(Note: You should see the battery percentage of the xbox controller in your menu bar. Paired the controller with the mac, and it should pop up as Xbox Wireless Controller and steam should instantly pop up with a message about using your controller in a window and have a popup notification in the corner. Steam loads wrong gamepad configs for games and they don't work steam doesn't detect controller, or does detect the controller but it doesn't work with games for some reason)

Controller connects to mac just fine and works with mac games, but not with steam itself and steam games (i.e. Bluetooth not working with mac/mac not detecting it The gamepad input controller driver update from steam not working on m1 macs Popular known issues that I didn't have to fix: And of course, I couldn't download the gamepad driver from steam but weirdly enough it didn't ask me to. I had Gamepad Config and all other settings on. Better than the 0% success rate I've been getting with other controllers. This works straight to the point with the games it works with, or not at all. Other controllers may work (if not with a lot of tinkering). You'll know because it only has two buttons under the xbox logo, and a micro usb port (NOT Usb-C) on it. It has to be the Wireless Xbox One Original Controller. I'll put a list of games that it works with and more info at the bottom of this post. I could've tinkered to see if I could fix it, but the fact that it worked with AAA games was big for me. It worked with a good amount of games in my library but not all. This controller is literally just plug and play and I had to do no settings tinkering. It's the Wireless* Xbox One ORIGINAL controller (original meaning it has a micro usb port).īefore you click away, please know I've literally researched almost every fix and bought almost every type of xbox controller to see what works.

I am so ecstatic to share this news! I finally found a solution to finding a controller that works with the m1 macs, but not just the mac but also steam! It's simple, I've only found one controller that works on mac.

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