How to delete DLC on PS4 – PlayStation 4 has a pretty meaty hard drive nowadays thanks to the new 1TB option, although that doesn’t mean you won’t need to give your console a spring clean every now and then. This is as much true for downloadable content as it is full games.
How To Delete DLC On PS4
Maybe you’re fed up with a Call of Duty map pack? Perhaps an expansion for Destiny isn’t doing it for you anymore? Or more alarmingly, a file had become corrupted? Well, in that case, you’re going to need to remove it from your PS4—after all, some DLC eats up gigabytes of data, so there’s no point in letting it sit around on your console.
So, can you remove DLC from your PS4? Yes. However, there’s a catch.
Unfortunately, removing DLC isn’t as simple as it should be, and you’ve Sony to thank for that, who have provided no way to delete individual DLC. You see, you can’t just go into the file management settings and click a box to remove, say, The Last of Us’ Left Behind DLC. Instead, you’d have to remove the whole game from your PS4 hard drive to get rid of the DLC, then install the game again.
Everything is lumped together under one file in terms of the game data, including the file itself, patches, and any DLC. As such, the only thing you are able to remove separately are your save games. So, if you need to remove just one piece of DLC, you’ll have to delete the game entirely, and grab it again.
No doubt people will be a little miffed to find this out, and if you ask us, it’s a bit of an egregious oversight on Sony’s part not to allow an easy way to move DLC for the PS4. With any luck, a new PS4 update will remedy the situation, but for now you’ll have to use this workaround to delete any unwanted content.
How to reinstall DLC on PS4
So, now you’ve deleted your unwanted files and got your game back. At some point you may want to re-install the DLC, which is much more straight forward. The easiest way to get your downloadable content back is by visiting the PSN Store via your PC browser.
Install your game first, then head to the PlayStation Store on your desktop or laptop. Sign in and select the dropdown menu from under your profile name. Go to Download List and find the DLC that you originally downloaded that want to put back on your console. Click Download to your PS4.
Hopefully Sony will add a patch at some point to make it easy for us to delete DLC on PS4, but for now this is the only way!