How to fix & Clean Stuck Buttons on PS5 Controller (Take Apart Easy!) 

Thanks for the video! Note that never revisions (the new revision has all silver screws) have two screws less, so you do not need to detach the board. Makes this even easier and a bit less error prone.

Thank you so much for the video! My triangle button wasn't working, and I had no clue how to take my controller apart. Your video helped me so much, and now the triangle button works.

All that pain and suffering just to unstick my pause button. You helped me out massively, anyway, so cheers to that :)

Yes. This worked for me! One day my controller started pressing buttons randomly by itself. I didn't drop it and it wasn't dirty. It was clean as a whistle inside. I took it apart, blew on in and put it back together and now it works!

Thank you so much. I dropped my controller and the X button stopped working.. I had to smack it a few times and it would work for about 3 mins before stopping again.. It eventually became so frustrating I threw the controller at the wall. Then I threw it on the ground it the button stopped working entirely. That's when I stopped being a caveman and decided to open it up. Your video made it pretty simple to do. Cleaned up the area, made sure everything was secure and before I could finish putting it back together the button was working again! I accidentally powered it on while still reassembling it lol. Anyone struggling to get the back part off just make sure the little latches on the front are unlatched. Also, I broke the mic.. the cable ripped somehow.. I didn't detach it when I removed the black plate. Ordered new cables on Amazon even tho i don't use the mic but it was $3 and looks pretty simple to fix. Thanks again!

Thanks for video! It saved my controller, even though I wasn't as relaxed as you while opening and cleaning it 😂. The most annoying part was closing it after cleaning, especially the ribbon part.

Just what I was looking for thank you! You just saved me $70 + tax 🙏🏽

I lost one of the final two screws. I thought that like I wasn’t going to find it I didn’t so you and I found out that you can use one from the back of the PS4 controller. I am so glad so happy because I spent like two hours trying to find that screw I didn’t find it so I used PS4 one instead still works

Thanks for the video, it helped a lot. My controller is different but changes in design are insignificant (just two screws less then yours) so thanks again for easy to follow guide.

Thank you man! This helped a lot !My cousin came over, and when I was gone and had just gunked up my controller with peanut butter and jelly tysm!!

Hell yeah. Fixed my controller and got it all cleaned up.

Thanks bro! Fixed some major stickiness today.

Way more tedious than I anticipated but well worth it. Great instructions overall. All for an x button that kept sticking down. Now it works like new

Took me a min to do but thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. Just saved me $80. Worked like a charm when i finalky got the controller back together the right way lol.

The controller i have is a bit different compared to the one in the video but overall the video helped me take apart my controller safely so thanks very much!

My dad snapped the controller out of rage doing this 🤣

What did you use to pry it open/apart? A guitar pick?

Great video, helped me out so much

Yay! I did this and fixed my controller that I accidentally dropped--I thought I was going to have to buy a new one. Thank you!!

Thanks for the video. Much help! All cleaned up and dusted out, now I can rage back in peace! 😃 🙏

Thanks! Helped me clean my x button that my daughter got juice in.

What kind of screwdriver did you use?

This video helped I noticed the flat rubber for the buttons wasn’t letting tho o get pressed so i took it off and rotated it and it worked thanks i also cleaned it like in the video

Thanks needed to fix my speed bottum which involved a different thing but ur basics helped

Cleaning contacts did not make my triangle work again, thanks for the guide, only snapped the set of pins on the bottom trying to remove the ribbon cable and subsequently had the other ends of ribbon cables fall out, used tweezers to get them back, Upon reconstruction my controllers speaker was killed due to me snapping pins The guide is good, I hate ribbon cables, and already bought a new controller thanks

Thank you very much I'm really blind so I ruined controller

very easy to follow along! thanks!

Awesome video. Thanks! ❤

i dont know what year you bought that controller but mine will physically not go back together and ive done this 1000 times. they changed it all.

"Simply pull the ribbon cables" 😅 And........mine just snapped soooooooooooo fkn easyy!!! Thanks hahah

Thank you for the video, I managed to clean my controller with it, very helpful :)

Appreciate it! I bought bad thumb stick extenders and it got all up in there.

Super useful for cleaning out some misplaced pasta sauce😅. Hopefully this will help clean the joystick drift on my other one as well.

