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.

Great to be able to do this. But I would add a 'zero' limit to the every day options. You can set zero by adding separate limits per day but I want to be able to fully lock the console in one action. And unhelpfully, the option just before 15 mins is 'None' which you could interpret either as No Time, or No Limit. It's the latter but the number of times I've fully unlocked the console when I wanted to block it is far too many.

Would be better if it also told you what time the game was played, not just for how long. You can limit when it shuts off but not when it turns on. so it turns on at 6am. not very helpful when you have a screen addicted kid who's always trying to sneak it. I have to turn every day back to 0 minutes. it would be better if you had a turn on and off time

What’s new

・ Added "Dark Mode." The app's display will automatically switch according to your smart device's settings.
・ "Extend Daily Play-Time Limit" now includes "1 hour," in addition to the 5-, 15-, and 30-min. options.
・ "Detailed Bedtime Settings" now allows daily customization of the time that play is allowed to begin each day of the week.
・ You can now freely rearrange the displayed order of supervised systems.
・ Other improvements have also been made.