Valve finally updates Steam's clunky old mobile app on iOS and Android - Eurogamer.net

New UI, QR sign-ins, notifications, and more.

Valve has yet revamped its decidedly decrepit Steam mobile app for iOS and Android, introducing a caller look, a caller interface, and a scope of caller features.

The archetypal mentation of Valve's Steam mobile app launched implicit a decennary ago, and it's felt exceedingly outdated for a precise agelong time. As of today, though, iOS and Android users tin download a wholly refreshed mentation via their device's respective app stores.

It's astir instantly evident alteration is simply a considerably much streamlined interface - which gives speedy entree to the store, personalised news, Steam Guard, and notifications, arsenic good arsenic unburying the likes of privation lists and different cardinal features - but there's plentifulness much besides.

For starters, the app present features a afloat room view, with per-title links to things similar idiosyncratic surface shots and reviews, arsenic good arsenic casual entree to guides, discussions, different assemblage features. Users tin besides negociate distant downloads of games and update to their PC (although seemingly not to Steam Deck astatine present).

Elsewhere, there's enactment for aggregate accounts, arsenic good arsenic notifications for the likes of person requests, comments, trades, and wishlist games going connected sale.

Perhaps astir handy, though, is the instauration of QR codes for Steam Guard. Now, if you privation to motion into Steam on, say, a PC, you nary longer request to input your idiosyncratic name, password, and verification codification to bash truthful - you simply request to scan a QR codification connected the log-in leafage with your mobile instrumentality and you'll automatically sign-in.

And if you ever request to remotely motion retired of Steam for immoderate crushed - possibly you forgot to log retired astatine a friend's location - there's a caller Authorised Devices leafage showing wherever you're presently signed in, and providing the enactment to revoke entree if required.

With the app update present live, Valve says much caller features are already successful the works. QR sign-in volition beryllium making its mode to Steam Deck, for instance, and there'll beryllium enactment for caller notification types, and a mentation of the Authorised Devices database for the Steam lawsuit and browsers.