How to Let Another Account Play GTA 6 on Your PS5

This setup is easy to get backwards: sharing needs to be enabled on the account that owns the game, not just the profile that wants to play. Let’s check the owner first, then the console setting. We are covering one shared PS5 here; bonuses and simultaneous play across two consoles need separate checks.

The three parts of the setup

Alex and Sam are just example names to make the setup easier to follow. They are not test accounts, and this is not a claim that we have tested GTA VI sharing ourselves.

Enable the setting on the owning account

1. 1Sign in on the shared PS5 with the account that purchased GTA VI or redeemed its code.
2. 2Open Settings → Users and Accounts → Other → Console Sharing and Offline Play.
3. 3Choose Enable if it is not already enabled.
4. 4Return to the other person's profile and check the installed game's availability. Before release, a normal countdown or lock still applies.

Sony allows this setting on one PS5 at a time. If the owner already shares another console, decide which PS5 should have it before changing anything—you could affect access in the other household. [1]

If the other profile still sees a padlock

• Confirm the owner really has the purchase; installing files does not by itself establish ownership.
• Check the sharing setting while signed in as that owner.
• Check platform service status and whether the game is still waiting for its release time.
• If ownership is correct but a license issue remains, use Sony's Restore Licenses option on the owning account.

You will find Restore Licenses under Settings → Users and Accounts → Other. Sony says restoration does not affect your data. It checks the account’s licences; it does not move ownership to the other player. [2]

Sharing is not transferring

Think of this as access on the shared console. The other profile does not become the purchaser, and Sony says redeemed content cannot be transferred between accounts. Keep the receipt with the owning account and use the supported sharing setting instead of handing over your password. [3]

What this guide does not assume

We have not tested GTA VI’s bonus entitlements, saves or simultaneous two-console play. Those deserve their own answers. Sharing also does not turn the game into split-screen multiplayer. The goal here is simply another account on the same PS5 accessing the purchased game through Sony’s supported setup. [4]

Separate four questions before troubleshooting

Check base-game access first, then investigate bonuses separately. A game tile on a profile is not proof that the profile owns it, and switching profiles does not move the purchase.