The Switch Has a Mobile App With Relatively Solid Parental Controls
While there’s the normal Nintendo Switch Online app that lets you control your console, but games and download titles from afar, the lesser-known app available to the console is much more intricate and fine-tuned for parents who want to find out how much time their kid has spent on Fortnite. It’s available on both iOS and Android, and it accurately documents how much time a specific user on the console has been playing per day and which games they’ve been using.
Parents can set play time limits and regiment it to specific days of the week. It will alarm the user if they’ve been playing too long and it’s time to go to bed, and you can set what games and what online features they might have access to. However, it’s not perfect, and you can’t set limitations per different accounts. Also, if the app gets deleted, so do the restrictions on the console.
