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# Game Controller Sessions

Analyze how often and how long people are in game-controller sessions in your app.

## Overview

The data in this report details the number and total duration of game-controller sessions.

- Territories: Worldwide
- Platforms: iOS, iPadOS.  For more information about iOS and iPadOS, see the Platforms section in [Data Completeness and Corrections](/documentation/Analytics-Reports/data-completeness-corrections).
- Availability:
  - Daily: Every day.
- History: On request, data is available beginning with iOS 17.4 and iPadOS 17.4.
- Completeness: Data from devices that contribute to this report can arrive as late as 8 days after the date it generates on device. You can download recent data daily, but it might be incomplete, and data updates incrementally daily, until all late-arriving events are available.
- Privacy:
  - Includes data from users who have opted to share their data with Apple and developers.
  - Individual rows will only appear if they have a value of 5 or more.
- Data Context: You can analyze your data with additional context by comparing it with the data in the [App Sessions Context](/documentation/Analytics-Reports/app-sessions-context) report, which provides a count of unique devices that use your app on a specific day. For example, if your app performed an action detailed in this report on 10 unique devices on a specific day, and the App Sessions Context report shows there were 100 unique devices running your app that day, then you can approximate that 10% of the devices running your app performed that action.

## Report Fields

|Report Field               |Description                                                             |Data Type|
|---------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------|---------|
|Count                      |Number of times the event occurred                                      |`integer`|
|Territory                  |Country or region in which the event occurred                           |`string` |
|Date                       |Date when the event occurred                                            |`string` |
|Platform                   |OS version on the device on which the event occurred                    |`string` |
|Device                     |Type of device on which the event occurred                              |`string` |
|Build                      |Build of device on which event occurred                                 |`string` |
|Unique Devices             |The count of unique devices                                             |`integer`|
|Release Type               |Type of software release                                                |`string` |
|Controller Product Category|The type of controller that the app uses, for example, MFi, Xbox, or DS4|`string` |
|Total Duration of Sessions |The total duration, in seconds, of the game-controller sessions         |`integer`|

## Glossary

|Dimension                  |Value                   |Definition                                     |
|---------------------------|------------------------|-----------------------------------------------|
|Controller Product Category|Xbox Wireless Controller|The product name of the type of controller used|

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