Summary: Nintendo is adding some new features to the Switch app, including a much easier way for Switch 2 owners to share in-game screenshots and video clips. The updated version of the app will also add some specific features for Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom.
Sharing a screenshot or a video clip on the Nintendo Switch 2 is going to be incredibly easy thanks to some big changes Nintendo is making to the app. If you’re not familiar with sharing screenshots or video clips from the Nintendo Switch, this might mean little to you. But for everyone else who’s dealt with it before, this is a huge improvement.
To keep it short and sweet, sharing a screenshot from your game on the original Nintendo Switch was a terrible experience, but the Switch 2 will change all that. With the original family of systems, you have to either share it on social media (only Facebook is supported) or you have to store these clips on the microSD card in your system, remove that, and then transfer those files. It’s a crappy, convoluted way to share exciting in-game moments.
Thankfully, Nintendo is tossing all that out the window. With the Nintendo Switch 2, sharing a screenshot from your game will be as easy as launching the new companion app. Now, I say new but it’s not really entirely new. Or should I say, entirely different. This will be an updated version of the existing app. It’s also now going to be called the Nintendo Switch app.
Sharing a screenshot from Nintendo Switch 2 can be done through the app
This works, based on how it sounds, exactly as it does in the PlayStation app. When you take a screenshot or record a video clip from your gameplay, it’ll be uploaded to the Nintendo Switch app. Nintendo Switch 2 users will be able to see these images and video clips and share them directly from the app to other places. That means more than just Facebook. You can send them in texts, Telegram or WhatsApp chats, and even on your X profile. This was removed back in 2024 when sharing from the console itself.
Nintendo also confirmed that the app will show the 100 most recent screenshots and video clips. That’s not quite how Sony does it with the PlayStation app. This lets you see screenshots and captures from the past 14 days as opposed to a hard limit.
Still, Nintendo is giving Switch 2 owners a much better way to share gaming moments. So even if the number is capped at 100, that’s still plenty. Most users are also unlikely to care about that number now that the process has been simplified.
The Nintendo Switch app will also come with a new Zelda Notes feature
Yesterday’s Nintendo Switch 2 Direct offered up plenty of tasty tidbits of information about the new console. Including a unique feature to the Switch 2 version of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom. The feature, called Zelda Notes, will basically assist you in finding certain stuff in the app for a more streamlined play experience.
For example, Zelda Notes can have Princess Zelda speak to you to guide Link to specific areas around the map. You can also upload your blueprints for creations in Tears of the Kingdom. Other players can then use Zelda Notes to download them. Players will still have to pay the resources to create them in their own game.
