Nintendo Switch’s Latest Update Improves however Doesn’t Fix Its Wonky Bluetooth Headphone Support

Back in September of 2021, Nintendo launched the 13.0.0 firmware replace for the Switch that lastly added native help for wi-fi Bluetooth headphones. It was removed from good, nonetheless, so with the brand new 14.0.0 Switch replace launched final evening, Nintendo has improved the console’s performance with wi-fi headphones.

When the 13.0.0 replace arrived, it didn’t take lengthy to determine why Nintendo had held out on Bluetooth headphone help for therefore lengthy. The Switch makes use of Bluetooth connectivity for its wi-fi Joy-Con controllers too, and with Bluetooth headphones linked, the console is simply ready to hook up with two controllers at a time, limiting what number of gamers can be part of within the enjoyable with video games like Super Mario Party. Bluetooth headphones additionally needed to be disconnected every time two close by Switches had been wirelessly linked to one another for multiplayer gaming.

Does the 14.0.0 Switch replace treatment these shortcomings? Unfortunately not. But as a comfort prize, the quantity degree of linked Bluetooth headphones or audio system can now be adjusted utilizing the Switch’s quantity buttons or devoted controls on the Bluetooth audio system itself, together with on-screen indicators of quantity changes when that’s performed. The replace additionally guarantees to extend the quantity of some Bluetooth audio units, so players might be extra successfully startled when an attacking Pokémon screams at them in Pokémon Legends: Arceus.

Another helpful function in the 14.0.0 firmware is the introduction “Groups,” permitting customers who’ve downloaded numerous video games over the console’s five-year lifespan to raised arrange them on the Switch’s dwelling display screen.

Up to 100 totally different group folders might be created and full of as much as 200 video games, and every folder might be assigned a customized label. Creating and sorting app icons into the Groups doesn’t look as simple as it’s on smartphones—Nintendo has provided a step-by-step how-to here—but it surely’s nonetheless a welcome improve that additionally does away with the “All Software” button that now solely seems on the house display screen when there are “13 or more software title icons on the system.”