Valve pushed out a new Steam Deck Client Beta update yesterday which changes some behavior for the quick access menu, as well as some lock screen fixes:

General:

  • The Quick Access Menu will now open to the notifications tab when you have new friend chat messages, game invites, or voice chat invites
  • Notifications for Game Invites in the Quick Access Menu now have an option in the footer to accept them without having to navigate to the chat window
  • Fixed an issue where Steam group chats with long names or descriptions could cause break the layout of the chat screen
  • Increase boot animation max length from 10 seconds to 30 seconds
  • Added controller-specific glyphs on the Lock screen
  • Fixed an issue on the Lock screen where you'd have to dismiss the On-Screen Keyboard manually if you slept the device while it was up
  • Fixed invoking the On-Screen-Keyboard while already in a fullscreen keyboard input scenario causing bad behavior.

Steam Input:

  • Fixed an issue with editing command settings from inside the virtual menu screen

You can view the changelog and discussion over on Steam.

It is also worth noting that the boot animation length has been increased from 10 seconds to 30 seconds. I think this is a cool idea, but I don't think I want to wait for 30 seconds for my Deck to boot up every time I switch back from Desktop mode or boot it up. Though it does seem like this could be gearing up for their Steam Point Store release!

Noah Kupetsky
A lover of gaming since 4, Noah has grown up with a love and passion for the industry. From there, he started to travel a lot and develop a joy for handheld and PC gaming. When the Steam Deck released, it just all clicked.
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