New Steam Deck Beta Client Update Adds Dual Gyro Support For Switch Joycons

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A new Steam Deck Beta Client update was released that has a couple of fixes and support for a new feature. We now have suupport for Dual Gyros when using Switch Joycons in combined mode, and some fixes for specific characters in news posts, some friend and chat settings, and cases where adding a lot of non-Steam games to a collection would fail.

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 9/17/25 Update Changelog:

General

• Fixed "\\" characters appearing in some news posts
• Fixed some cases where access to "Mark as private" game setting was unavailable.
• Fixed some cases where adding a large number of non-Steam games to a collection would fail.
• Fixed some "Friends & Chat" settings occasionally resetting to their default value temporarily after getting disconnected from Steam

Steam Input

• Added support for dual gyros when using Nintendo Switch Joycons in combined mode

Streaming

• Fix cases where clicking "stream" did nothing.

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