If you're still making use of Switch Online mobile app, and happen to be using an older device, you might want to read on.
As highlighted by My Nintendo News, Nintendo's latest version of the app (Version 2.9.0) will no longer support iPhone users running on anything below iOS 15. The latest version of the Switch Online app also requires Android users to be running on "Android 8.0 or later". Here's the official update from Nintendo about this:
Nintendo: "We have started distributing version 2.9.0 of the smartphone app ``Nintendo Switch Online.'' With this update, the operating environment has been changed as follows. Operating environment after change: iPhone/iPad/iPod touch with iOS version 15.0 or later, Android device with Android OS 8.0 or later"
This is all standard procedure nowadays with game apps like Pokémon GO also previously phasing out support for older operating systems on mobile devices.
If you haven't used Nintendo's Online app before, it's designed to enhance the Switch Online experience with game-specific services including the ability to voice chat during online play. It also supports a range of titles like Splatoon 3, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, and Animal Crossing: New Horizons.
Have you used this mobile app on your device previously? Does this latest update impact you? Let us know in the comments.
[source twitter.com, via mynintendonews.com]
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I abhor the insinuation that my decade-old iPhone is now "vintage".
@Sisilly_G Somehow that fit's perfectly with your username
There's a mobile app? What's it do?
Edit: never mind, I finished the article. Yup, that happened.
OH NO!
Anyways...
Oh right, there's a Switch mobile app.
Yes, I have it but, no, I don't use it. Why do I do this?
I only use it to check the splatoon 3 schedule very convenient.
Switch 2, please have voice chat.
Can't even remember the last time I updated me Moto G Stylus...Weird.
I had no use for the NSO app until Splatoon 3. Being able to make widgets with the stage schedules for various modes so that I can check without opening the game or the NSO app for that matter. Otherwise I would say the app’s completely useless, but I find this feature very satisfying.
@UltimateInkling yeah i have the widget, which actuallyu makes me cheerful when i see it often...
I do wonder btw.. if nintendo saw a discord world before other people, since we now see (in my bubble no body using playstation voice chat anymore, but discord only...
I used it to play NSO games online with family. They're not online gamers so they don't have discord or whatnot so it was indeed the easiest workaround to have voicechat on for everyone.
That being said my phone is ooooooold as heck and I think 8 is the newest android version it can update to. So yeah android 8 is probably not too much of a requirement.
Used to report squid parties & whatnot in my Splatoon 2 matches.
Aside from that, I used it once when some kid added a few random players he came across in MK8 & wanted to use the voice chat.
Had upgraded phones since then & now that 2-factor verification whatever thing keeps the app locked.
Have barely used the app myself and while this isn't great news it's to be expected to eventually see it discontinued for some older models, it happens all the time on mobile - one of the many reasons why I much prefer gaming on actual consoles (mostly Nintendo ones in my case unsurprisingly) most of the time.
My ultra cheap moto g power is Android 11 so I've still got some time. Not that it would be a huge letdown if I lost this app.
I’d really love to know the numbers on how many people are still using this dreadful app.
Planned obsolescence marches on!
I've used this app very seldom, mostly for Splatoon 3 related stuff and occasionally for Animal Crossing when it was relevant. Never used the voice chat when Discord is easier and serves the same purpose.
The app is worse than the eshop itself. If you click on a game then want to go back it takes you to the beginning and you coulda been 4 pages in when you clicked on it. Its frustrating. Never used it for more than 5 minutes.
It's actually kind of funny that Nintendo stopped supporting a version of Android that came out the same year as the Switch. A version which, by the way, not even Google supports and receives no security updates. Now how about they hurry up and start phasing the Switch out and make way for its successor?
I see lots of negative comments about the app. The app is actually quite useful if you have a Japanese account. I get notifications when games on my wishlist go on sale. I'm guessing it doesn't do that in the US or Europe?
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