diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 5bad8b01b..04c6d9c66 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ Other fixes:
  - Qt: Fix running proxied video if it gets pushed to the main thread
  - Qt: Fix game display sometimes disappearing after closing load/save state screen
  - Qt: Fix cancelling pausing before the frame ends
+ - Qt: Fix gamepad event dispatching (fixes mgba.io/i/1922)
  - SM83: Simplify register pair access on big endian
  - SM83: Disassemble STOP as one byte
  - Wii: Fix crash on unloading irregularly sized GBA ROMs
diff --git a/src/platform/qt/InputController.cpp b/src/platform/qt/InputController.cpp
index 8c7d10ba4..481465c0e 100644
--- a/src/platform/qt/InputController.cpp
+++ b/src/platform/qt/InputController.cpp
@@ -649,7 +649,7 @@ void InputController::sendGamepadEvent(QEvent* event) {
 	} else {
 		focusWidget = QApplication::focusWidget();
 	}
-	QApplication::sendEvent(focusWidget, event);
+	QApplication::postEvent(focusWidget, event, Qt::HighEventPriority);
 }
 
 void InputController::postPendingEvent(GBAKey key) {