PUBG Mobile Gyroscope Guide: Modes, Setup and Practice

The PUBG Mobile gyroscope lets you aim by moving the phone itself. You tilt the phone a little and the crosshair follows, while your thumbs stay free to move and shoot. You turn it on in the Basic settings, under Gyroscope, and it has three modes: Off, Scope On and Always On. Scope On is the easiest start, because it works only while you are scoped in.

How to use the gyroscope in PUBG Mobile

1. Open Settings in the game.
2. Go to the Basic tab.
3. Find the Gyroscope option and choose a mode.

The three modes:

• Off: no gyroscope. Your thumbs do all the aiming.
• Scope On: the gyroscope works only while you aim down sights or through a scope. The rest of the time you play as you always have.
• Always On: the gyroscope works all the time, even when you look around without a scope.

Then open the Sensitivity tab. Two groups of sliders belong to the gyroscope, each with one slider per scope. Gyroscope Sensitivity sets how fast your aim moves when you tilt without firing, and ADS Gyroscope Sensitivity sets it while you fire.

Our guide to PUBG Mobile sensitivity settings has starting values for every scope. To begin with, one rule is enough. If you must tilt the phone a long way to pull the recoil down, raise the value. If your aim shakes with every small movement, lower it.

How tilting controls recoil

The gyroscope is a sensor inside the phone that measures how the phone turns and tilts. The game reads it and moves your aim by as much as your hands move the phone.

Take a long spray through a 4x scope. With thumbs only, you drag down the screen for the whole spray, and the same thumb must also follow the target. With the gyroscope, you tilt the phone down slightly as the gun climbs, and the thumb only follows the target. The work is shared between two hands.

It helps with small corrections too, such as moving from the chest to the head or staying on an enemy who is running far away. It does not hold the gun steady for you, and it does not remove recoil. It is another way to control your aim, and it needs practice like any other.

Gyro vs non-gyro in PUBG: which is better?

Neither wins by itself. Both styles reach the high ranks, and each has a price.

Gyro gives better recoil control with medium and long scopes, and finer aim, because your thumbs are free for moving, jumping and firing. The price is the learning time: for a few weeks you play worse before you play better. It also depends on how you sit. Lying on your side or riding in a car spoils your aim, and a heavy device tires the wrists.

Playing without the gyroscope is simpler and works in any position. If you are happy with your thumb aim, nothing forces you to change. If a 4x spray always escapes you, the gyroscope is worth two weeks of your time.

A two-week plan to learn the gyroscope

Your aim will be worse at first. That is normal, and it is the reason to stay out of ranked matches while you learn.

Start with your grip. Hold the phone with both hands and rest your elbows on a table or against your body. The movement comes from the wrists and it is small. Use your thumb for big turns and the gyroscope for fine aim and recoil.

• Days 1 to 3: the wall. In the Training Ground, take an M416 with a red dot and empty the magazine at one point on a wall. Pull the recoil down with the tilt alone and keep your thumb still. Fifteen minutes a day is enough.
• Days 4 to 7: targets and scopes. Follow the moving targets by tilting and fire short bursts. Switch between two targets and stop on each before you fire. Then repeat the wall drill with a 3x and a 4x.
• Week 2: real fights. Play Team Deathmatch, where the fights come one after another and there is no rank to lose. Go back to ranked matches when the tilt feels automatic.

Do not go back to your thumbs after the first bad evening. The strange feeling usually needs a week or two of daily play to pass.

Gyroscope not working, delayed or shaky

• It does nothing. Check that the option is not on Off, and that the gyroscope sliders in Sensitivity are not at their lowest. If both are right, your phone may have no gyroscope sensor. Some budget phones come without one, so look at the phone's specifications.
• The aim shakes. The sensitivity is higher than your hands can control. Lower it a little and rest your elbows.
• The movement is late or jumpy. Some phones have slower sensors than others. Restart the game and close background apps. If the delay stays, it comes from the phone, not from the settings.

Frequent questions

Should the gyroscope be on or off in PUBG Mobile?

Try Scope On for two weeks before you decide. It leaves your normal movement as it is and adds the gyroscope only while you aim through a scope. If it still feels wrong after that, turn it off.

Is there a gyroscope app or file for phones that do not support it?

No. The gyroscope is a part inside the phone, and an app cannot add it. Apps and files that promise this either do nothing or change the game's files, and that puts your account at risk of a ban.

Can I use another player's gyroscope sensitivity code?

As a place to start, yes. A code set on a different phone rarely fits as it is, so adjust it in the Training Ground until the spray holds for you.

UC for after practice

Learning the gyroscope costs nothing but time. The Royale Pass, and skins for the guns you have just learned to control, are what need UC. PUBG Mobile UC on Mas4Games is available as Top-up by ID for global accounts or as global UC codes, and for a top-up by ID the store asks only for your player ID.