Steam Deck Beta Client Update Improves Achievement Notifications and Adds New Controller Support

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A new Steam Deck Beta Client update was released with some nice improvements and new controller support. The display of in-progress achievements has been improved and Game Notes are now available for the web. There is also new support for the 8BitDo Micro gamepad, and Valve has re-enabled auto gyro polling rate detection for wired connections.

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 4/4 Update Changelog:

General

• Improved display of notifications for in-progress achievements
• Replaced the "Switch to previous game" option in the "Launch Multiple Games" dialog with "Close previous game"

Game Notes

• Notes are now available on the web! You can find them on the games list. Select the "Games" option under your profile name, then find the new "My Notes" option on the "My Game Content" menu. They will be added to the Steam Mobile app in a future update.
• Fixed creating and saving notes from the game details section

Steam Input

• Added support for the 8BitDo Micro gamepad
• Fixed ability to delete an action added to a button after it was used to activate a mode shift
• Fixed deleting a Virtual Menu if it was generated within the Virtual Menu sub page, as opposed to being created from a "Source" dropdown menu.
• Re-enabled auto gyro polling rate detection for wired connections but not wireless ones

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