Nintendo Switch Parental Cont…
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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
◆ 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
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Ratings and reviews
4.7
147K reviews
Erika Do
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August 30, 2024
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.
38 people found this review helpful
Chip Birks
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March 11, 2026
Decent app. I hate that I can't give time per user account, instead of the device as a whole. Also the add time feature never works correctly the first time, I have to go through a add time, cancel extension, add time, cancel extension cycle every time. Sometimes 3 or 4 times before it actually takes. It's a bit ridiculous. In the end, I get the results I want, but it's never easy, and never just works the first time. It could be way better.
Richard MacAleese
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March 23, 2026
I like the feature that lets you see historical usage over time. However if you have multiple users that share a console and each play single player games, and you want to create time limits for each of them, you simply can't. There is no way to do this currently in the app or on the Nintendo Switch Parental Controls website. Then on top of that, the "Extend Playtime" option gives weird options for the amount of time to extend by, and you can't just type a number in. That's super lame.
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.
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About the developer
NINTENDO CO., LTD.
11-1, KAMITOBAHOKODATECHO, MINAMI-KU
KYOTO, 京都府 601-8116
Japan
+81 50-1722-6997
