Nintendo Switch Parental Cont…

A useful tool to monitor your child’s usage and apply restriction if needed. Would be better if you could apply timings to each profile for each user rather than for the whole console.

I can’t use the app and they didn’t support with help .

The level of functionality of parental controls for the Switch is unacceptable. The play time limit is unfit for purpose. For example it my child wakes up at 4am he wakes me and the whole family up at 5am to ask for more time. I would rather he could have free play 6am-7am so he would be forced to go back to sleep then play for an acceptable amount of time. Similarly I would prefer for him to have 30 mins at 4.30 if he has done his homework. I would like to authorise this with a push notification to my phone. This is not rocket science. All of this functionality is available in iOS parental controls for his iOS devices. The app is also unfit for purpose as it doesn’t allow two parents to control and approve. For example both me and my husband could get notifications to send through extra time from our phones or computers but this functionality is not available. Why? The settings about approved contacts is also completely lazily designed and unfit for purpose. You can only have rudimentary settings here which is dangerous and negligent of Nintendo. The options available are allow new contacts or not allow new contacts. Why? With iOS I can specify allowed contacts for my son and approve all new contact requests that come through with a simple notification. Why does this not exist for Switch? This is such lazy and sloppy design. Get some parents to actually use the app and they like me would have probably taken five minutes to feed this back. I am sure parents work in your UX team. How have they not identified the very very poor and dangerous functionality of Parental Switch controls. This shows something is fundamentally wrong in leadership and design at Nintendo. You should be optimising the product yourselves to protect children. I won’t be buying any more Nintendo products and will be swapping out with products that have acceptable levels of safety for the parental controls. If I had known how bad and unfit for purpose the level of control of the parental settings is I would have never bought a Nintendo for my son in the first place.

Parental controls do not block switch at the end of limit

The time limits function works great and helps manage screen time with my kids. However, for the past couple of days the time played functionality, which I use to monitor my kids’ game time, has stopped working.

Great app, very useful. However could be better if you could set time limits individual to each account, but overall very useful, good at solving arguments.👍

Its ok but when my son plays fortnite he wants to play with his friends to add his friend theres a pin code when i put it it says incorect pin vut its the pin from the settings but fix this plss

It’s good you can set limits for each day, but it would be so much more helpful if the limits could be applied to individual accounts on the switch, rather than the console time. It means I have to set the limit every day, and then extend it for the next child’s account (providing their whole time allowance in one go). Then I have to put it back to normal in time before next week. Such a faff! Whitelisting certain games is a good idea too for age limits, but it really doesn’t let you see what it allows the child to do on that game.

Good for my child to rest in peace without playing video games all of the time.

It would be useful if it had a start time so that you can set a range of time in which kids can play. You also can only set a time limit per console rather than per profile, it seems, which is not ideal if you have multiple children sharing the same console. You can set age appropriate access levels which is key. On the whole, howeve, very rudimentary and only just sufficient.