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Among Us on a Mac with a controller

The Among Us layout is built into InputConfig, free on the Mac App Store. You don't have to make an account, there are no subscriptions, and nothing is locked. Optimized for Apple silicon.

On a Mac: On an Apple silicon Mac, the iPad version installs from the Mac App Store. It was made for touch: some players find a keyboard option under the game's Settings, Controls, and others find none. Where the game takes keys, this layout works as it is. Where it does not, point each button at the game's on-screen button instead, as described below. The Windows version needs CrossOver or a Windows virtual machine, and AppleGamingWiki reports login and graphics trouble under CrossOver.

Yes, you can play Among Us on a Mac with a controller, and there are two setups depending on your copy. On an Apple silicon Mac it is the iPad version from the Mac App Store, made for touch: if your copy takes keys, the layout below works as it is. If it does not, each button can click the game's own on-screen button instead.

It is a top-down game with five buttons, played at parties by people who are not gamers, which makes it a good candidate for a controller nobody has to learn: move, use, report, kill, map.

On this page: 9 sections

1. The layout, control by control
2. How the layout thinks
3. Among Us controls on a Mac: keyboard and controller
4. The iPad version: press its buttons from the pad
   1. Step 1: Fix the game's layout
   2. Step 2: Point Use at the game's Use button
   3. Step 3: Do the same for the rest
5. Among Us controller support: controller or keyboard
6. If your controller is not working in Among Us
7. Get it in two clicks
8. Among Us controls: every button and the key it sends
9. Questions

The layout, control by control

How the layout thinks

• Move. The left stick and the D-pad both move.
• Act. Use (E) on the bottom face button, Report (R) on the right, Kill (Q) on the left.
• Map. Tab on the top, which also opens the sabotage map for impostors.
• Menu. Escape on Options.

Two additions worth making:

• Chat. Voice is usually Discord. Text chat needs a keyboard. Type Text outputs on a chord cover the things people type: where, vote, skip, and the accusation of your choice.
• Adaptive play. Movement on one stick and the four actions on four switches. It is a party game a lot of people can join.

There is nothing else in the game, so the whole thing fits on one hand.

Among Us controls on a Mac: keyboard and controller

In GeForce NOW or Xbox Cloud Gaming the game takes a controller on its own, so you may not need a layout there at all. The iPad version is built for touch, and I have not tested whether it takes these keys on a Mac. Try one bind before you rely on it.

The iPad version: press its buttons from the pad

If your copy has no keyboard option, the keys in the table do nothing in it. It wants taps on its own buttons, and on a Mac a click is a tap. InputConfig can point any controller button, or any key on the Mac's keyboard, at a click on one fixed spot on the screen.

Step 1: Fix the game's layout

Open Among Us and make it full screen, so its buttons stay in the same place.

Step 2: Point Use at the game's Use button

• You: In InputConfig, change the Use row's output from the E key to Mouse Button, Left click. Open that row's click menu, which reads at pointer, choose At a fixed point: use the pointer's position now, and rest the pointer on the game's Use button.
• InputConfig: Speaks a countdown, takes the position after three seconds, and from then on clicks that spot each time you press the button. Holding the button holds the click.
• Check: Press the face button next to a task and the game's Use button responds.

Step 3: Do the same for the rest

Repeat for Report, Kill and the map, each on its own face button. For menus and anything else, put Mouse Motion on the right stick and a plain Left click on a trigger.

If the window moves, set the spots again. Keyboard keys work as the input too. A key you bind still does its normal job, which does not matter in a game that ignores the keyboard. I have not played a full match this way yet. Try it in Freeplay first.

Among Us controller support: controller or keyboard

Steam's store page lists full controller support for Among Us, so the game was made to be played on a controller, menus included. A keyboard and mouse work as well, and the choice is yours. On a Mac, use the game's own controller support first when it sees your pad; this layout is for a pad it does not see, or for buttons it will not let you move. Full support listed means the controller is a first-class way to play Among Us.

From Steam's listing, checked in October 2026. Every game's listing is in Mac games with controller support.

If your controller is not working in Among Us

When Among Us does not react to your controller on a Mac, climb this ladder, smallest step first:

1. Check that the Mac sees the controller. Open the gamepad tester and press a button. If nothing lights up there, the problem is the connection, and a controller that is connected but not working covers that first.
2. Expect less inside a wrapper. In CrossOver or the Game Porting Toolkit, Wine passes a controller to Among Us only some of the time, and the keyboard and mouse get through every time. Using a controller with CrossOver games has the checks.
3. Play it from keys. If Among Us still ignores the pad, activate this layout. It sends the keyboard and mouse controls Among Us already reads. The layout works whether or not Among Us ever sees the controller.

Get it in two clicks

1. Get InputConfig free on the Mac App Store, open it, and click Smart Preset Maker on the welcome screen.
2. Search for Among Us and pick it. The layout is created as a preset in your sidebar, named and ready.
3. Press Activate. Every row can be changed afterwards: the editor's Scan button rebinds any control the moment you touch it.

To check the controller itself first, the gamepad tester shows every button and stick live in your browser.

Among Us controls: every button and the key it sends

The Sends column is Among Us's default keyboard and mouse controls, as this layout expects them. If you changed a key in the game's settings, change the same row in InputConfig.

Button names follow the Xbox / PlayStation pair shown in the editor, so A / Cross is the bottom face button on either pad. On a Switch Pro Controller the bottom button is labeled B; the mapping still fires on position.

Questions

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Updated October 16, 2026