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.

User Agreement: https://accounts.nintendo.com/term_chooser/eula

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.

Better than nothing but not useful for more than one user. If you have multiple children using the same switch then you're not able to set time limits for each child's account. Time limits are set per device. Another limitation, the app keeps track of how long a user played a game but it doesn't keep track of when they played. In terms of a parental control app, this app has limited functionality and capabilities. I am surprised and disappointed Nintendo is under-delivering on this app.

this app is good for setting up certain restrictions for kids or even for yourself if you're one to play for too long. but it would be better if the restrictions were profile based instead of device based. We share our Switch and Switch 2. Of course, its not difficult to put in the PIN when I want to play a game thats restricted on the console.

What’s new

・ You can now find more information whenever a parental-controls PIN is successfully entered on a system by accessing Play Activity in this app.
・ You can now receive notifications whenever a PIN is entered by turning on PIN Entry in the app's notification settings.
・ Other small feature improvements and bug fixes have also been made.