Nintendo Switch 2 System Update 22.5.0 Available — Here Are the Patch Notes

Nintendo has issued a caller strategy bundle update for the Switch and Switch 2, bringing some consoles' firmware up to Version 22.0.5.

The update is simply a comparatively insignificant one, though adds further connection options for the second console's substance to code functionality, and further eShop options connected the Switch 1.

The older machine's eShop has been resdesigned, apt successful a bid to marque it easier to navigate arsenic the store fills up with countless downloadable games. You tin present marque the eShop bespeak your acheronian mode taxable color, and acceptable an entree PIN to artifact entree for anyone who mightiness spell connected an unwanted spending spree.

Another utile summation is the quality to skip forward/back 10 seconds erstwhile watching trailers via the eShop oregon the Switch 1's News section.

Last week, Nintendo mapped retired much of its upcoming merchandise docket for 2026 successful its large Nintendo Direct broadcast — and you tin drawback up with everything that was announced close here.

Upcoming exclusives see Star Fox (June 25), Rhythm Heaven Groove (July 2), Splatoon Raiders (July 23), Fire Emblem Fortune’s Weave (September 17) and Nintendo Switch Sports: Resort (October 22). And past there's Nintendo's mysterious The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake, which is owed retired earlier the extremity of 2026.

Today's afloat spot notes prevarication below:

Nintendo Switch 2 - Version 22.5.0 (Released 15th June 2026)

• Added Dutch and Russian to “Text to Speech” languages successful Accessibility.
• Added Dutch and Russian arsenic languages for “Change Speech ⇔ Text During GameChat” successful Accessibility.
• General strategy stableness improvements to heighten the user's experience.

Nintendo Switch - Version 22.5.0 (Released 15th June 2026)

• The Nintendo eShop layout has been redesigned.
  • The Nintendo eShop colour volition present bespeak the taxable colour if your taxable successful System Settings is acceptable to “Basic Dark.”
• User-Verification PIN tin present beryllium utilized to corroborate erstwhile “Accessing Nintendo eShop” and “Using Saved Payment Methods.”
• Added the quality to rewind 10 seconds/advance 10 seconds with the ZL and ZR Buttons erstwhile watching a afloat surface video successful News oregon Nintendo eShop.
• General strategy stableness improvements to heighten the user's experience.

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