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More than five years after the launch of the Nintendo Switch, the console has gotten a major quality of life feature. Added in today's 14.0.0 firmware update was the "Groups" feature, which gives users the ability to collect their games and organize them into folders. If you have more than 12 games, you can navigate to the All Software tab, where you'll be prompted to select which games you'd like to put into a group, and then name it. The Switch can have up to 100 different groups with up to 200 individual games within each group.

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Ver. 14.0.0 (Released March 21, 2022)​

"Groups" feature was added to the All Software menu.

• You can now create groups of software to help organize your software titles.
• Making groups for different game genres, developers, or whatever you’d like to organize by may make it easier to find the application you want.
  • Up to 100 groups can be created with a max of 200 titles per group.
• The button to proceed to the "All Software" screen is displayed only when there are 13 or more software title icons on the system.
• For more information, see How to Create Groups of Software.

Bluetooth® Audio volume behavior was changed.

• You can now adjust the volume of Bluetooth audio devices using either the Nintendo Switch™ console or through volume control buttons on the Bluetooth audio device.
  • The Bluetooth audio device must support AVRCP profiles for these changes to work.
• The volume displayed on the console will reflect the Bluetooth audio volume when using the device’s control buttons.
• The maximum volume output for some Bluetooth audio devices has been increased.
  • When first connecting a device, volume will be reduced to avoid sudden loudness.
  • For more information, see How to Pair and Manage Bluetooth Audio Devices.

UPDATE March 22nd: If you are running Atmosphere, it is recommended by SciresM that you avoid updating until the newest version is released as there are a number of changes in 14.0.0. It is currently in the works but will take a bit longer than most minor updates.

Screenshot courtesy for @Alexander1970

 

[HarveyHouston]

FINALLY! A folder feature on the Switch. PlayStation has it. Xbox has it. Steam has it. Even the Wii U and 3DS had a folder feature. It takes the Switch FIVE FREAKIN' YEARS to finally implement it!

 

[lordelan]

Why not on the main home screen? Screw you Nintendo, just screw you.

 

[such]

I see you're early with your April Fools' joke this year, but it is quite amusing nonetheless.

 

[ut2k4master]

FINALLY! A folder feature on the Switch. PlayStation has it. Xbox has it. Steam has it. Even the Wii U and 3DS had a folder feature. It takes the Switch FIVE FREAKIN' YEARS to finally implement it!

the xbox implementation is really bad though

 

[Takokeshi]

They'll usually bump the key revision and fuse count in updates that have security fixes, then shortly after they'll release an sdk update with authoring tools updated for the new key revision.
If there aren't many games that use key revision 0b, then not a ton of developers were running the sdk versions with authoring tools that default to 0b when they were creating their master roms.

It doesn't help that 0C came literally the next update after 0B lol. I guess that wasn't enough time for anyone to actually use it.

 

[godreborn]

FINALLY! A folder feature on the Switch. PlayStation has it. Xbox has it. Steam has it. Even the Wii U and 3DS had a folder feature. It takes the Switch FIVE FREAKIN' YEARS to finally implement it!

The ps5 doesn't have it nor does it have themes either.

 

[spotanjo3]

It is kinda late, isn't it ? Better late than never, I know but still.

 

[godreborn]

It is kinda late, isn't it ? Better late than never, I know but still.

Do you know if atmosphere has been updated? I plan to sell my two limited edition switches and I wonder if I should be careful not to update.

 

[ut2k4master]

Do you know if atmosphere has been updated? I plan to sell my two limited edition switches and I wonder if I should be careful not to update.

not yet, but it will be in a matter of days/weeks

 

[Marc_LFD]

It is kinda late, isn't it ? Better late than never, I know but still.

Yes, only five years later.

 

[godreborn]

not yet, but it will be in a matter of days/weeks

I just updated my main switch, the oled one. I'm going to sell my second micro sd card for it, since I have it backed up, and I don't really need every game at the same time. I found something interesting where you can filter by only downloadable games. since I'm all digital, this works very well. I can now just have what's on the micro sd card showing up instead of everything.

 

[SuperDan]

5 years to get folders.... What about themes.. Ive only had my oled switch since Xmas so I'm new to the switch.. & I really enjoy it playing it loads... But the layout really sucks maybe in another 5 years it will look more modern

 

[eyeliner]

my sweet atelier games finally in some kind of logical order

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I just wish you could open the groups from the main menu instead of having to go to all apps first, gotta love the nintendo caveat™

That's dedication!
I'm not sure if I should congratulate you or being worried about you.


Are you OK?

 

[HRudyPlayZ]

Finally, a meaningful update!
Now, it's still far from being good, way worse than what was on the Wii U/3DS.
The menu is still a boring box design anyone could've done in MSPaint, no music, no life, no nothing.
You still have to use the cluttered "All games" menu instead of, you know, actually using the home menu.
Not to mention, it lacks themes.
Just give us back the entire Wii U menu already

Btw guys, you should check out uLaunch if you have a modded system.

 

[SodaSoba]

A little late but I guess I'll take it.
I'm assuming they'll add groups to main menu in the future, it really does depend where the details and layouts for groups are based from. If it takes from common.szs then we might be able to make progress a lot more but if it's based within allapps.szs I guess we are limited.

Edit judging by screenshots it looks like groups is an applet interesting.

 

[Marc_LFD]

5 years to get folders.... What about themes.. Ive only had my oled switch since Xmas so I'm new to the switch.. & I really enjoy it playing it loads... But the layout really sucks maybe in another 5 years it will look more modern

Hey, be patient. Another five years.

 

[mrdude]

New atmosphere release in 3... 2...

:-), I've already made the FW/ES/NFIM sig patches, so just waiting for Atmosphere to be released so I can make the patches for that, then finally - folder support!

 

[Alexander1970]

New atmosphere release in 3... 2...

@SciresM highly recommends to wait.😉

There are "major Changes"....

Source: WiiDatabase (german)

 

[impeeza]

Do you know if atmosphere has been updated? I plan to sell my two limited edition switches and I wonder if I should be careful not to update.

https://github.com/Atmosphere-NX/Atmosphere/releases

 

[AngryCinnabon]

Jokes about this borking custom themes aside this is an update that was needed for like 5 years dammit.