Steam Deck Client Update Moves Settings Around, Fixes Pasting, and More

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A new Steam Deck Client was released that brought in some new fixes and changes from the beta branch. Some settings have been moved to the Power tab in the menu, steamwebhelper has reduced memory usage, pasting from the virtual keyboard works again, and now all games that were failing to connect to Steam should work again.

You can download and install the new update through the System settings on your Steam Deck.

Steam Deck Client 5/20/25 Update Changelog:

General

• Moved display dim and suspend timeout settings to Settings->Power.
• Moved 'Show Battery Percentage' setting to Settings->Power.
• Clicking on the battery header icon now navigates to Settings->Power.
• Proton Voice Files speech synthesis data will now be automatically installed based on Steam Deck compatibility testing results.
• Reduced steamwebhelper memory usage when launching games.
• Fixed pasting from on-screen keyboard.
• Fixed controller not working intermittently after Steam restart.

• Fixed games failing to connect to the Steam process when the Steam process id contains certain values.
• Fixed battery percentage not showing in the header when the battery is full.
• Fixed SteamOS compatible devices showing Steam Deck Verified installation warnings instead of the SteamOS Compatible version.
• Fixed transitions snapping backwards in the Welcome Wizard.

Steam Input

• Speculative Fix for rare DualSense Edge gyroscope related bug.

Desktop Mode

• Reduced steamwebhelper memory usage when switching to/from Big Picture Mode.
• Fixed rare steamwebhelper crash when switching to/from Big Picture Mode.

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