If you don’t want other people to see you’re online when playing your favorite games, you can change your Nintendo Switch settings so as to appear offline.
In this quick guides, we’ll show exactly how you can prevent your friends from seeing your online status.
How Can I Hide my Online Status on Nintendo Switch?
- Step 1 – Open the Home Menu by pressing the Home button
- Step 2 – Select your Friend List
- Step 3 – Tap Settings
- Step 4 – Select the Change Settings option
- Step 5 – Locate the Allow friends to see your online status option
- Step 6 – Select Don’t Allow and confirm the changes.
Alternatively, you can also use airplane mode if you’re playing in handheld. Of course, this method works only if you don’t need an Internet connection to play your games.
Airplane mode disables your Wi-Fi connection and this may not be the right approach for all the games you’re playing as some may requite an Internet connection to work.
This is a very useful option, especially if you’ve got friends that are always asking you to play games with them as soon as they see you’re online. In this manner, you can avoid unpleasant situations where your friends get upset when you don’t want to play a different game.
Playing single player games is really fun and getting all kinds of messages interrupting your gameplay can be pretty annoying.
Moreover, if you want to be alone and make sure nobody interrupts you while playing games, you can also disable friend requests entirely.
When playing Fortnite
If you’re playing Fornite, keep in mind you might still show up online to Epic friends. This is the only game where you can’t actually appear offline to everyone on your Switch.
There you go, you now know how you can tweak your Nintendo Switch settings so as to prevent your friends from seeing you’re online.