Grand Theft Auto: V

GTA ONLINE WORKING GLITCH GUIDE

Category: Miscellaneous

Platforms and players: PS4 - Solo

Method: Solo

Game generation: Legacy and current consoles

TUTORIAL

Ok, oh boy did I get excited! 3 glitches in 1 I'll start this off with saying it's pretty easy to do but there are a couple requirements. You can unlock Michael this way to. It's just more entertaining with Trevor seeing how it takes a long time to unlock him and you get Michael pretty quickly.

First: You have to have played through the game normally or however shenaniganly as you would like until you unlock Trevor.

Second: You'll need to have completed the "Fresh Meat" mission. (Sometime after unlocking Trevor)

That's it. Now the long fun begins (typing what I'm about to type on my phone is going to be a blast)

Starting on the save file with Trevor unlocked and the Fresh Meat mission completed, load in as any character.

• Load up Director Mode and save Trevor and Michael to the shortlist. *Quit director mode and go back to story. *Save your game(this saves the shortlist characters so you don't have to add them everytime you load the save.) *Load the save you just made.

Once loaded in

• Open start menu and load Mission Replay "Fresh Meat" *Play through the mission normally or mission fail 3 times at each checkpoint to 'Skip' that current section. After "Mission Passed" screen has come and gone, Michael will be in his bathroom. You have roughly 30 seconds to go to his bed and save the game

Select a file to overwrite or save to a new file if available.

Load that save file you just created

• When you load in, you will be Michael, and after a few seconds the screen should show you the GTAV logo. *After the logo disappears(there will be blank screen now) HOLD DOWN on the D-Pad and with the "Right" analog stick hold down to switch to online character. *Release D-Pad. DENY THE ALERT SCREEN

You will now be Franklin... WAIT!

• Franklin will get a phone call from Simeon *DON'T answer *DON'T deny *leave it *When it goes away, load into director mode.

When in the casting trailer just load directly into director mode.

• When you load in (you should still be Franklin.) Kill yourself with a rocket or grenade.

This will take you back to the casting trailer

Exit to story mode using the option near the bottom of the list

You spawn in as Franklin again... WAIT!

• Franklin will get that same call from Simeon. ANSWER IT *After Franklin speaks(asking how it's going) pause the game *Go to the "Rockstar Editor" tab *Click on Director mode *Accept alert

When in the Casting Trailer scroll to shortlist actors and select TREVOR.

You will now be in Director/story mode. Holding the select button will open up 2 menus at once(Be careful)

When loaded into director mode wait about 10 seconds then kill yourself with rockets or grenades. *This will again bring you back to the casting trailer. Exit to gtav story mode

Trevor.

• Save game at his safehouse then reload gamesave

Some things may crash your game.

There are a lot of in-between glitches I tried as well. Including being a chicken hawk who can use an invisible cell phone (empdrop phone number works with the birb)

While in Director/story mode I was able to go to the strip club as Trevor and win a phone number. That ends up breaking the story mode part of the glitch and leaves you only on director mode.

You can use the cheats in the director menu, but it tells you saving will be cancelled. Meaning before you turn on any of the cheats, you can quick save with the phone or use a bed.

Have fun. (Writing this... I didn't.)

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SOURCE AND STATUS

This guide was cataloged from the GTA Glitches working list on July 28, 2026. Rockstar updates can change or patch methods, so check the community status before attempting it.

Source guide: https://www.reddit.com/r/gtaglitches/comments/uf4s3m/unlock_trevor_at_the_beginning_of_the_game_glitch/

Working list: https://gtaglitches.com/working-glitches