After a long time of users asking, Valve has actually added an official Battery Charge Limit setting in the latest Steam Deck Beta update so you no longer need to use third-party tools.
This is probably one of the most-requested features people have wanted to see. Very useful for keeping your battery healthy, especially if you're leaving it charged and docked all the time.
From the May 8th release notes:
General
- Added Battery Charge Limit control to Settings->Power
- This option allows you to set a maximum charge limit for your Steam Deck.
- Limiting the charge limit to 80% can be beneficial for long term battery health. This can be useful if your Steam Deck is constantly being charged (i.e. docked), or very rarely has its battery depleted.
- Moved display dim and suspend timeout settings to Settings->Power.
- Moved 'Show Battery Percentage' setting to Settings->Power.
- Fixed pasting from on-screen keyboard.
Steam Input
- Speculative Fix for rare DualSense Edge gyroscope related bug.
Source: Valve
Here's how it looks on my Steam Deck LCD:
What's your next most-wanted feature for the Steam Deck?
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Ardje a day ago
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My deck is docked 24/6.99 as it is my work desktop.
And sometimes I take it out.
And NMC doesn't like that.
LiFePo4 also doesn't like being held at "high" voltage.
My deck is docked 24/6.99 as it is my work desktop.
And sometimes I take it out.
And NMC doesn't like that.
LiFePo4 also doesn't like being held at "high" voltage.
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Stella a day ago
is this just OLED or LCD too?
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Liam Dawe a day ago
LCD too, article updated with a shot from my LCD Deck.
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Ehvis 24 hours ago
Very nice. I've been doing the 80% battery limit manually on my phone as well. After 7 years it still has about 97% capacity. For the most part I don't think skipping the top 20% will change anything for my Steam Deck.
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Stella 23 hours ago
Very nice!!!
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Pyrate 23 hours ago
Bye bye PowerTools plugin , that's another one down.
, that's another one down.
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Linas 20 hours ago
Does this also work when Steam Deck is suspended or powered off?
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CatKiller 19 hours ago
What's your next most-wanted feature for the Steam Deck?Having all the store functions working correctly. When you've got a device from Valve with "Steam" in its name in your hands, you shouldn't have to grab a different device to get a good experience for things like checking your wishlist or giving Valve money.
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R Daneel Olivaw 18 hours ago
I was just wondering about this last week. Very nice!!!
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elmapul 15 hours ago
What's your next most-wanted feature for the Steam Deck?
hall effect stick... and everything else.
hall effect stick... and everything else.
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WorMzy 11 hours ago
Neat! My Steam Deck is almost always plugged in to charge, so I'll be making good use of this.
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Cyba.Cowboy 7 hours ago
My laptop does this with 'Aurora', and I think it's a fantastic feature... Since my Steam Deck is usually docked, the lack of this functionality is one of my pet peeves.
Hopefully this is implemented in the 'stable' release channel soon.
If it's anything like 'Aurora' for ASUS laptops, it won't work when the Steam Deck is powered off, but will work when the Steam Deck is suspended.
Not too sure what that has to do with this particular article... But since I discovered Hall Effect controllers a few months ago, I'm sold.
Aside from the price, I'm yet to hear a negative thing about them, and I think it would be disappointing if any Steam Deck successors don't offer this.
When I am (financially) able to to, I will be replacing all of my controllers with Hall Effect controllers, where compatible (we have a lot of consoles, in addition to our Steam Decks and my laptop).
Hopefully this is implemented in the 'stable' release channel soon.
Does this also work when Steam Deck is suspended or powered off?
If it's anything like 'Aurora' for ASUS laptops, it won't work when the Steam Deck is powered off, but will work when the Steam Deck is suspended.
What's your next most-wanted feature for the Steam Deck?
hall effect stick
Not too sure what that has to do with this particular article... But since I discovered Hall Effect controllers a few months ago, I'm sold.
Aside from the price, I'm yet to hear a negative thing about them, and I think it would be disappointing if any Steam Deck successors don't offer this.
When I am (financially) able to to, I will be replacing all of my controllers with Hall Effect controllers, where compatible (we have a lot of consoles, in addition to our Steam Decks and my laptop).
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DryPapHmrBro 3 hours ago
Bazzite's had this for how long now?
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DryPapHmrBro 3 hours ago
Not too sure what that has to do with this particular article... But since I discovered Hall Effect controllers a few months ago, I'm sold.
Aside from the price, I'm yet to hear a negative thing about them, and I think it would be disappointing if any Steam Deck successors don't offer this.
The Legion Go uses 'em - they're so good
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