Nintendo Switch 2: Remember to do this at the first start, otherwise it will be too late!

The Switch 2 has been available since June 5, 2025, and some small surprises surface for the first buyers. In addition to some manufacturing defects, especially at the level of certain screensa step is surprisingly reserved only for the very first start: the transfer of data from the Switch 1 to the new Nintendo console. A situation that can quickly become problematic, here is why!

Do not jump the data transfer from the switch 1 to the switch 2

If you plan to recover your SWITCH 1 data after the first start of the Switch 2 – especially to play the new one as quickly as possible Mario Kart World – You will be well disappointed.

Android Authority indeed shared that this option was absent from the console parameters afterwards. Although it is possible to recover the backups, the other data from your previous Switch cannot be restored after the first restart.

Result: a restoration is compulsory to find the dedicated transfer option, available at the first start – which implies the deletion of all the data on the Switch 2.

To do this, you have to go to the settings, access the menu Consolethen select at the bottom, Reset options.

For information, the transfer of data from the Switch 1 to the Switch 2 allows us to recover:

• All users
• The list of installed games, which will re-tackle and will automatically settle at the end of the transfer
• Backups
• Screenshots and saved videos
• Some parameters
• Parental control

To understand how to use this function to recover all this information between your two Nintendo consoles, Go to our full tutorial !