Valve has utterly revamped the Steam Mobile App with a brand new framework, design, and options.

The redesign ought to present a extra streamlined consumer interface whereas bolstering safety by means of the addition of QR code scanning for PC sign-in.

Other new options embrace a brand new Library view with distant downloads, customizable tabs, and up to date notifications that may be tailor-made to focus on gross sales, feedback, trades, good friend requests, wishlists and extra.

Valve claims the brand new cellular app can be the “greatest technique to preserve your account safe with two-factor authentication (2fa)” now that QR codes have been baked into the expertise.

“The new cellular app contains QR code check in, a brand new check in methodology for Steam that permits you skip coming into your consumer title and password. The course of depends on the 2fa credentials saved in your telephone app, securely figuring out you thru your cellular machine to Steam, wrote the corporate.

“When you check in to Steam this fashion, the cellular app will present you a affirmation web page with particulars in regards to the check in try, together with a map and the approximate geolocation of the machine you’re signing in to. You can use these particulars to confirm that the tried check in is you after which approve or deny the try, all from the Steam Mobile app. This is the fantastic thing about 2fa – in case your password is uncovered, you’ll be able to nonetheless decline makes an attempt to entry your account.”

Anybody who would not wish to use their digital camera will nonetheless be capable of use their account title and password to check in, and also will be allowed to make use of the cellular app to substantiate their sign-in with out manually coming into a Steam Guard code.

What’s extra, Steam Mobile App customers can even be capable of use the Authorised Devices web page to evaluate the place their account is at the moment signed in, how lately the machine was seen utilizing their account, and revoke entry if obligatory.

Valve has supplied a full rundown of the revamped Steam Mobile App’s function set over on the Steam Community weblog. The firm revealed its additionally working to replace the Steam Chat app with numerous bug fixes to assist Steam customers extra successfully keep in contact with their mates once they’re away from their PC.