Nintendo Switch Parental Control

The Android app Nintendo Switch Parental Control allows parents to monitor the activity of their young kids while playing on Nintendo's new video console.

Control your kids' activities on their Nintendo Switch

One of the biggest issues parents face when it comes to their children's video games has to do with how much time they spend in front of their video consoles or computers and how they use them. And Nintendo just released its crossover between a portable and a desktop video console, dubbed Nintendo Switch Parental Controls, which looks like it's going to be the next big thing to be developed by the Japanese company, regardless of its price. To help parents with the above-mentioned problem, they have also released a child activity monitoring tool that works on both Android smartphones and iPhones.

Nintendo's parental control application

Is my son or daughter spending too much time in front of the console? What are his favorite video games? Are they appropriate for his age? All these questions that every parent has been asking can now be answered thanks to Nintendo Switch parental controls. This application takes advantage of the connectivity of this new video game system and synchronizes it with smartphones and tablets through a user account. From there, any adult can take control of the content played and the video games used by the youngest members of the household.

Downloading this APK offers you three basic and essential functions to monitor all the activities that take place on the video console:

• Monitoring the length of game sessions: Ability to set a specific time limit for games, show notifications when this limit is reached and put the console to sleep if your child goes too far. It also offers you the possibility to check the time played.
• Know What's Been Played: It shows reports on the video games that have been played lately and the time spent on each one of them. It offers daily and monthly summaries with the ability to send automatic notifications.
• Safe Play Environment: A safe play environment is established based on the child's age by restricting the use of certain titles and adjusting the video console features to the appropriate age group.

Nintendo's approach to establish a parental control system seems logical considering that other platforms like Google, YouTube or Chrome have already done it, as well as operating systems like Android and Windows 10. It's normal considering how difficult it is to control the consumption of certain online content through WiFi connections or in-app purchases over the Internet.

Requirements and further information:

• Minimum operating system requirements: Android 4.4.