Customer Ratings & Reviews

Bought mid Sep 21. Started out great for playing COD and Sky on my iPad. Good controller play and feel. Great battery life. In Apr 22 (only 6 1/2 months old), the controller began to drift left occasionally when it was supposed to be stopped, then it progressed to a constant left run command that would not stop. Now, it no longer recognizes any motion to the left. I downloaded the SteelSeries GG app which should contain the SteelSeries Engine that is too be used for managing SteelSeries products, however that app only recognizes that the Nimbus+ is connected and can report that it is firmware 1.0.1.0 but provides no capability to reset/calibrate the controller. After such glowing reviews and recommendation from Apple for this controller, I would have expected it to last longer that 7 months (at a rate of only about 60 minutes a day). I have since seen others report problems with this controller and the lack of ability calibrate or reset. I do not recommend this product.

Pair this with an iPad, and it makes for a neat little gaming system. My only issue is that the buttons sometimes get sticky. But this is my 2nd Nimbus controller and I would definitely get another in the future.

This is a wonderful controller, my only complaint is the pain I get from the heaviness of the controller when I have my phone mounted. I also feel like the mount should’ve been made a little different. It doesn’t feel secure. The pain I have is also the same with holding while laying down, since it is top heavy, I find myself gripping the controller tighter so it doesn’t dive on to my face and break my nose. My hands are used to PS5 controllers, so the Xbox style controller is not my favorite. Overall, how it syncs, charges, and clicks, one of my top five mobile controllers. Also, if Macbooks get COD Warzone, this would be a dope controller to have!

Pleased with this controller. Very easy to pair with my phone. It makes playing mobile games a lot simpler.

Makes Apple Arcade easier to play on Apple TV, MacBook Air and iPhone.

So far, so good with this controller. It is super responsive and pairs quickly with your Apple TV (or, I presume, any Apple product). Previous reviews have mentioned that it charges slowly, which it does. An odd design choice: the LEDs only indicate on/off status, not battery charge level, which is weird since there are three LEDs. So you have monitor the power level of your controller through Bluetooth device settings, which is less than ideal.

Good value, easy to use. Arrived quickly and on time.

This controller is impressive when it comes to playing mobile games. I have used it across my iPhone, iPad, and MacBook Pro.

Just what I needed for the Apple TV. It works the best without all the controllers.

Not my best purchase. Must be certain it works with games you want. Otherwise you’re throwing away money. Works decent for some games. Not compatible for most the ones I wanted to use it for.

Purchased to use with cloud gaming on my MacBook Air. Worked fine the first couple nights and now it will not stay connected over bluetooth. I have troubleshooted all of the suggestions online--- downloading a steel series app to check for updates, turning on certain specs in the settings, turning wifi-on and off again, etc. etc. and it still disconnects after 10-15 seconds and then reestablishes connection (yay) except not since I'm either playing online with other people and it disrupts the game or I get kicked to a pause menu. There seems to be no fix and upon doing more research to try and look for a work-around I found that A TON OF PEOPLE HAVE THIS SAME ISSUE AND THERE IS NO SOLUTION-- ONLY THAT I AM OUT MY $65+ I spent for this piece of junk. Save your money, buy a different controlled and do your research before purchasing because I wouldn't have bought this with what I know now.

Good controller to use for iOS games. My daughter uses this to play Roblox on her iPad.

Blue tooth constantly disconnects and is very annoying tried customer support but nothing yet.

It is a great product, it complements the Apple TV very well, I am happy, it is a product that was difficult to find, but at Best buy it was possible for me

Works fine w/ AppleTV. Continually disconnects when using on my M3 Mac. Their website doesn't even mention M3 - claims they are diligently working on M1 and M2 support ... Works fine when connected, but is basically unusable when it disconnects every 30 seconds. If you power cycle it enough times you may eventually get a good connection and be able to play. Frustrating to say the least. Claim to be working on a firmware update for macOS Sonoma to address the disconnecting issue ... no recent progress reported. Oh yeah - in order to even check for a firmware update, you have to download their "GG" app, grant it keyboard input monitoring access, and connect it via USB. And then apparently it is supposed tell you if there is an update. But it won't actually confirm you are up to date. So you have to guess if you trust that it's properly connected and checking for updates. Overall I wish I had bought a PS controller for basically the same price.

Great battery life, no connectivity issues, phone clamp is grippy even when laying down case or not. Only negative would be the buttons are very clicky so could be a deal breaker.

This controlller works nice to remote play on your phone, playstation games, For the price I would definetly recommend it

It’s alway disconnecting from the iPad i need to sync it once a day

My grandson loves this… we almost made it out of the store and he saw this little beauty! He wanted it for his birthday! So Nana got it for him! It works great!

Works ok. Settings won’t let me reverse the A and B buttons.