MagicPods✨ for Steam Deck

April 27, 2026 · View on GitHub

A magic plugin for the Decky Loader that allows you to control your AirPods and Beats headphones in a comfortable way.

🎨 Features

🔋 Battery level
⚙️ Noise control
🎧 Switch Bluetooth codec
🔌 Fix headphones disconnects
🎉 New features coming soon

🔥 Exclusive to AirPods and Beats

Additional settings — just like on iPhone and Mac:

  • Audio is lowered during conversation awareness
  • Noise level adjustment in adaptive mode
  • Personalized volume
  • Noise cancellation with one AirPod
  • Press duration adjustment
  • Press and hold duration adjustment
  • Customization of single and double tap for call control

🎧 Headphones supported

AppleBeatsSamsung
AirPods 1PowerBeats ProGalaxy Buds
AirPods 2PowerBeats Pro 2Galaxy Buds Plus
AirPods 3PowerBeats 3Galaxy Buds Live
AirPods 4PowerBeats 4Galaxy Buds Pro
AirPods 4 (ANC)Beats Fit ProGalaxy Buds 2
AirPods ProBeats Studio BudsGalaxy Buds 2 Pro
AirPods Pro 2Beats Studio Buds PlusGalaxy Buds Fe
AirPods Pro 3Beats Studio ProGalaxy Buds 3
AirPods MaxBeats Solo 3Galaxy Buds 3 Pro
AirPods Max 2024Beats Solo Pro
AirPods Max 2Beats Studio 3
Beats X
Beats Flex
Beats Solo Buds
Powerbeats Fit

💾 Installation

Using the Decky Store

  1. Install Decky Loader
  2. Switch to steam game mode
  3. Press
  4. Go to the tab
  5. In the upper right corner, click
  6. Find MagicPods in the plugin list or search for it
  7. Press the Install button

Using the Decky developer mode

  1. Install Decky Loader
  2. Switch to steam game mode
  3. Press
  4. Go to the tab
  5. In the upper right corner, click
  6. On the General tab, enable developer mode
  7. Go to the Developer tab
  8. Type in the URL https://magicpods.app/plugin
  9. Press the Install button

🚀 Getting started

Now that you have MagicPods, press and go to and select MagicPods in the installed plugins list.

displays information about the current charge level and additional features, if supported by the headphones.
shows headphones supported by MagicPods, here you can connect/disconnect headphones and control Bluetooth.
Contains additional features, settings, and other useful information.

All you need to do is select your headphones and connect them, and the charge level and additional features will appear on the tab

🌐 Become a Translator

Go to the MagicPods-SteamDeck project. Register (don’t forget to check your Spam folder — the confirmation email might end up there), or suggest translations without creating an account.

Use the shortest phrases and abbreviations possible — the Steam interface is very compact. Refer to the screenshots attached to each phrase.

🧪 Ideas and bugs

In the Discord community you can suggest an idea or report a problem.

🩼 Known issues

  • Hotkeys stop working after opening the controller settings in the Steam menu — the solution is to restart the plugin.
  • When managing Bluetooth through the plugin, changes are not visible in the Steam interface — the current Bluetooth status is shown only in MagicPods.

Support the project here — every bit helps ❤️

💖 Developers

Developed by Aleksandr Maslov and Andrey Litvintsev