After some time being in Beta, Valve has officially released the new shiny new Steam Mobile App for all.
This really is a big upgrade, and one we've all been waiting for. Valve let Steam Mobile die a slow death until this revamp, so let's hope they keep up with it this time. It has a new design, along with it being built on a whole new framework. Major new additions like QR code sign-in, making it easier than ever to jump into Steam on new devices.
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App Features:
- Two-factor authentication to ensure you’re the only one with access to your account
- QR code sign in - Scan a QR code to sign into Steam instead of entering a password or…
- Sign in confirmation - Confirm your regular Steam sign ins with simple “approve” or “deny”
- Authorized Devices - Manage access to the devices your account has signed in
- Easy access to the Store, Community, News, etc from wherever you are
- Your Library with access to your game content, discussions, guides, support, and more
- Remote download of games and updates on your PC, managed from your phone
- Customizable Steam notifications: wishlist, sales, comments, trades, discussions, friend requests, and more
- Trade and Market confirmations – to ensure items don’t leave your account without your approval
- An improved Store browsing experience for mobile screens
- Support for using multiple Steam accounts in the app
- Customizable tabs
Valve makes it clear that Steam Chat will remain a separate app, for some reason. It will also be getting some major upgrades today on Android and iOS "soon".
As for what's next. Valve are bringing the QR sign-in to Steam Deck, adding in new notification types and adding the Authorized Devices list to the Steam Client and browser.
The app is available in the Apple App Store, the Google Play Store, and as a standalone APK.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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When I want to login at another PC, the Steam App...
* signals a message (good)
* opens on some advertising opening screen (WTF, we wanted to login, remember?!?)
* when I switch to alerts, there's nothing about a login (ok, you don't remember)
* when I switch to guard, I get a camera pic (hey, I just wanted to acknowledge and not scan anything!)
* ... and after two seconds, it finally asks me if I want to login.
And don't get me started about the forum threads, the second thing I used to use the app for.
Last edited by Eike on 14 October 2022 at 9:08 am UTC
* signals a message (good)
* opens on some advertising opening screen (WTF, we wanted to login, remember?!?)
* when I switch to alerts, there's nothing about a login (ok, you don't remember)
* when I switch to guard, I get a camera pic (hey, I just wanted to acknowledge and not scan anything!)
* ... and after two seconds, it finally asks me if I want to login.
And don't get me started about the forum threads, the second thing I used to use the app for.
Last edited by Eike on 14 October 2022 at 9:08 am UTC
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Quoting: MarlockAFAIK there are even provider-agnostic methods for this sort of thing, but anything beyond smartphone as token is a rare beast to see actually implemented nowadays, let alone a real agnostic implementation.
Probably the most widely used one is FIDO2 ig?
But i agree that i would wish more adoption for that - cloudflare is currently giving away a coupon for yubikeys (i'm still waiting on mine though) to get them pretty cheap. In the past i was hesitant to pick one up for 50+ bucks (and you should have at least two to have a backup) with that low adoption, but for 10-20 bucks a pop it's a no-brainer imho.
But at least nowadays TOTP is widely used - i curse the days where many providers thought it was a good idea to implement their own F2A with their own bullshit app. Steam is still one of those, but at least on a rooted phone you can extract the secret and use it in another 2FA app...
Last edited by Termy on 14 October 2022 at 8:26 am UTC
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CyborgZeta Oct 14, 2022
I don't like this new app at all after using it some more.
I wanted to change the phone number on my account, but only had my phone with me, so I used the app. Things were fine up until I had to open a link in an email to verify the new number. Normally an easy process. Except it kept opening it in the app, and the app would instead present me a page asking me if I wanted to move the Authenticator.
I repeated this process multiple times until I gave up and tried in Firefox Android, but now I have to wait a week to add the number I wanted due to multiple failures.
So I deleted the number I had on my Steam account, turned off the Authenticator, and uninstalled this awful new app. Valve, I like you guys a lot, but if your app is going to make changing things in my account this frustrating, then it can stay off my phone.
