CloudGear v2.0 is the biggest update since launch, and it's out now on the App Store. It's the release that takes CloudGear off the phone: there's now a CloudGear app for Apple TV.

Thanks to everyone who ran the public beta since June. All the feedback we received was instrumental in getting v2.0 to where it is today.

CloudGear for Apple TV

Browse and launch games on your iPhone or iPad exactly as you do today, then play them on your Apple TV in up to 4K with HDR10 and 7.1 surround sound. It's the first app to bring GeForce NOW, Xbox Cloud Gaming, Amazon Luna and Boosteroid to Apple TV together.

It's included with your CloudGear unlock. One subscription or lifetime purchase covers your iPhone, iPad and Apple TV, so there's nothing extra to buy.

Setup takes about a minute: install CloudGear on your Apple TV, enter the six-digit code it shows into CloudGear on your iPhone or iPad, and the two stay paired from then on. It's a companion app rather than a standalone one: your iPhone or iPad does the browsing, the signing in and the launching, and your Apple TV plays the game.

There are two ways to play:

• Hand-Off is the default. The game moves onto your Apple TV and runs there natively, for the lowest possible latency. Once it's handed off you can lock your iPhone or put it down entirely, and play with a game controller, the Siri Remote touchpad, or a Steam Controller.
• Tethered keeps your iPhone or iPad connected and relays input, so a keyboard and mouse plugged into it drive the game on the TV. tvOS can't connect to a mouse at all, so this is the only way to play with one on the big screen. It's the mode for strategy games and MMORPGs.

One thing worth knowing before you set it up: controllers pair to the Apple TV itself, not to your phone.

Full Steam Controller support

Valve's new Steam Controller is now a first-class input device on iPhone, iPad and Apple TV (and we believe this makes CloudGear the first third-party app on any platform to introduce full support for it). The original 2015 Steam Controller is supported too.

Pair it once in your device's Bluetooth settings and CloudGear picks it up automatically from then on, across every service. It works as a gamepad with the right trackpad as a precise mouse, with full rumble and trackpad haptics.

The part worth trying is Keyboard & Mouse mode. Every button, stick and trackpad can be remapped to any key or mouse action, which makes keyboard-and-mouse-only games playable with just a controller: map the left stick to WASD, aim with the trackpad, and so on. Press the QAM button to switch modes mid-game.

Virtual Mouse

No mouse and no controller? Virtual Mouse drives a mouse pointer using touch gestures alone: click, drag, right-click and scroll. It's available on GeForce NOW and Boosteroid, and can also be driven from a DualSense or DualShock touchpad.

Plus:

• New performance overlay showing bitrate, frame rate, ping, jitter and packet loss over the stream, toggled from the in-game menu.
• New Anti-deadzone setting. Games usually ignore a small area around the centre of each thumbstick, which leaves the stick slow to respond; this cancels that out so aiming stays responsive.
• New Xbox button shortcut that virtually presses the Guide/Xbox/PS button that iOS and tvOS block on a physical controller.
• Faster, lower-latency video rendering, with colour accuracy fixes for HDR and 10-bit streams.
• New app-wide volume slider (Settings > Audio) that sets the stream's volume independently of the system volume.
• New icon size slider for the bookmark grid, and a new "Disable top-edge swipe" setting for the menu bar.
• Fixed 5.1 and 7.1 surround always being downmixed to stereo instead of driving multichannel hardware such as an HDMI receiver.
• Fixed the mouse pointer sometimes failing to lock after switching apps.
• Fixed the microphone indicator staying lit after a session had ended.
• GFN: New Auto resolution picks the best option GeForce NOW offers for the screen you're actually playing on, whether that's your device's screen, an external display, or a paired Apple TV.
• Boosteroid: Fixed left and right modifier keys (Shift, Ctrl, Alt) being sent as the wrong side.
• Renamed "Connection Stats" to "Stream Details".
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and other improvements.

Grab it on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/cloudgear-stream-play/id6751054342

CloudGear v1.6 lands hot on the heels of the v1.5 update — a rapid follow-up driven by player feedback, focused on reliability and quality-of-life polish.

The headline change: a complete rewrite of game controller input handling, fixing the stuck and dropped-input issues a handful of users had been seeing during fast button mashing or rapid trigger flicks.

Plus:

• Smarter cellular handling — CloudGear now sticks to Wi-Fi or Ethernet when one is available, only falling back to mobile data if no other connection exists.
• Home button on the navigation bar — return to your bookmark grid from any page with a single tap.
• Improved frame pacing performance for smoother gameplay
• Fixed an issue causing the device frame rate to be reported incorrectly in the connection stats
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and other improvements

CloudGear v1.5 is our biggest update yet. Three headline features change how you play cloud games on iPhone and iPad:

• Quick Launch bookmarks — bookmark a specific game and launch it with one tap, bypassing the streaming service’s user interface entirely.
• Home Screen Widgets — add any bookmark to your iOS Home Screen. Tapping the widget launches the bookmark directly, without opening CloudGear first.
• Amazon Luna support — stream Luna at the maximum resolution and bitrate the service offers, even on iPhone, with full controller support.

Plus:

• Find and launch your bookmarks straight from Spotlight search
• Customise your bookmarks — edit the title, address and icon, or set any bookmark as your home page
• Bookmarks now sync across all your devices via iCloud
• Support for custom mouse cursors (used by Boosteroid and Amazon Luna)
• Navigate the home screen using a game controller or keyboard
• Added “Clear cookies and cache” to advanced settings
• GFN: All games are now playable in mobile mode, even without a keyboard and mouse
• GFN: Fixed performance overlay showing the wrong layout
• GFN: Custom mouse cursor now appears on external displays
• Boosteroid: Fixed mouse not working on external display when the main screen dims
• Miscellaneous bug fixes and other improvements

Grab it on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/cloudgear-stream-play/id6751054342