The Switch 2 will finally back up screenshots to the cloud

Nintendo has updated its Switch mobile app with caller features and functionality for the Switch 2. | Screenshots: Nintendo Switch App

Nintendo released an update to its Switch Online mobile app yesterday renaming it to simply the Nintendo Switch App and adding enactment for the Switch 2, which releases connected June 5th. Alongside Switch 2 enactment comes caller features, first announced successful aboriginal April, making it easier to entree screenshots connected different devices and adding mobile notifications for GameChat invitations.

The astir utile update to the app is that the Switch 2 volition beryllium capable to upload screenshots and videos to it done the cloud. The Switch 2’s medium volition person a caller Upload to Smart Device enactment for manually sending screenshots, arsenic good arsenic an automatic uploads diagnostic wherever the 100 astir caller screenshots and videos connected the console volition beryllium disposable successful the app.

Files volition beryllium stored successful the unreality for up to 30 days, Nintendo says, but tin beryllium downloaded from the app to a mobile device’s camera rotation to beryllium saved permanently. If you effort to upload much than 100 screenshots and videos, the oldest screenshots volition beryllium overwritten. A escaped Nintendo Account is required to usage the feature, but a paid Nintendo Switch Online rank is not.

Sharing screenshots from the archetypal Switch was a much cumbersome process requiring a smartphone to scan a QR codification connected the console and past link to a impermanent Wi-Fi web to transportation the files wirelessly.
The Nintendo Switch App volition besides fto you spot erstwhile you’ve been invited to a GameChat telephone and includes the Zelda Notes features for the Switch 2 editions of Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom. Although not progressive successful the app yet, the diagnostic volition see achievements, spoken directions to areas you people connected a map, and entree to further Princess Zelda callback memories.

The Nintendo Today app besides received an update contiguous with caller features including the quality to nexus its calendar with your ain calendar app truthful you tin spot upcoming Nintendo events and crippled merchandise dates arsenic portion of your idiosyncratic schedule. There’s besides the enactment to favourite contented and filter quality truthful you lone spot what you’re funny in, and the app present lets you zoom successful connected images.