You should also see a pulsating orange light when the console is preparing to enter Rest Mode. These are the three most common reasons behind the PS5 controller's light bar blinking orange.

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However, if it's a pulsing light, that means your PS5 is either charging or entering Rest Mode. Finally, if the LED bar below your PS button is orange, it means the controller is muted.

As such, if these gray thumbsticks ever needed to be swapped out, there wouldn’t be another gray thumbstick option to keep the look of the 30th Anniversary PS5 controller intact.