Topic: Hold home button?

So my brother was playing Skyrim today on Switch, and he accidentally held the home button too long and... it brought up a sub-menu like some sort of smartphone control panel. My brother was shocked by this. I was shocked by this. We both just kind of stared at it dumbfounded for a second.

Did everyone else already know about this? Has this always been a feature or did it come in an update? If in an update, when did it sneak in there? And if Switch ever gets a web browser can we toss a Google search bar in there?

I knew...but at the same time I forgotten about it. lol

It's been there since launch.

@NoxAeturnus you were shocked by the option to put it into sleep? what have you been doing until now?

Not sleep mode. I was surprised by the menu that allows me to quickly adjust volume, brightness, sleep, and airplane mode while I’m in a game by just holding the home button down for a couple seconds.

@NoxAeturnus I've known about it from early days, as I was on the look out for remote volume control.

It’s neat. I feel dumb for taking almost a year to discover it. I really hope they expand some of the functions there, but I’m happy to toggle airplane mode more quickly than backing out and jumping into the menus the hard way.

Actually I think the rest of the mini menu (volume, etc.) was added in an update after launch.

That‘s like the main way I put it into Sleep Mode lol. It‘s super confinient.

Yep this is how I always power off my Switch on the TV. Also I think it's worth mentioning that you can also hold the home button on the controller to power your Switch on. I always do it and it works like a charm because I don't have to reach under my TV to press the power button, instead I just grab my pro controller and I'm all set.