{"id":343478,"date":"2025-08-14T09:16:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T09:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/343478\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T09:16:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T09:16:17","slug":"nintendo-updates-its-parental-controls-mobile-app-for-switch-and-switch-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/343478\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Updates Its Parental Controls Mobile App For Switch And Switch 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"youtube-watch\"><a title=\"Watch This Video on YouTube\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PvsYm4vfM6Y\" class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch on <strong> YouTube<\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"youtube-sub\">Subscribe to <a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/nintendolife?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\">Nintendo Life<\/a> on <a class=\"sub-button external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/nintendolife?sub_confirmation=1\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube830k<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nintendo recently updated its music app on mobile devices, and this week it has released a new update for its Switch Parental Controls app.<\/p>\n<p>According to the patch notes, this bumps it up to <strong>Version 2.2.0<\/strong> and it comes with a handful of updates to improve the overall experience. One, in particular, improves the &#8216;Play Activity&#8217; display. Here are the full patch notes (via the App Store):<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo Switch Parental Controls &#8211; Version 2.2.0 (August, 2025)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>The play activity display has been improved.<\/li>\n<li>The &#8220;Parental Controls Tips&#8221; section has been added to the bottom of the alerts menu.<\/li>\n<li>Other small improvements have also been made.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>This follows a major update in May, adding Switch 2 support to the system &#8211; including settings related to the GameChat feature, and various other extended features like the ability to extend daily play-time limits:<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo Switch Parental Controls &#8211; Version 2.0.0 (May, 2025)<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo Switch 2 systems are now supported<\/p>\n<p>\u30fb Nintendo Switch 2 systems can now be linked to the app.<\/p>\n<p>\u30fb Settings related to the GameChat feature have been added. If you allow your child to use GameChat, you can manage which friends they&#8217;re approved to chat with and decide when they can use video chat.<\/p>\n<p>More settings and features for supervising gameplay have been added<\/p>\n<p>\u30fb Extend the daily play-time limit.<\/p>\n<p>\u30fb Set play-time limits for linked systems as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u30fb View more information under Play Activity.<\/p>\n<p>\u30fb Get alerts that provide helpful hints for supervising your child&#8217;s gameplay.<\/p>\n<p>\u30fb Link up to eight Nintendo Switch 2 or Nintendo Switch systems to the app.<\/p>\n<p>Other small improvements and design updates have been made as well.<\/p>\n<p>As a refresher, this app is designed to allow parents to monitor their child&#8217;s use of the Switch and Switch 2. It allows users to set play-time limits, customise online features including communication, set limits online, and decide what games can be played.<\/p>\n<p>This update follows on from the announcement of a new Mario line for kids last week, which includes a new app for Switch and mobile devices. You can find out more in our recent coverage:<\/p>\n<p>Do you use apps like this at all? Have you used this one before? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text source\">[source <a class=\"external\" title=\"External Link: https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/nintendo-switch-parental-cont\/id1190074407\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/nintendo-switch-parental-cont\/id1190074407\" target=\"_blank\">apps.apple.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"avatar\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753583769_175_avatar.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Liam Doolan\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Liam is a news writer and reviewer across Hookshot Media. He&#8217;s been writing about games for more than 15 years and is a lifelong fan of many iconic video game characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Watch on YouTube Subscribe to Nintendo Life on YouTube830k Nintendo recently updated its music app on mobile devices,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[547,123,270,53,16,15,8642],"class_list":{"0":"post-343478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-mobile","9":"tag-nintendo-switch","10":"tag-nintendo-switch-2","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-updates"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115026368017455954","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}