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These options will also change how your controller and layout behaves, and any changes to these settings will apply globally to any games you play.

Gyroscope
Toggling this will turn on/off the gyro. Note that in addition to this gyroscope option, the config in Controller Configuration also has a binding for gyro. If nothing is bound to it, such as Mouse used to control the mouse cursor, then attempting to use the gyro will have no effect, even when it is enabled in the app.

Rumble
Pressing this will turn on/off controller vibration.

Touch Controls Visibility
This option determines the visibility of the touch controls:

Copy/Paste and Reset Layout
In Layout Controls, access Copy, Paste, and Reset Layout via the ellipsis at the top-left corner.

• Press Copy Layout in one layout and Paste Layout in another layout that belongs to a different Action Layer or Action Set (discussed in Controller Configuration Basics) when you want to reuse the same layout. This is particularly helpful if you wish to keep consistent layouts of your controls.
• Press Reset Layout when you no longer want your current layout but want some controls in standard positions. The layout will be replaced by the same one you see in Big Picture Mode.

Magnifying Glass
After placing this control on the screen, pressing it will apply a magnifying glass effect on a rectangular region of the screen and pressing it again will turn it off. The magnified region can be moved by dragging it around with you finger. Additionally, a pinch-to-zoom gesture can be applied to it to zoom the image in and out (the pinch-to-zoom option for Mouse mode does not need to be enabled for this effect to take place).

Note: The magnifying glass will follow the cursor, including when moving the cursor using any of the mouse modes.

Inspection Tool
Drag the inspection tool over the controls in Layout Controls to see their bindings or assigned names.

Statically and dynamically placed Joysticks
Unlike other controls, the joysticks can be placed in two ways: statically placed and dynamically placed.

Statically placed is the same you do to any control that you want to use. After enabling them through Controller Configuration, place them on the screen from Layout Controls.

Dynamically placed does not require you to place the joysticks onto the screen in order to use them, but Mouse mode must be disabled in the app. After enabling the joysticks through Controller Configuration, return to the game. The left and right joysticks will appear beneath your fingers anytime you touch the left half and right half of the screen, respectively.

Difference between D-pad and Joystick
Besides how they appear on the screen, they behave a bit differently.

For D-pad, if you place your thumb on it, such as pressing Up, and then move your thumb away, the D-pad will stop receiving your command.

For joystick, if you place your thumb on it and press up, you can keep moving your thumb away from the area of the joystick and it will still receive your command.

Visual Feedback
The following includes topics on Controller Configuration that are described in more detail later in the Controller Configuration sections.

Toggle in an activator
When a control that has Toggle enabled in the activator is pressed, it will appear on the screen as being held down, or opaque. Pressing it again will turn off the control.

Long Press and Double Press activators
For controls with bindings that use the Long Press and/or Double Press activators, they will appear on the screen with additional indicators next to them.

A control that has a Long Press activator will have a line next to it.

• If this control also has a Regular Press activator, tapping it will cause the Regular Press activator to be triggered.
• When the control is held down, the line will fill up over time. After a certain amount of time, the duration of which is set through Controller Configuration, the bar will be filled and the Long Press activator will be triggered.
• If the control is released before the line is filled, the line will immediately reset to being empty.

A control that has a Double Press activator will have two dots next to it.

• When the control is pressed once, the first dot will become larger.
• If the control is pressed again within a certain amount of time, the duration of which is set through Controller Configuration, the second dot will also become larger and the Double Press activator will be triggered.
• If the control is not pressed again within a certain amount of time, the dots will reset to their original size. And if the control also has Regular Press activator, this will be triggered.

Note that for a control that has a Long Press and a Double Press activator, only the double dots indicator will be shown but holding down the button will cause a growing line to appear.

Layouts that you create in the app are unique to each game. When you save a config in Controller Configuration, the layouts of your controls, and mouse mode are recorded along with it. Saving a config will be covered in the next section.