Nintendo Switch Online 2.0 app update adds easier way to copy your friend code

Nintendo has up to date its Swap On-line cellular apps for iOS and Android to model 2.0, which brings a tweaked design in addition to some minor quality-of-life enhancements. The app launched shortly after the Nintendo Swap in 2017. It’s designed to work in tandem with the console, providing options like on-line voice chat that aren’t out there on the Swap itself.

For my cash, the two.0 replace’s most attention-grabbing enchancment is that it affords a neater technique to discover and share your pal code, the cumbersome 12-digit identifier that’s the first means of including pals on Nintendo’s on-line service. As an alternative of getting to manually copy out the code out of your Swap console itself earlier than sharing it with a pal, the replace allows you to simply copy it from the app with a single faucet. Your pal will nonetheless need to manually sort out the 12 digits so as to add you on their console, however at the very least sharing the code is now simpler.

The opposite updates out there with the two.0 replace are extra minor. Nintendo advertises that the app now exhibits which pals are on-line, and in addition allows you to “change your online-status settings.” These are each such primary options that it’s wonderful they weren’t already out there in an app that launched nearly 5 years in the past, however it’s not an enormous shock given Nintendo’s conventional deal with single- and local-multiplayer video games.