Nintendo Refreshes Nintendo Switch Online App — Here's What's New

With conscionable days to spell earlier Nintendo Switch 2 yet releases connected June 5, Nintendo has revamped its Nintendo Switch Online app, kicking disconnected with a caller name: Nintendo Switch App.

This is simply a important rebrand, not slightest due to the fact that the sanction "Nintendo Switch Online" has agelong been associated with Nintendo's subscription-based online gaming service. Memberships see online functionality, allowing you to vie oregon cooperate with friends, arsenic good arsenic a postulation of classical Nintendo games spanning 4 decades, including titles from the NES, SNES, Game Boy, Nintendo 64, and (with the upcoming motorboat of the Nintendo Switch 2) the caller GameCube libraries.

The app's 3.0.1 update not lone drops the "Online" from the name, it besides introduces a refreshed plan to marque it a small much intuitive to use. Nintendo Switch 2 consoles are, of course, present supported, arsenic good arsenic GameChat invitations. You tin besides negociate your friends database from wrong the app, and take to person a notification connected the app erstwhile your friends travel online.

Perhaps champion of each — for me, anyhow — is simply a overmuch amended mode of managing your screenshots and videos, which tin present beryllium uploaded straight to the app.

Here are the afloat spot notes, arsenic elaborate connected the App Store.

Nintendo Switch App Update Version 3.0.1 Patch Notes

• The app has been updated
  • The app sanction has changed from Nintendo Switch Online to Nintendo Switch App.
  • Elements of the app plan person been updated.
• Nintendo Switch 2 consoles are present supported.
  • Screenshots and videos saved successful your console’s medium tin present beryllium uploaded to the app.
  • You tin present person GameChat invitations.
• More person features are present disposable successful the app.
  • You tin present adhd friends via the app.
  • You tin take to person a notification successful the app erstwhile a person comes online.
• Various different tiny improvements and bug fixes person been made.

The highly anticipated Nintendo Switch 2 — which volition diagnostic the rodent controls, of people — is acceptable to debut adjacent week connected June 5. Here's our breakdown of each crippled that's getting a Nintendo Switch 2 Edition, and we besides person a useful database of each OG Nintendo Switch crippled that's thought to person compatibility issues connected Nintendo Switch 2.

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