Install the Steam Link app from the App Store on Your iPad

Install the Steam Link app from the App Store to your iPadġ.

The below tutorial is for iPad, but it’s pretty much the same on any iOS device. Thanks to some background negotiations following an initial rejection by Apple, you can now use this app to stream games from a powerful gaming PC to iPhones, iPads and Apple TVs.

Just like Frostpunk.Android users had been enjoying Steam Remote play via the Steam Link app for about a year before iOS users finally got their turn. Until Apple decides to allow streaming gaming services to work as intended on iPad by providing the right frameworks and APIs, this story will not have a happy ending.

It is not worth it to even stream games to it from another source. It is still an iPad and performs only a subset of tasks that a full-fledged computer can do.īefore you say that I could do this on my Mac too so why don't I? By the time the game would have started, my MacBook Pro would have heated up enough to replace the generator in Frostpunk. Unfortunately, as much as Apple wants to ask us what is a computer, it still is not one yet. This is not a Steam Link issue but a lack of developer control provided by Apple to disable these operating system-level features during gaming. During a game like Frostpunk, it becomes extremely annoying as you have to keep moving your mouse to the edges of the screen to navigate around the map.

Move your mouse to the top right corner of the screen, and the control center will appear. Move your mouse to the top too much, and the notification shade comes down. iPad has a few gestures where if you move the mouse to the bottom of the screen, the dock pops-up.

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