I wanted to change the phone number on my account, but only had my phone with me, so I used the app. Things were fine up until I had to open a link in an email to verify the new number. Normally an easy process. Except it kept opening it in the app, and the app would instead present me a page asking me if I wanted to move the Authenticator.
I repeated this process multiple times until I gave up and tried in Firefox Android, but now I have to wait a week to add the number I wanted due to multiple failures.
So I deleted the number I had on my Steam account, turned off the Authenticator, and uninstalled this awful new app. Valve, I like you guys a lot, but if your app is going to make changing things in my account this frustrating, then it can stay off my phone.
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OK... deep breath... Android updated Steam Mobile for me yesterday.
tl;dr: I experienced almost all issues described on the new complaint topics on the Steam Mobile discussions forum on steam. Check them out before you update!
Not only is this new app slooooow... I freaking hated the new design, and it's beta state at best.
It is less coherent with Steam's desktop app and website appearance than the old design. The notifications are grey while most elements elsewhere are blue.
The notification page uses an unusually big font size so it fits very few notifications on a single page. This is less of a problem because they changed from a paged to a rolling list, but still makes them look alien with everything else. Click on a discussions notification and you'll be thrown to blue small-font tight-spaced webpages looking exactly like the old layout, navigate and you might be thrown back at the old notifications list or discussion posts list because breadcrumbs are broken.
Despite the big font, reading notifications is a chore, because of low contrast color choices and the only hint that each notification is of a different nature is a particularly midgrey-colored text, so it isn't easy at all to notice at a glance.
The news section, the in-app notifications section and the community discussions have poorly handled overlaps (defaulting to maximal overlapping, so you see the same fuzzy content mix everywhere. It's ok to offer a flow somewhere as a new option, but what if I DO want to go here for forum posts and there for Valve's official news? That possibility of a more ordered navigation is seemingly ruined or burried.
There is a bottom menu AND a hamburger rollg with sub-items AND a side menu AND a top side-swipe.
Speaking of swipes... more often than not swiping makes this thing bounce back and even go in the oposite direction from the intended. It's maddening!
Hangs and failures to load page is also way more frequent now (and it was pretty unreliable before).
On the Library, the filter "Installed on Computer X" just lists all my games.
Last edited by Marlock on 14 October 2022 at 12:33 pm UTC
tl;dr: I experienced almost all issues described on the new complaint topics on the Steam Mobile discussions forum on steam. Check them out before you update!
Not only is this new app slooooow... I freaking hated the new design, and it's beta state at best.
It is less coherent with Steam's desktop app and website appearance than the old design. The notifications are grey while most elements elsewhere are blue.
The notification page uses an unusually big font size so it fits very few notifications on a single page. This is less of a problem because they changed from a paged to a rolling list, but still makes them look alien with everything else. Click on a discussions notification and you'll be thrown to blue small-font tight-spaced webpages looking exactly like the old layout, navigate and you might be thrown back at the old notifications list or discussion posts list because breadcrumbs are broken.
Despite the big font, reading notifications is a chore, because of low contrast color choices and the only hint that each notification is of a different nature is a particularly midgrey-colored text, so it isn't easy at all to notice at a glance.
The news section, the in-app notifications section and the community discussions have poorly handled overlaps (defaulting to maximal overlapping, so you see the same fuzzy content mix everywhere. It's ok to offer a flow somewhere as a new option, but what if I DO want to go here for forum posts and there for Valve's official news? That possibility of a more ordered navigation is seemingly ruined or burried.
There is a bottom menu AND a hamburger rollg with sub-items AND a side menu AND a top side-swipe.
Speaking of swipes... more often than not swiping makes this thing bounce back and even go in the oposite direction from the intended. It's maddening!
Hangs and failures to load page is also way more frequent now (and it was pretty unreliable before).
On the Library, the filter "Installed on Computer X" just lists all my games.
Last edited by Marlock on 14 October 2022 at 12:33 pm UTC
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