Nintendo Switch Parental Cont…

Nintendo Co., Ltd.

About this app

Nintendo Switch Parental Controls™ is a free app that allows you to easily monitor your child's use of the Nintendo Switch 2 or Nintendo Switch system.
◆ A Nintendo Switch 2 or Nintendo Switch system is required to use this app.

■ Set a daily play-time limit
You can set a timer for how long your child can play for each day. You can select different settings for each day of the week, and even set it so that the game is suspended on the system as soon as the play-time limit is reached.

■ Manage your child's GameChat settings
If you allow your child to use GameChat, you can manage which friends they're approved to chat with and decide when they can use video chat.
◆ The GameChat feature can only be used on Nintendo Switch 2 systems.

■ View your child's play activity
You can easily check which games your child plays and for how long. You'll also get a monthly overview of their gameplay activity.

■ Set restrictions based on your child's age
You can set up age-based restrictions on the games your child can play and the features they can use.

Attention:
● To use the Nintendo Switch Parental Controls app, a parent or guardian (aged 18 or above) will need to have a Nintendo Account.
● Purchasing restrictions, including restrictions on purchasing products and services in Nintendo eShop, can be set up in the Nintendo Account settings.
● To make use of all of the features and settings available in the Nintendo Switch Parental Controls app, all linked Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch systems need to be using the latest system version.
● For details about the GameChat feature, please visit support.nintendo.com.

Ratings and reviews

Really bare bones controls. You can set hourly limits on a console, and you can set an alarm for bedtime, and you can see a general idea of how much of each game was played each day, but that's it. It's unclear how well these settings work. For example, I set bedtime at 8pm, but when I look at the time played, it has red text saying the game was played past the set time. It doesn't say when the hours happened, so I can't know if she went over by five seconds or somehow kept playing for an hour.

I like this app very much, once you have it set up it's fairly easy to navigate and control play time restrictions. the reason why I don't leave five stars is it's a bit frustrating setting the individual times for each day of the week when you first get the app, you've got to painstakingly scroll and save the right date and time one by one, because if you do all of them all at once it won't save and you got to start over. that and making a parent account was a little tricky.but it's great after

I loved this app until the update that happened with the Switch 2 release. We have a Switch 1 and 2. The time extension is only 30 minutes at a time and makes adding an extra 2 hours for 1 day very clunky and frustrating! If I could delete this app and use something different I would!! Please return the time extension process back to the old way that made an extension an easy process, not repeating the same process of extending 30 mins at a time, 4 times just to give my children 2 extra hours!

What’s new

・ Improved the Play Activity display.
・ Added tips to the bottom of notifications.
・ Fixed behavior that allowed the menu to slide when setting the time.
・ Other improvements have also been made.