New Steam Mobile Chat App

The Steam Blog announces the launch of a new Steam Chat mobile app:
The new Steam Chat mobile app is a modernized Steam chat experience available for free on iOS and Android platforms.

The app includes many key features of the Steam Client desktop chat, including:

  • Friends List - See who’s in game or online at a glance. Never miss an opportunity to play.
  • Rich Chat - Your chats get even better with higher fidelity links, videos, tweets, GIFs, Giphy, Steam emoticons, and more.
  • Invite Links - Add new friends on Steam with a link. Generate an invite link you can text or email.
  • Customizable Notifications - Mobile notifications mean you'll never miss a message or game invite. You can customize your notifications per friend, group chat, and chat channel.
  • Group Chats - Get everyone on the same page. Groups make it easier to do things like stay in touch with your communities and organize game night with your best friends.

Try it out now
iOS: get the app on the Apple App Store
Android: get the app on Google Play [play.google.com]

We're always interested to hear what you think of our products. If you have suggestions or opinions on the app we want to hear from you.

What's next?
We’re already working on improvements to the Steam Chat app, including voice chat. With Steam Chat moving to its own dedicated app, the original Steam Mobile app will see significant upgrades focused on account security. Our plans include better Steam Guard options to help securely log into your Steam account, such as QR codes and one-touch login, and improved app navigation.

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Re: New Steam Mobile Chat App
May 22, 2019, 14:34
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Re: New Steam Mobile Chat App May 22, 2019, 14:34
May 22, 2019, 14:34
 
Wow, this is sad. It adds nothing new, you could already chat and buy games when the their existing mobile app. You will have to keep the other app too because this one requires Steam Guard to login. They just made it take up more space on your device. To be like Facebook and to support “gifs” I guess? Oh and if you have a high res tablet, this appears as a tiny window because I guess Valve couldn’t afford a tablet to test on,

I realize this is optional (I already removed it) and that they say they will include more in the future, but this should have been a beta at most. I kind of expect more from Valve. Now if you will excuse me I have to go yell about how things were better ‘in my day’ to clouds...
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Re: New Steam Mobile Chat App
May 22, 2019, 09:36
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Re: New Steam Mobile Chat App May 22, 2019, 09:36
May 22, 2019, 09:36
 
It does seem like too little too late now that social media and discord is so entrenched. I wish they'd spend their effort to improve the download manager, cloud save manager and mod manager, I mean those are maintaining everyone's games all the time!

The mod manager is especially bad, I hate those unexplained 'workshop updates' that leave you guessing what mod updated, and whether it's safe to continue your saved game. You have to open the steam library, click game, open its workshop, browse to my subscribed items, and finally click order by most recently updated. And each click needs a moment to load!
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Re: New Steam Mobile Chat App
May 22, 2019, 08:50
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May 22, 2019, 08:50
 
Exactly was I was looking/hoping for!


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