Steam Deck Beta Client Update Adds Battery Charge Limit Setting

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A new Steam Deck Beta Client update was released, and it comes with a surprising, but very welcome change. There's a new setting to change the Battery Charge Limit on the Steam Deck, setting a maximum limit for when your device is plugged in. It's beneficial to do this if you are constantly charging your Steam Deck or have it mostly docked to keep your battery healthy. Valve also moved some settings around to the Power tab, and pasting from the virtual keyboard has been fixed.

You can download the update yourself in the System Settings on the Steam Deck. Make sure your update channel is set to Beta or Preview.

Steam Deck Beta Client 5/8/25 Update Changelog:

General

• Added Battery Charge Limit control to Settings->Power
  • This option allows you to set a maximum charge limit for your Steam Deck.
  • Limiting the charge limit to 80% can be beneficial for long term battery health. This can be useful if your Steam Deck is constantly being charged (i.e. docked), or very rarely has its battery depleted.

• Moved display dim and suspend timeout settings to Settings->Power.
• Moved 'Show Battery Percentage' setting to Settings->Power.
• Fixed pasting from on-screen keyboard.

Steam Input

• Speculative Fix for rare DualSense Edge gyroscope related bug.

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