The Nintendo Switch smartphone app is getting some excellent new features

While sharing screenshots and videos from the original Nintendo Switch has ever been an excessively analyzable process, it’s going to beryllium overmuch easier for the Switch 2.

During today’s Direct presentation, Nintendo spent a batch of clip talking astir the Switch 2’s caller built-in GameChat functionality that will springiness players a measurement to stock their screens during group video calls. But the institution besides announced that it’s rolling retired an update for the Switch family of systems’ companion smartphone app.

Now simply called the “Nintendo Switch app,” the exertion will proceed to support Nintendo’s aged sound chat characteristic for circumstantial titles for illustration Splatoon 3 and Animal Crossing: New Horizons on the original Switch. But for Switch 2 owners, the Nintendo Switch app will service arsenic the easiest measurement for you to move screenshots and videos from the console onto your phone, computer, aliases internet.

To move screenshots previously, you had to popular a Switch’s SD paper retired from down its kickstand and slot it into different device. You could besides stock images and videos straight to Facebook and, until past year, X / Twitter by linking your Switch to accounts connected either of those platforms. It was besides imaginable to move media consecutive from your Switch to your smartphone by going into the Switch’s Album section, hitting share, and past taking a image of the QR codification generated by the console. That past action was arsenic clever arsenic it was cumbersome, but it won’t beryllium an rumor for the Switch 2.

According to Nintendo, Switch 2 users will beryllium capable to entree the console’s 100 astir caller screenshots and videos straight from the smartphone app. Obviously, a Nintendo Account will beryllium required to make this work, but the institution noted that you will not need a Nintendo Switch Online rank to return advantage of the smartphone app’s media transportation feature.

The media transportation specifications unsocial are already a important upgrade for the application, which ne'er felt each that well-integrated into galore of Nintendo’s games. But, arsenic if to stress that it really does spot the exertion arsenic an important portion of the Switch’s future, Nintendo besides announced the forthcoming merchandise of Zelda Notes, a typical group of features designed specifically for the Switch 2 editions of Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears for the Kingdom. Located wrong the smartphone app, Zelda Notes is meant to service arsenic a useful instrumentality to thief guideline you done the Zelda games pinch features for illustration spoken directions to circumstantial locations you’ve marked connected a map. You tin usage Zelda Notes to perceive Princess Zelda callback memories of places she’s been arsenic you guideline Link to them. The exertion will besides springiness players a measurement to stock blueprints for their unsocial Autobuild creations.

Zelda Notes feels for illustration a very smart measurement to get group excited astir coming backmost to 2 older games galore group person already spent rather a spot of clip playing. It’s benignant of chaotic to deliberation of Nintendo’s smartphone app being 1 of its much promising Switch reveals, but these kinds of surprises are really you support things interesting.