Steam Deck Update Improves Battery Life, Adds Lock Screen Feature, And More
Many were excited when Valve began marketing its Steam Deck portable PC last summer. With more than half of Steam's games now compatible with the device, either fully verified or at least playable, it's proven to be a successful endeavor for the company. Of course, it's by no means perfect and there are inevitably going to be some issues that need ironing out. Therefore, the developer has been using feedback to make improvements to the system, and the latest update being rolled out seems to amend it even more for the greater good.
In a recent post on the Steam website, a new patch for the Steam Deck has just been launched, which brings a number of tweaks and changes. Among other things, one of the latest additions to it is the implementation of a lock screen feature. This will, as the name suggests, allow users to lock the Deck's screen. It is specific to the device, and has a number of options in its behavior, such as being able to set it to show on wake, or when switching to desktop mode, etc.
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One of the other interesting amendments is to the battery life. In the run-up to the device's launch, there was a lot of talk about what the Steam Deck battery life would be like. It seemed that it would last between two and eight hours, depending on what it was being used for. There have been a number of methods deployed for making it better, and this latest patch suggests that it's been improved even further. It should be worth noting that, according to Steam, it specifically adjusts the battery in terms of idle status and during «very low usage scenarios.»
On top of that, there are numerous other changes that have been made, including some related to quality of life, such as updating
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