iOS 16 Supports Nintendo's Switch Pro and Joy-Con Controllers (theverge.com) 15
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Verge: Apple is adding native support for the Nintendo Switch Pro and Joy-Con controllers in iOS 16. Riley Testut, one of the iOS developers behind AltStore, discovered the new controller support in a developer beta of iOS 16 that was released yesterday. The Nintendo Switch Pro Controller works "perfectly" according to Testut, and both Joy-Con controllers show up as a single device for apps and games to take advantage of. Nat Brown, an engineering manager at Apple, has confirmed the new controller support and even revealed there's a neat method to switch how the Joy-Cons work in iOS 16. You can dynamically switch between using both Joy-Cons as a single controller or two separate ones by holding the screenshot and home buttons for a few seconds.
Just now? (Score:2)
They're bluetooth. Android has supported this for years. Is there something special about the Joycon that makes it not work with standard drivers? Is iOS just now getting support for bluetooth controllers?
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The issue is that the Joycons are independent devices, i.e. the phone sees two separate controllers for the left and right ones. Some games are okay with that, you can map buttons from different controllers, but some games only let you use one controller at a time.
On Windows there are apps that combine the two Joycons into a single virtual controller. I guess they implemented something similar in iOS.
If you don't need analogue sticks then the best controller is the Pokken one. It's USB and works on Android.
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I can't answer your first question but, for the second, iOS 13 (released September 2019) was the first to support bluetooth game controllers [bgr.com].
Slashdot Github Advertisement - how get rid of it? (Score:2)
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Sponsored posts too (JIRA just now, for example)...
This is obviously some strange use of the word 'disabled' that I wasn't previously aware of.
(with apologies, as always, to DNA for paraphrasing)
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I am using Ublock Origin and have multiple times selected the Github ad and selected to block it in Ublock. Nope, still comes back.
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Block javascript on *.slashdot.org
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Ok... (Score:2)
"iOS 16 Supports Nintendo's Switch Pro and Joy-Con Controllers".
(skater metal guitar riffs) YEAH!
Re: Ok... (Score:2)
Just a bit of mockery using 00s era pop culture.