AMAZING 🙌🙌🙌👏👏👏 You my man have saved me 70 bucks

Thank you, this video helped so much!!!! i appreciate it!!!

Thank you for the video and great advice!

I thought my controller had terminal stick drift. Thanks to you I was able to operate and realized that it was in fact terminal. Thanks for the guide, found some real dirty areas in need of cleaning. Unfortunately after removing the joysticks and cleaning everywhere with alcohol, pressurized air, and dry paper towels, I was sure I had fixed the issue. After reassembly I turn on my console and immediately hear the dreadful sound of navigating to the leftmost part of the menu in nanoseconds. The cleaning did nothing; thanks Sony for murdering my controller.

Cheers this really helped me out

Destroyed the side trying to take the back part off, have to get a new one over a sticky square button. The worst part is I just took an alcohol and a q tip after and it fixed the problem.

Worked for me!! Thanks

Mine didn’t have that white bar on the inside of the controller, but it’s fixed 😂 now thanks

Legend, thanks mate! 😊

I got frustrated and threw tne controller, it has a crack down the whole subframe

Thanks for the video. This was very helpful!

The ps4 controller was much easier to disassemble

great tutorial!

Best video ever so helpfull

Thank you. Was so damn easy lol

Thank you so much I’m a 12 year old boy and I was able to do this

You didn't do the share and option buttons

I did it, all went well, however, followed every step and finished with two spare screws

This video is clutchhhh👌👌👌

Yo I have a question my Spider-Man limited edition controller has a sticky d pad and idk why I dot. Abuse me controller how do I fix it

Thanks just fixed my controller 😊😊😊

Very helpful… THX !! ;-)

Hard motherfucking controller, bring me the ps4 one , so fuckin easy and I'm not afraid of snapping it in half like this one

Thanks dog. My up button suddenly stopped working. Don't understand why

Thank you mister

So the bottom tag thing snapped and now it's broken and it just would not go in the thing just kept bending

I fucked up the bottom ribbon cable but I don’t really use the mic anyway so it’s fine I guess lol thank you for the help!

1:07 Wait, look!😳he's already broken off the right latch, making this video 😄😂🤣

Thx you bro ssooooo much❤❤❤

I tore the small mic ribbon on accident but when I put it back together the mic worked perfectly fine. What does it do

Take apart easy = breaking 1 latch, 1 microphone and detaching 1 speaker all by accident

DualS*** Buttons are getting stuck in the first month! Old F510 controller could work for years in my hands without cleaning and disassembling

Kinda messed up and popped the triggers off because I thought that was a step

Thanks man big help

i had a few buttons that were a little sticky becusee i splashed some mountain dew on my controller. But all i did and it’s fine now it take a que tip dip it in a little bit of water and swab around the bottom

Did this to fix my up button not working and didn't help. Is this controller just useless now?

Im upset that I even have to do this with a PS5 controller for there to be a video on how to fix them

YOU SAVED MY LIFE TYSM I DONT HAVE TO BUY A NEW ONE

Controller wasn’t working. Did full reassembly and apparently I plugged back in whatever came unplugged

What screwdriver set do you specifically use?

Never clean the flex ribbon cable with isopropanol. The flex ribbon cable contains graphite and you can polish it away this way!

"Snap" at 1:28 is the hardest part for me... so scary.

Thank you but I lost the share button

not as easy as it seems when trying to pop off my controller it broke man.

Thanks

The back isn’t coming off!!!

Thanks had some sticky buttons from kid playing. I've cleaned my ps4 controllers but this was like brain surgery

Just spray contact cleaner into the buttons jod done, no need to take apart.

Why do they make these things harder to break into than Fort nox

Ripped the cable for the microphone -.-

Will this work on buttons not working??

I tried cleaning with 99% rubbing alcohol as well as cleaning the D pad and it still gets stuck going left. I'm not even pushing the button and the d pad is going left. Maybe that's just severe left stick drift I'm not entirely sure.

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My x button has been sticky since the day I got my ps5

Still stick drift

I've stopped watching after 2mins that is not easy

Ok

Pin me bc I’m first to comment and I’m cool =]

there goes my ps5 controller broken now.

Thanks this helped a lot!

What type of screwdriver did you use?