The Nintendo Switch has been in people’s homes for almost four years, but it looks like the hybrid console could still have a weird trick on the sleeve that many owners haven’t discovered yet.
On the Nintendo Switch subreddit, the user of the antglyforreal site shared a quick fact about the console’s battery indicator visible in the Home menu. It’s not a revelation and it won’t necessarily change the way you use the console, but with so many switch owners who apparently don’t know the feature existed, the post has reached the very top of the subreddit with over 6,000 votes. positive.
So what exactly is this feature? Well, first of all, you need to understand that there are two options for displaying the battery and this can be changed in the system settings. One option displays a battery percentage next to the battery icon, while the other stops it simply.
If you choose to turn off the display, it would make sense to assume that you can never see the exact percentage without going to settings and restarting it. However, as anti-glorious notes, mixing the ZL and ZR buttons makes the system display the percentage for a short period of time, which means you can check it whenever you want, without having to keep the number on the home screen.
As you can see, the percentage appears in a different place than usual, placed just above the battery indicator. It may not be the most interesting feature in the Switch’s arsenal, but we dare say there are a lot of people out there who had no idea it was even possible – nowhere in the console settings is the function mentioned, so why would anyone try?
Did you already know about this wonderful feature? Is this news for you and do you think it might be useful? Let go of your own Switch and share our amazement in the comments below.