but that this affects your library only and does not change your profile.

Neither setting removes trophies from your account. If you want a game gone from your trophy list entirely, the only official route is deletion, and that only works for lists with no earned trophies. Our guide to deleting trophies on PS5 explains the rule and the steps. And because hidden trophies count toward your level like any other, our breakdown of how PS5 trophy levels work applies to them in exactly the same way.

If the Hidden Trophies Are the Hard Part

Plenty of hidden trophies guard the toughest content in a game: secret bosses, alternate endings or a final challenge that takes a second full playthrough. If revealing the list showed you a grind you do not want, the store's PlayStation trophy section lists its trophy and platinum services for PS3, PS4 and PS5 games, each with its own page describing the platforms and how trophies are added.

It is worth reading the exact product page for your game before deciding, since options such as timestamp style and which consoles are covered differ between services. If you prefer to earn it yourself, the reveal steps above at least mean the hidden list will not surprise you halfway through.

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